President Joe Biden plans to sign an executive order on Friday that calls for greater scrutiny of mergers, a restoration of net neutrality rules and limits to corporate non-compete agreements.As much as Biden will highlight the potential benefits to consumers and workers by some of the measures, a number of the proposed changes will require federal agency action or Congressional approval.But Biden intends to highlight the consolidation in the marketplace to make the case that a lack of competition drives up prices.The executive order singles out a series of industries, including tech, banking, agriculture, healthcare and transportation, while identifying what the White House sees as specific problems in the marketplace, like Internet
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