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Senator Elizabeth Warren is drafting a bill that would call on regulators to retroactively review about two decades of “mega mergers” and ban such deals going forward.

verb_to_trust wrote:Quick go tell Bloomy to stop this corporate persecution!!

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verb_to_trust wrote:Quick go tell Bloomy to stop this corporate persecution!!

oh he already knows I clipped the article from his newspaper

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96583UP wrote:

verb_to_trust wrote:Quick go tell Bloomy to stop this corporate persecution!!

oh he already knows I clipped the article from his newspaper

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96583UP wrote:And here comes Scott Stapp with a solution in search of a problem

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... ga-mergers

Senator Elizabeth Warren is drafting a bill that would call on regulators to retroactively review about two decades of “mega mergers” and ban such deals going forward.

if passed, this would instantly tank markets in the U.S., plunge the U.S. and with it the world into a recession, result in mass layoffs, encourage corporations to re-domicile outside the US to escape this constraint, leading to more U.S. employment problems, and investment capital flight out of the U.S., and make pearl jam have to re-evaluate everything they know about how to ticket their live events

96583UP wrote:And here comes Scott Stapp with a solution in search of a problem

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... ga-mergers

Senator Elizabeth Warren is drafting a bill that would call on regulators to retroactively review about two decades of “mega mergers” and ban such deals going forward.

if passed, this would instantly tank markets in the U.S., plunge the U.S. and with it the world into a recession, result in mass layoffs, encourage corporations to re-domicile outside the US to escape this constraint, leading to more U.S. employment problems, and investment capital flight out of the U.S., and make pearl jam have to re-evaluate everything they know about how to ticket their live events

Federal Communication Commission regulations require TV stations and networks to offer a price referred to as the "lowest unit rate" possible to presidential candidates based on the timing of their ad spot and how likely it is to be "pre-empted" or bumped by a higher-paying advertiser during "political protection" periods, which take place 45 days before a primary and 60 days before a general election, according to the veteran TV sales rep Mike Fuhram.

But none of those considerations apply to PACs' and super PACs' ad purchases, meaning stations can charge virtually as much as they want to PACs and aren't required to offer them the lowest price possible in the weeks leading up to an election.

For someone, like Bloomberg, who plans to purchase a lot of anti-Trump ads, this means he could save a lot of money by buying ads as a presidential candidate instead of through a PAC.

In the 2016 campaign cycle, for example, the Sunlight Foundation found that while Hillary Clinton's campaign was charged just $1,500 per ad to air three spots in the 10:00 p.m. hour on the CBS affiliated station KCCI in Des Moines, Iowa, KCCI charged Right to Rise, the super PAC affiliated with the Republican candidate Jeb Bush, double that amount, at $3,000 per ad, to also air ads during the 10:00 p.m. hour.

If Bloomberg's top priority in the 2020 cycle is to help beat Trump, using his position as a candidate to air as many TV ads as possible for the best price could achieve a lot toward that end.