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Before its monsanto takeover bayer actually enjoyed a good reputation in the agricultural sector one of its leading divisions was its vegetable seed business under the brand in the netherlands. and here they are cultivated vegetables from high quality seeds without any help from the controversial technology of genetic engineering. like cucumbers bigger than average and very tasty from seeds that fetch maximum market prices but amid beyers quest to acquire monsanto some 30 antitrust regulators worldwide spent 2 years examining the proposed union to see where it might reduce competition. and the...

Purchasing power i don't tell iran. this is the way of business i'm joined on in berlin welcome facebook's new crypto currency libra is under scrutiny from e.u. antitrust regulators according to the financial times the newspaper says the european commission has sought specific information from those of working on the digital currency by a questionnaires on tuesday bloomberg reported that the commission had specific concerns over quote potential anti-competitive behavior related to the libor association so far facebook and the commission have both declined to comment. our financial corresponden...

Antitrust review of the tech giants. what exactly does a review mean? >> right. in this case we're not entirely sure. we've rarely seen the department of justice do this kind of work looking at a big industry like technology. it's really been decades since the doj has done this sort of thing. at least in the eyes of the justice department the goal is to look at search engines and social networks and ecommerce to see if companies have become too big and powerful that they're harming consumers and competition. while the justice department didn't specifically mention amazon, facebook, and google,...

Finance minister bruno lemaire used the opportunity to his counterparts to join france in taxing many of the biggest internet firms. and a cool new lucidly this is an agreement between the g 7 nations would be decisive if we don't reach consensus at this level though over these 2 days it will be very difficult to reach consensus among the 129 members of the o.e.c.d. . shante has a great history of horse racing mr lemaire was treated to a tour of its famous stables with challenges such as leave are on their way the g 7 seems determined to get a head start. in new antitrust regulators will inves...

On the internet after 2009. >> tucker: i was thinking we should have a law against that, but it turns out we already do have a number, we've had them for over 100 years and they ban monopolies for the very reasons you are describing, but no one in congress or anywhere else seems willing to invoke these laws. why is that? >> since the 1970s, we have kind of been enthralled to this philosophy that says the only way to determine if something iy a monopoly is if consumer pricing -- is if you can see changes in consumer pricing, but because google and facebook appear to be free, you don't pay any c...