New FTC Chair Fights DEI, Cuts Public Comments on Regulatory Fees

Although Lina Khan spent her four years at the head of the Federal Trade Commission fighting to end monopolies and fight tariffs, it seems that Donald Trump’s new FTC chairman Andrew Ferguson has rejected one that is expected to cause all the economic problems. : ZA. Sitting Commissioner Alvaro Bedoya doesn’t think this is cheating, and in a fiery debate to Ferguson’s fight against diversity, it highlighted a number of things the FTC had done but now it has closed the public’s ability to comment.

Per Bedoya’s statement, which described Ferguson as “out of touch with the problems that ordinary people face,” listed five requests for information from the FTC. This included the question of how the Commission was able to do so protect workers from illegal businesses such as unrelated and bagless sentences, fight against predatory treesand support small businesses.

Perhaps most importantly, Ferguson closed the comments on the request for contact price controlincluding looking at how companies collect and share public information and use that information to set different prices for products.

This practice has become widespread, especially on the Internet, where companies can access information about users when a person purchases products and services. It’s a habit that can be closely related to airline tickets—for years, people have believed that airplanes changing prices depending on how the buyer often views the aircraft. But a recent FTC investigationpublished before the end of the Biden presidency, found that the practice is widespread. Former FTC Chairman Khan warned that companies are setting “prices for the goods and services they want” based on everything “from location and traffic, to the movement of the mouse on a website.”

This seems like the kind of thing the FTC should be looking into. Unfortunately, it appears that it is no longer on the list. Commissioner Bedoya he said In his criticism that what Ferguson is looking at DEI is “a game of retweets on X – the kind of thing that annoys ordinary people who can’t afford to rent.” Of course, the way to reduce the high cost of living that is pushing Americans into it debt and poverty it doesn’t look like it will pass X. But who knows, maybe if Ferguson can be engaged enough, he can share his check with the American people.