Episode #14: The Last Days of Antitrust Enforcement With Matt & Dave

We look at the flurry of actions taken by the FTC, CFPB, and DOJ Antitrust right before the Trump inauguration.

Welcome to the podcast Organized Money. You can listen to today’s episode with Matt and Dave on Apple, on Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.

We are so happy to be back for Season 2 of Organized Money! A lot has happened since we went away. A lot.

Donald Trump is president, but just before he took office, the heads of the agencies that did most of the governing in the Biden era got to work. The Federal Trade Commission, the antitrust division of the Justice Department and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau finalized a flurry of new rules, lawsuits, enforcement actions, and challenges to the most powerful companies in the country. These were actions that these agencies worked on for years, that they put through just under the wire. It really paints a picture of what we’ve lost—and what we can have again, throughout the executive branch, if people just decide to govern.

On this episode, Matt and Dave do a lightning round of actions from these three agencies in the past three weeks, and explain both why we'll miss this work in the future, and why some of it may just endure.

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You can read the FTC report mentioned in the episode here. Matt did a story that showed the Justice Department’s antitrust division’s accomplishments here. And Dave conducted an exit interview with Jonathan Kanter, now the former head of DOJ antitrust, here.

Another thing we’re going to do for you in season 2 is provide transcripts! Check your inbox for a transcript of this episode tomorrow.

Thank you so much for listening. If there’s a monopoly you’d like us to explore this year, or if you have anything else to tell us, please let us know by leaving a comment or by responding directly to this email.