and Does a Biden administration's approach to antitrust law make any sense?

How damaging is it and is big inherently bad we'll discuss all this more on the

special sponsored edition of the editors our regularly scheduled programming

will return soon today's episode is sponsored by the Competitive Enterprise Institute and I'm joined by

Jessica Malugian of CEI, who is director of its Center for Technology and Innovation.

Jessica, thanks so much for joining us. How you doing? I'm very happy to be here.

Awesome. All right, so let's do first things first. Who is Jessica Malusion?

How did you get interested in this area? What do you do at

CEI specifically? Give us a little a little picture. Yeah so I run the

tech programming and a

you know how I got here is probably a question for therapy but

I enjoy defending free enterprise and I suppose I do it on these particular issues

because one million years ago I wrote my honors college thesis on the Microsoft antitrust trial so what that qualifies

you're not a fan I was not a fan was not a fan and many people would think I should have grown and matured and hardened

in that since then but I still remain skeptical of the effort so I think what that

qualifies you to do is work on antitrust and tech in a public policy

outfit in Washington DC so here I am. Yeah all right awesome so obviously the

Federal Trade Commission has a huge footprint in this area so let's go real basic what is the federal

trade commission and why do we have one? The FTC is brought to you like so many bad things by Woodrow Wilson.

He campaigned on it in 1912.

He signed it into law in 1914 and it opened its doors in this month of 1915.

And it's on one side, it's kind of the number one consumer protection cop,

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