Biden’s expansive executive order seeks to restore competition in the economy. It’s been a long, slow road to get the whole government on board—but there are some formidable gains.
agriculture
Posted inWorking in America
USDA Ignores Its Own Proposed Labor Standards
The department has yet to implement a rule requiring its contractors to obey labor laws.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
John Deere Says Farmers Can Fix Their Own Tractors—Sometimes
It cuts a deal with a farmers’ group to forestall legislation requiring it to stop compelling farmers to come to Deere for all their repairs.
Posted inTransportation
Rail Companies Can’t Handle Traffic From Mississippi River Drought
Low water levels have pushed shippers who typically use river barges to use freight rail. But decades of strangled capacity makes rail a bad bet, too.
Posted inPolitics
The Worst-Case Scenarios of the Republican House
Outside of investigations, the GOP will try to use leverage from must-pass bills to force through ideological priorities.
Posted inTAP
The Fed’s Thanksgiving Turkey
Today on TAP: Misleading reports on the rising cost of dinner are feeding the Fed’s appetite for more perverse rate hikes.
Posted inPolitics
The Rural Turnaround
Democrats have only begun to do better in rural America—but the road map is there.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Returning to Fairness
A commissioner at the Federal Trade Commission considers rural America and open markets.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Supreme Court May Curb State Economic Regulatory Powers
In a little-noticed case on pork production, the justices could pare back the tools that California and other progressive states use to regulate a wide array of industries.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Occupy Honduras
Rural campesino groups return to land they allege was taken from them by palm oil corporations.