372 | CFPB Director Rohit Chopra: Reviving America's Anti-Monopoly Tradition

The Realignment

Saager Enjeti, Technology, Policy, News, Marshall Kosloff, International Relations, Politics, News Commentary, Public Policy, U.s. Politics, National Security, Economics

4.8 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Rohit Chopra, Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and former FTC Commissioner, joins The Realignment. Director Chopra and Marshall discuss the history of America's anti-monopolist tradition, how new FTC Commissioners ended decades of inaction in 2018, the need to aggressively enforce laws on the books, how anti-monopoly policy can create strange ideological alliances, and the lessons from the recent failures of Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank, and First Republic.

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0:00.0	Marshall here, welcome back to the Realignment.
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0:08.4	Hey everyone, welcome back to the show.
0:10.1	Quick note before we dive into this episode.
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0:30.1	we released on Friday, you can go to realignment.supercast.com
0:34.3	or click the link at the top of your show notes.
0:37.4	Today's episode is with consumer financial protection
0:40.2	bureau director, Rohe Chopra.
0:42.3	We are discussing recent remarks he gave at the big
0:45.1	anti-monopoly summit earlier this month,
0:47.6	discussing the future of the anti-monopoly movement from the perspective
0:51.2	of his tenure at the CFPB and the Federal Trade Commission.
0:56.2	The basic idea here is that one of the issues at the center
0:59.6	of the political realignment of our country right now is the debate
1:02.6	over how both left and right will handle corporate power.
1:06.4	There are areas where left and right are just completely not in sync.
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