FTC challenges 'junk' patents held by 10 drugmakers, incl Novo Nordisk's Ozempic

I’m so impressed with the FTC lately, here is an excellent interview Jon Stewart did with the FTC chair Lina Khan: https://youtu.be/oaDTiWaYfcM

I did joke I’m really surprised the vested interests selected someone competent who wants to hold these companies accountable to the public.

There's a lot of talk about "both sides being the same", but the FTC alone has been a night & day difference from previous administrations.

I would like to point out the administration's accomplishments in the last two weeks (shamelessly copied from Matt Stoller's recent piece "This Is What Governing Looks Like")

* Banned non-compete agreements for 40 million workers

* Raised overtime wages for 4 million salaried workers

* Forced airlines to automatically offer refunds for canceled flights and poorly handled baggage

* Banned illegal junk fees in mortgage lending

* Forced divestment of TikTok from Chinese ownership

* Blocked corporate merger in insulation

* Filed to block a corporate merger in fashion

* Announced tariff increases on steel to protect domestic producers

* Announced an end to the duty free period on Chinese solar panels to encourage U.S. manufacturing.

* Passed the first Federal privacy law to stop data brokers from selling sensitive information to China and Russia

Most of it needs backed up by Congress or it'll just go away given a few administrations.

> Announced tariff increases on steel to protect domestic producers

The Trump Admin went after China far more than Biden has so far, the Democrats were overwhelmingly silent about how that qualified as impressive governing. He needs to do a lot more to bolster US labor and US manufacturing, it's not even a good start yet.