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Chris DeMuth's State of the Markets for April 2023

Yet Another Value Podcast

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Microsoft's Antitrust Decisions

I think it's interesting to see if this was an example of coordination where the US wanted to stop this. The Europeans had the tools. And so the US administration used a foreign government to act against American citizens and American businesses to stop something they wanted to do. I don't think Microsoft is big enough in the UK, small enough that the political level can say, Hey, we have this process and we have these regulators, we can't handle that. There's some precedent for a total regulatory block becoming redeemable just when the deal and the parties are so important relative to the size of the economy. So yeah, dead deal valuable target moving on.

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