The president's new power over independent agencies
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🗓️ 29 June 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
The Supreme Court’s ruling Monday expanded presidential power over agencies that would traditionally be viewed as independent, with the Federal Reserve as an exception. What does that mean going forward? Also in this episode, we look at rising transportation costs, infrastructure projects, Comcast’s spinoff of NBCUniversal, and the business of estate sales in Los Angeles.
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| 1:00.1 | There's a lot going on right now. |
| 1:08.1 | Mounting economic inequality threats to democracy, environmental disaster, the sour stench of chaos in the air. |
| 1:14.7 | I'm Brooke Gladstone, host of WNYC's On the Media. Want to understand the reasons and the meanings of the narratives that led us here and maybe how to head them off at the |
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| 1:28.5 | I'm paraphrasing here, but one person's administrative state is another person's |
| 1:34.1 | how the whole American economy works. |
| 1:38.0 | From American public media, this is Marketplace. |
| 1:42.9 | This is Marketplace. |
| 1:54.1 | In Los Angeles, I'm Kyle. |
| 1:59.7 | It is Monday, today the 29th of June good, as it always is, to have you along, everybody. |
| 2:04.5 | A not-at-all-all-hy at all hypothetical question as we get going today. |
| 2:09.9 | Now that the Supreme Court has decided that the president, any president to be clear, |
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