Opinion | The Biden administration takes an overdue first step to foster competition

The checklist goes on. Although we dwell in an age of innovation and enterprise capital for start-ups has by no means been extra plentiful, key sectors of our economic system stay uncompetitive. With out competitors, corporations can cost customers extra and pay staff much less. The federal authorities has appreciable, largely underused energy to make sure that we as customers and staff profit from aggressive markets. And that’s what Biden’s government order on competitors seeks to attain. It identifies some 72 initiatives that federal businesses with authority over banking, agriculture, transportation, delivery and well being care, to call just some, can take to additional free market competitors, assist staff and customers thrive, and make our lives higher.