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Podcast: Earn Your Leisure
Episode: Netflix, Warner Bros, and Monopolies: Caleb Silver Breaks Down the Power Moves
Description: In this exclusive Market Mondays clip, Rashad Bilal and Troy Millings welcome back Caleb Silver, editor in chief of Investopedia, to break down one of the biggest stories shaking up the entertainment and financial worlds: Netflix’s potential $72 billion acquisition of Warner Brothers’ streaming assets. Was this deal ever real? And what does it mean for the power dynamics of streaming giants? Caleb Silver explains exactly what a monopoly is, tracing its history from the era of the railroads and the origin of U.S. antitrust laws to today’s streaming wars. The trio discusses how monopolies work, why the go...