Nota Bene Episode 116: Challenging The U.S. Big Tech Antitrust Debate Assumptions: A Deep Dive With Thomas Dillickrath And Bill Margeson

The U.S. Senate has introduced legislation that presents dramatic changes to the current state of U.S. antitrust law, driven by the assumption that Big Tech as it has evolved currently constitutes a series of defined market monopolies.  But the Economist recently questions whether that assumption should be reconsidered given the rise in shares of second and third firms in these markets over the past five years. Adding to any reconsiderations is the intensifying and game-changing competition among the Big Tech industries and the abundance of Big Tech newcomers which poses the question of whether the current market structure is really one of hyper-competitive Big Tech oligopolies rather than monopolies.