share planet money The Taxi King 0 listen 20:29 ) 2018 nor Initial Post By Tuesday at 11:59 pm, post to this discussion (by clicking "Reply" below). Your post should: 0 Include a discussion of the ways in which government intervention impacts the taxi industry (and the Taxi King), especially as competition from ride sharing apps such as Uber intensies. 0 Address the question, what are some of the factors that drove up the prices of taxi medallions (as high as $1.2 million as mentioned in the podcast!) in New York City? How is this similar to the practices leading up to the housing bubble and great nancial crisis of 200809? To answer, reference E New York Times article, They Were Canned: How Reckless Loans Devastated a Generation of Tax! Drivers. Feel free to draw on other sources if you would like