Ben Tarnoff.
Stimulating the US economy is one thing, reforming it is something else. President Biden has been bold on the first, with record re-start borrowing. But he’s sounding still bolder this month with an executive order really to redesign an unregulated, digital playing field that took its own ungainly and mismatching shape over the last two or three decades. The missing pieces are competition and regulation, Mr. Biden says. Monopoly power, pricing, and profits are the real monsters in a mess that could kill the country. That’s shorthand. But Biden’s people say there’s an “intellectual revolution” behind his remedies. It’s that revolution we mean to tease out and test this radio hour. How bad is bigness itself? Do the damages in dollars and cents have to be spelled out? Do the Biden remedies meet the Ralph Nader test?
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Biden unveils sweeping effort to counter corporate consolidation
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published : 10 Jul 2021 at 07:45
1 US President Joe Biden signed an executive order to promote competition in the economy and bolster Washington s scrutiny of big mergers
NEW YORK - Vowing to reset the economy for the benefit of everyday workers and consumers, President Joe Biden unveiled on Friday a wide-ranging plan to tilt the balance of power away from corporations and towards the little guy.
Biden described the initiative as a shift from what he called Washington s 40-year experiment of letting giant corporations accumulate more and more power as he signed an executive order directing changes on everything from the sale of hearing aids to the disclosure of airline baggage fees.
August 27, 2014
Andrew Cuomo won’t debate either his female, Democrat primary opponent, or his general election GOP challenger. Andy’s dodged repeated calls to face off against either Dem professor, Zephyr Teachout or Republican, Westchester County Executive, Rob Astorino.
Rather than risk arguing policy with a couple of articulate adversaries, the governor has chosen to hide behind his $35 million war chest and use it to: 1) Try to bounce Ms. Teachout from the primary ballot. 2) Unleash a spate of nasty, unfounded smear ads targeting Astorino that are so bad even Democrats are characterizing them as “unusually vicious”.
Having failed to remove Teachout (claiming she was a non-resident for the required number of years) from the September slate, Cuomo now needs to answer two questions. Should he debate her? Would it be wise to hit her with negative advertising?