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The Future of Antitrust Conference and Contributions by the Panelists - Progressive Policy Institute Antitrust is in transition. A change in political administration, broader support for a stronger role for antitrust, and the pressures of existing and emerging competition issues raise critical questi...

We thank Diana Moss for the invitation to participate in the PPI Conference, where we shared our thoughts on why the "for-cause" protections for FTC Commissioners do not threaten separation of powers and should be preserved. Details in the posted paper. www.progressivepolicy.org/the-future-o...

6th Annual George Washington University Competition Law Center and Crowell & Moring Antitrust & Tech Conference Please join us in person for the sixth Annual George Washington University Competition Law Center and Crowell & Moring Antitrust & Tech Conference, Tuesday May 13, 2025, 1:00 p.m. at the George…

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Six years old…and still worth reading 🙂

Threats to Competition Policy in the Second Trump Administration: Is Antitrust Enforcement Following Alice Down the Rabbit Hole? - ProMarket After the second Trump administration initially appeared to maintain significant continuity in antitrust enforcement, the president more recently thrust the agencies into turmoil. Those later actions ...

Threats to Competition Policy in the Second Trump Administration: Is Antitrust Enforcement Following Alice Down the Rabbit Hole?

My new blog post: www.promarket.org/2025/04/11/t...

Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True. (Gift Article) A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.

Elon Musk says that no one has died because he slashed humanitarian aid. I went to South Sudan to check if that's true. It's not. Meet Peter, Achol and Evan, ages 10, 8 and 5. The reckless actions of the world's richest men are killing the world's poorest kids www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

NASA telescope will study what put the bang in the big bang The SPHEREx space telescope will explore the universe's origin and gather data on cosmic inflation.

Cosmic inflation! This'll take your mind off the other stuff. www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

Declaration of No Independence: President Trump Asserts Control Over Independent Agencies Through Executive Order On February 18, President Trump issued an Executive Order titled “Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies”[1] that directs independent agencies (as well as Cabinet Departments and their sub-agencies)...

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The CFPB took aim at Big Tech. Then Elon Musk moved to dismantle it. In the days before Musk’s DOGE set its sights on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, X revealed plans for a payments system the agency might have overseen.

So much corruption and conflict with everything Elon touches. It should be no surprise to anyone that the agencies he has targeted first and most intensely -- CFPB and USAID -- both happen to stand in the way of his business plans. Shocker . . . but massively shameful for the US.

More Heraclitus than Kuhn - ProMarket Andrew Gavil examines the Biden Administration's antitrust policy, placing it in the broader historical context of evolving competition law. He questions the fit of Kuhn’s concept of paradigm shift fo...

Thank you @promarket.bsky.social for the opportunity to participate in this thoughtful and timely symposium. www.promarket.org/2024/12/05/m...

Pleased to share that the fifth edition of my antitrust law casebook with Bill Kovacic and jbbecon.bsky.social has just been published. Our field is changing and the book provides updates and new perspectives.
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Why Business Should Be More Prosocial, and Ten Guidelines for How - ProMarket Business and economic thought instituted at least since the Reagan revolution in the United States have promoted firms’ narrowly self-interested, profit-maximizing conduct even at the expense of consu...

Business and economic thought instituted at least since the Reagan Revolution in the US have promoted firms’ narrowly self-interested, profit-maximizing conduct. This paradigm leads to social distrust and insufficient cooperation, @stevesalop.bsky.social explains www.promarket.org/2024/02/13/w...

The Review of Industrial Organization will be publishing what promises to be a very important symposium on the final 2023 Merger Guidelines.  My own (nontechnical) contribution is here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....