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>To me this makes a lot more sense than the T-Mobile At&t merger that failed to go through. I'm sure that's true. But public interest is not why the T-Mobile A
by TomMckenny 7y ago
>To me this makes a lot more sense than the T-Mobile At&t merger that failed to go through.
I'm sure that's true. But public interest is not why the T-Mobile At&T merger was derailed.
- jessaustin 7y agoDon't leave us hanging, man! With what nefarious interest did the public interest fortunately coincide?
- TomMckenny 7y agohttps://www.businessinsider.com/jared-kushner-cnn-staff-2017-11 https://www.businessinsider.com/jared-kushner-cnn-staff-2017... https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2017/02/17/trump-son--law-tells-time-warner-cnn-concerns/98057476/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2017/02/17/tru... https://www.vox.com/2017/11/11/16637186/kushner-cnn-time-warner-att https://www.vox.com/2017/11/11/16637186/kushner-cnn-time-war... (discussion starts with paragraph starting with "Cohn, a former president of Goldman Sachs") at https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/03/11/the-making-of-the-fox-news-white-house https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/03/11/the-making-of-... Not that I shed any tears for the failed merger (imo AT&T should be broken up further). But the corporate incentives to avoid merger blockage are radically different when anti-trust is used this way.
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