Heard Tell w/ Andrew Donaldson for 11MAR22

Gas Prices and Electric Vehicle Push, Earmarks Are Back, FTC Empowered/Expanded, w/guest Andy Jung

Heard Tell for Thursday, March 10th, 2022, is turning down the noise and getting to the information we need about discerning out times and recognizing what causes a crisis before it hits the headlines and becomes a disaster. From foreign policy to domestic partisan politics, the “fuel load” of tomorrow’s raging issues are noticeable today if we take action on them. We turn down the noise on the growing groupthink that high gas prices will drive people towards electric vehicles, and delve into how emerging technology isn’t quite ready to be the be all, end all especially for the working class and below when it comes to the price of admission. Guest Andy Jung of Young Voices joins to discuss the Federal Trade Commission, its history and mission, and why the Biden Administration and others are wanting to use and expand its powers to deal with growing Big Tech issues. But is the FTC the right agency for enforcing things like fair competition law, anti-trust, and consumer harm, and is it bad policy and over extending the FTC to make it regulate things like consumer choice and self-preferencing both online and in store. Andy also explains that the FTC is already — in their own words — lacking the staffing and…