Episodes
30
Latest episode
Jun 2026
Language
EN-US
Contributors at The Sling debate the most pressing competition issues of the day, often joined by a special guest.
Darren and Hal discuss anticompetitive strategies by large gun retailers with Hudson Munoz, executive director of Guns Down America, and author of a new report titled “The Price Is Wrong: How the Gun Industry Fixed Prices, But Fails on Safety.
Darren and Hal interview Spencer Webber Waller about his soon-to-be-released book, Power and Greed: Monopolies, Mergers, and Cartels on the American Stage.
Eric Beinhocker, Professor at Oxford's Blavatnik School of Government, discusses his forthcoming book, Market Humanism, which sets out a new economic paradigm to replace neoliberalism.
Hal and Darren speak with Brian Callaci about his new book, Chain of Command, as well as the impact of AI on labor markets and Brian’s empirical paper on measuring the wage effect of no-poach agreements.
Basel Musharbash of the Antimonopoly Counsel explains the cause of skyrocketing prices for groceries and housing.
Tim Wu, Professor at Columbia Law School, former advisor in the Biden White House is the author of the new book, The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity (2025). Hal and Darren chat about the book, platform competition, and Tim’s New York Times pieces on Meta and the 1st Amendment.
Daniel Boguslaw and Dylan Gyauch-Lewis come onto the show to discuss why the latest revelation of Larry Summers's entanglements with Jeffrey Epstein are different from prior revelations, as well as the extent to which Summers was platformed so out of proportion with how his punditry played out.
Erik Peinert, assistant professor of political science at Boston University, discusses his book, "Monopoly Politics: Competition and Learning in the Evolution of Policy Regimes” and recent LPB Blog Post with Hal Singer and Darren Bush
Hal and Darren discuss remedies in the Google search case with AELP’s Laurel Kilgour.
Darren and Hal discuss the FTC's pending challenge of Meta's acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp with John Newman, former deputy director the FTC's Bureau of Competition.
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