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Contributors at The Sling debate the most pressing competition issues of the day, often joined by a special guest.

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66:52

Slingshot Episode 27

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2025/12/23

Basel Musharbash of the Antimonopoly Counsel explains the cause of skyrocketing prices for groceries and housing.

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Slingshot Episode 26

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2025/12/05

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.

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40:10

Slingshot Episode 25

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2025/11/24

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.

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37:09

Slingshot Episode 24

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2025/10/14

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

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53:19

Slingshot Episode 23

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2025/06/25

Hal and Darren discuss remedies in the Google search case with AELP’s Laurel Kilgour.

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42:11

Slingshot Episode 22

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2025/04/22

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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50:17

Slingshot Episode 21

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2025/03/11

Professor Mehrsa Baradaran, UC Irvine School of Law, discusses her book "The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America" (Liveright/Norton Press 2024) with Hal Singer and Darren Bush.

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41:33

Slingshot Episode 20

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2024/12/24

The Slingshot crew chats with Katie Wells about her new study on the uberization of nursing, as well as her new book “Disrupting DC: The Rise of Uber and the Fall of the City.”

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44:57

Slingshot Episode 19

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2024/12/04

Darren and Hal interview John Farrell, director of Energy Democracy Initiative at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, about his new study detailing the myriad ways in which the monopoly utility model imposes significant costs on society.

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63:43

Slingshot Episode 18

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2024/10/31

Hal and Darren interview Isabella Weber, economics professor at University Massachusetts Amherst, to discuss the impact of inflation on voter sentiment and economic tools outside of monetary policy to address future supply shocks.

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45:18

Slingshot Episode 17

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2024/08/30

Dylan Gyauch-Lewis, who runs the Revolving Door Project’s Economic Media Project, and Luke Goldstein, writing fellow at The American Prospect, discuss price gouging, RealPage and rental markets, and Kroger/Albertson’s with Hal Singer and Darren Bush.

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45:52

Slingshot Episode 16

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2024/07/03

Darren and Hal interview David Berri, professor of economics at Southern Utah University, about David’s new book, Slaying The Trolls. They also discuss Caitlin Clark and the gender-wage gap in basketball, as well as the NCAA's efforts to promote women’s sports.

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45:52

Slingshot Episode 15

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2024/05/03

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60:21

Slingshot Episode 14

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2024/03/29

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55:59

Slingshot Episode 13

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2024/03/09

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58:54

Slingshot Episode 12

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2024/01/30

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49:54

Slingshot Episode 11

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2023/11/16

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54:29

Slingshot Episode 10

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2023/10/11

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37:15

Slingshot Episode 9

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2023/09/28

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55:26

Slingshot Episode 8

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2023/09/09

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