Episode 209 • • 1:55:42 - 1:58:21
209: Escrow Schmeshcrow
Macquarie Bank, Texas Newspaper Acquisitions
Australian investment firm Macquarie Bank purchased 40 local newspapers in Texas and Oklahoma for $80 million. The move is seen as an attempt to silence local opposition to the Trans-Texas Corridor and foreign-owned toll roads, which involve controversial eminent domain seizures of private farmland.