Alvaro Bedoya
@BedoyaUSA
For the little guy. Former Federal Trade Commissioner. Founder @GeorgetownCPT & @EsperanzaDMV.
A man coughing up blood. Men zip-tied face down on a wet floor. CCTV turned off. Men forced to eat off of a chair like animals while handcuffed. Solitary confinement if you complain. This is three paragraphs from a report. It comes days after we learned that detainees in…
Commissioner Gomez is still on the job.
After months of cowardly capitulation to this Administration, Paramount finally got what it wanted. Now it's time for companies, journalists, and citizens alike to stand up and speak out, because unchecked and unquestioned power has no rightful place in America. I dissent. 🧵
I enjoyed listening to @SladeBond's thoughts on the FTC v. Meta trial. I think others will find his comments as insightful as I did. youtube.com/watch?v=jClCh8…
🚨 🚨🚨 “Nearly one in three people are going multiple days without eating, according to the United Nations” “In a video filmed Tuesday inside Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza, families fretted over babies with distended bellies and tiny fists that they clenched as they cried.”…
The thing about the boiling frog is that it really, really doesn’t want to admit it’s getting boiled
When a corporation screws you over, you should have the right to talk to a human about it.
1) "quality of care likely deteriorates in mergers initiated by large chains" 2) "our results show that [private-equity] chain ownership degrades the quality of care more" 3) small mergers by operators may have good efficiencies if they don't concentrate share within a market
When independent nursing homes are bought by chains, the quality of care improves due to more efficient management. nber.org/papers/w33967
Antitrust trials used to go pretty hard. A DOJ lawyer apparently recited this speech verbatim to the jury in the old Socony-Vacuum case (late 1930s):
This is one of those images you instantly know will appear in history books of the future. And people will wonder how we allowed this to happen.
A bill to prohibit the use of surveillance-based price and wage setting is being introduced in the House today. It's called the Stop AI Price Gouging and Wage Fixing Act of 2025. The legislation is being proposed by @RepCasar.
One of the lamentable aspects of RPA is the judicial neutering of the section (2(f)) that allows FTC and other enforcers to go after the buyer power abuses of large chains directly
I'll add two things to the Robinson-Patman Act discourse - Imposing a market power requirement is a way of turning the law into a dead letter - Suppliers can show price discrimination in favor of large buyers is cost justified. If they can't substantiate that, that's on them.
Muddled? You’re citing to a guy whose first source is a *chatbot* that *he prompted.* Billionaire big box stores have the power to force their suppliers to cut them secret deals that stick their competitors with higher prices. That power also lets them jack up their own prices…
I hesitate to post this but since I’m not running for anything or trying to get you to subscribe to a Substack I’ll use this as a chance to say 1) If this president does something illegal to you, don’t go along with it. You should definitely not go along with it if he’s doing it…
CUT OFF THEIR FINGERS AND TOES AND PULL OUT THEIR TEETH. THEN SEND THEM BACK
This is happening right now
Read this account by a British surgeon of treating a woman in Gaza shot by a quadcopter while breastfeeding her child in a tent and then try to imagine the general mentality of the person piloting the drone who hunted her down and then pulled the trigger.