The Urge to Merge: Reclaiming Competition in an Economy of Giants w/ Alvaro Bedoya
Those at the top all know each other. The workers fighting the same fights against them and their monopolies, from taxi drivers to farmers to filmmakers, never meet. This episode’s guest thinks that’s why corporate power keeps winning.
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In this episode, Alvaro Bedoya, former FTC Commissioner, explains how spending his travel budget on farmers, small business owners, and union members turned him into an economic populist. He makes the case for rebuilding the Farmers Alliance model of cross-industry coalitions, shows how…
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