Amazon vs FTC & US Government, How Regulation Affects Consumers, Antitrust, & more w/ Yael Ossowski
On this Heard Tell Good Talks Consumer Choice Center's Deputy Director Yael Ossowski back to the program. Yael walks us through his piece in USA Today about the FTC going after Amazon, how this is just a new version of a long-running debate between government and the biggest retailers/companies around, the difference between good regulation and bad policy, how "the curse of bigness" isn't the same as antitrust or a monopoly, and how legitimate issues of Amazon doing wrong for consumers and employees gets glossed over by government overreach.
All that and more on this edition of Heard…
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