This is Mesters in Business with Barry Reynolds on Bloomberg Radio.

I know I say it every week, but really, this week I have an extra special guest.

Straight from the White House, Brian Deese is the director of the National Economic Council.

He is essentially the chief economic advisor to the President of the United States.

We spent a lot of time discussing the President's new council on competition,

which is a very, very big deal.

It's going to be a big driver of policy from the executive branch over the next four years.

We really got deep into the weeds.

We talked about everything from farmers to employee contracts, to net neutrality,

to the right to repair your own products that you buy to everything.

Any trust enforcement, it really was a policy wants to light.

If you're remotely interested in economic competition, any trust enforcement,

employee contracts, well, you're going to find this to be absolutely fascinating.

With no further ado, my conversation with the National Economic Council's director,

Brian Deese.

This is Masters in Business with Barry Redholz on Bloomberg Radio.

This week, I have an extra special guest.

His name is Brian Deese.

He is the director of the National Economic Council at the White House,

and essentially the chief economic advisor to President Biden.

Previously, he was the global head of sustainable investing at BlackRock,

and he was President Obama's senior advisor for climate and energy policy.

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