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Hey so nearly 2 years ago @sandeepvaheesan wrote for us as part of the #DayOneAgenda about what an FTC with sufficient will could accomplish through rulemaking on their own authority.
Whaddya know, @linamkhan and the crew have a blueprint!
prospect.org/day-one-agenda…
Whaddya know, @linamkhan and the crew have a blueprint!
prospect.org/day-one-agenda…
Sec. 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act gives authority to identify & prohibit “unfair methods of competition.” We recommended:
-banning noncompete clauses
-banning exclusive dealing "and similar practices that monopolists use to block new rivals, & deprive customers of choice
-banning noncompete clauses
-banning exclusive dealing "and similar practices that monopolists use to block new rivals, & deprive customers of choice
-ending pay-for-delay deals where drug companies pay generic manufacturers to not make cheaper versions of their drugs
-ending patent evergreening to extend exclusivity periods
-ending patent evergreening to extend exclusivity periods
Well.
Good to know at the outset that Biden doesn't want to be a successful president. #DayOneAgenda
Good to know at the outset that Biden doesn't want to be a successful president. #DayOneAgenda
I think the meeting with pundits at the few remaining and rapidly dwindling print newspapers almost offends me more?
The good news is that I will be able to recycle the #DayOneAgenda when the next Democratic president is elected in 2056
Speaking of the #DayOneAgenda, we have three #D1A stories today, bringing the total to around 40.
First, I address Joe Biden's explicit reluctance, stated on a call with civil rights leaders, to use executive authority. I'm sorry he feels that way. prospect.org/day-one-agenda…
First, I address Joe Biden's explicit reluctance, stated on a call with civil rights leaders, to use executive authority. I'm sorry he feels that way. prospect.org/day-one-agenda…
"The #DayOneAgenda is a way for the public to understand the options available to a president.. [Biden] might seethe at the unfairness of voters expecting them to do more than they say they can.. Nobody said life as the leader of the free world was fair." prospect.org/day-one-agenda…
Then, @Marcia_Brown9 has this story related to student debt cancellation: a former Ted Kennedy aide has figured out how to leverage that authority to produce something like free college, as a spur to get Congress to re-imagine higher ed finance prospect.org/day-one-agenda…
Great day at @theprospect begins with a review of several monopoly books by the great @zachdcarter. prospect.org/culture/books/…
"For Lynn and Teachout, the rise of today’s monopolies is not woven into the fabric of capitalism. It is a relatively recent phenomenon, created by specific policies and a particularly lax attitude about antitrust laws." prospect.org/culture/books/…
Then we have @HaroldMeyerson with a #DayOneAgenda piece how the Biden administration can harness the power in an obscure agency—the Wage and Hour Division of the Labor Department. prospect.org/day-one-agenda…
Great set of stories at @theprospect today. As I mentioned earlier, here I am on who Biden needs to fire on the way in the door prospect.org/cabinet-watch/…
This feature from our latest issue by Bob Kuttner is remarkable. It's about the tricky business of lowering the partisan temperature while solving our tremendous challenges, which will ultimately inflame the right even further. Essential reading. prospect.org/justice/healin…
"Fortunately, much of the work of national healing happens not in Washington but on the ground... If we can begin with active listening and acknowledgment of common humanity, the recognition of common interests and political depolarization may follow." prospect.org/justice/healin…
Great lineup today at @TheProspect, starting with a #DayOneAgenda piece! @MaxMoranHi combed through the Biden-Sanders unity task force recommendations and found 277 items that a President Biden could enact on Day One through executive action. prospect.org/day-one-agenda…
Next, this is a great piece from Les Leopold, which looked through mortality statistics in New York City and did regression analysis, finding that the key variable in whether you lived or died from coronavirus was actually income. prospect.org/coronavirus/co…
One of our great interns Shera Avi-Yonah has this piece on the difficulties registering student voters and even determining where they will vote if they're not on campus this fall: prospect.org/civil-rights/t…
There's a giant reporter bias toward legislation. They get to hang out in Congress, talk to competing interests in the House & Senate, count votes.
That's why virtually all press on presidential politics is funneled through legislation.
#DayOneAgenda moves are just no fun.
That's why virtually all press on presidential politics is funneled through legislation.
#DayOneAgenda moves are just no fun.
"Will you enact the plan to dissolve student debt on executive authority under the Higher Education Act" will never get asked, because who wants to cover that, there's not even a bill or a vote or anything
And what this has the effect of is- 1) making people stupider about policy and the function of the presidency, 2) cutting off avenues of public support, 3) removing accountability by funneling everything "a president can do" into the gridlock wood chipper.
Our #DayOneAgenda series continues today with two good ones. prospect.org/day-one-agenda
First, @nataliesurely explains how two statutory provisions could allow the government to seize patents from excessively priced drugs and distribute them to competitors offering a fairer price prospect.org/day-one-agenda…
@nataliesurely Under US Code Section 1498 (eminent domain for patents) and a provision of the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980 called march-in rights, we could lower drug prices and set an example for the entire market prospect.org/day-one-agenda…
