Your Heard Tell For 21AUG23
US Government v Amazon & Consumers w/ Yael Ossowski & Student Loan Debt Discussion w/ Neetu Arnold
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Your Heard Tell Show for Wednesday, August 15th, 2023 is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern our times by welcoming Consumer Choice Center's Deputy Directory Yael Ossowski back to the program. Yael walks us through his piece in USA Today about the FTC going after Amazon, how this is just a new version of a long-running debate between government and the biggest retailers/companies around, the difference between good regulation and bad policy, how "the curse of bigness" isn't the same as antitrust or a monopoly, and how legitimate issues of Amazon doing wrong for consumers gets glossed over by government overreach. Plus, we have Neetu Arnold from Young Voices joining to talk about the student loan debt relief debate. Neetu discusses how the recent court cases are reshaping efforts to address student loan debt but not doing much to solve the core problems, how student loan debt doesn't get the protections for the borrower other loans do, the predatory system that is making it worse, and how there won't be a one-size-fits-all answer to the issue.
All that and more on this edition of Heard Tell.