Alvaro Bedoya
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 30 Jun
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That's OK.
I'm still just a schmuck stuck with the loyalists just like you.
So I'm all right.
Yeah, look, so when the Fed was created, it was a year before the FTC, 1913, 1914.
They had protections so that the oligarchs of their days, the John D. Rockefellers, Andrew Carnegie's of the world, couldn't pressure the presidents of those eras to make those institutions bend to their will in favor of their rich friends.
And so going into today, you had two institutions that basically were playing off the same playbook.
The main difference is that one of them, the Fed, primarily does things that central bankers and Wall Street bankers love, which is keep things nice and steady.
The FTC, you know, my old agency, they're the guys who banned Martin Shkreli for life from the pharmaceutical industry.
They were suing Jeff Bezos for ripping off small business owners who are forced to sell on the site.
They're the ones who kept a pharma company from cornering the market on these key cancer tests.
The FTC and so many other agencies like it are the ones that protect regular people from
who are trying to make rent, pay groceries, pay their health insurance and make payroll.
And yet.
Now we see this two tiered system of justice where the bankers get there, that above the fray regulator and the rest of us get stuck with loyalists who can be fired at any time for no reason.
Look at the inauguration.
Let's go back to that crazy image of Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Mark Zuckerberg over the president's shoulder at the inauguration, along with Jeff Bezos.
OK, so who's going to get hurt?
It's the people who those guys are hurting.
So I mentioned Amazon.
You know, they're a monopolist.
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