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When either behaves badly – it is devastating to We the People, when both behave badly – it is cataclysmic for We the People

Big Tech companies are monsters.

T-Mobile’s CEO John Legere and Sprint’s Executive Chairman Marcelo Claure discussed at length their combined company’s plans for 5G deployment if the government approves their merger.

The world last week was rightly agog when Tech uber-giant Apple became the first company on the planet ever to top a $1 trillion market cap.

Apple Sues Qualcomm Over Patent Royalties: “Apple also wants back some of the billions of dollars it claims it was overcharged in ‘Qualcomm’s illegal scheme’ to control the market for mobile phone chips.”

Have you wondered why stocks like Apple, Microsoft and Google continue to make big gains in the U.S. indexes such as the Dow-Jones Industrials? These are the kind of big, successful companies that central banks favor.

The big government cronyism racket – is absurd. It is a disjointed, discombobulated mess of ridiculous ideas and assertions – put forward in steadfast defiance of the fundamentals of the free market and human nature.

Computer giant Apple is currently in a huge intellectual property dispute with tech innovation giant Qualcomm.

A litigation war continues to show IP hypocrisy throughout the world.

Hypocrisy, thy name is Apple.

Who thinks it wise to allow a single company to corner the global market for any set of critical inputs to the global economy — like stocks, bonds, currencies, industrial metals, precious metals, energy resources, grains, food, or livestock — with no regulatory oversight, transparency or obligation to be an honest broker?

The evidence increasingly proves that Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon, companies collectively known as “GAFA,” are the dominant consumer-technology, “edge” platforms/incumbents in their respective communication sector markets of: information, smartphones, social media, and ecommerce. The evidence below shows Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon to clearly be the emerging dominant communications incumbents of the 21st century communications sector ecosystem and that an apparent FCC assumption that “edge” companies cannot be a competition problem is both naïve and erroneous.

In today’s edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, we listen in as Research Fellow and Managing Editor of Budget & Tax News Jesse Hathaway joins AM Tampa Bay radio with Hosts Jack Harris and Tedd Webb. Hathaway joins the show to talk about the Apple vs. FBI encryption debate.