The consumer-welfare standard, defended eloquently by Phil Gramm and Christine Wilson in “The New Progressives Fight Against Consumer Welfare” (op-ed, April 4), is fundamental to advancing the rule of ...
Bipartisan momentum to limit the power of Silicon Valley has threatened the 40-year reign of the consumer welfare standard in U.S. antitrust law. The shift — most notable among Republicans terrified ...
The United States Congress is on the precipice of passing bipartisan legislation that would meaningfully rein in Big Tech’s stranglehold on our access to information, the products we buy, and how we ...
In a true free market, businesses succeed or fail based on their ability to meet consumer’s needs and wants better than their competitors. Thus, businesses that remain successful will constantly try ...
If there’s one thing lawmakers from both sides of the aisle seem able to agree on, it’s the need to rein in Big Tech. Bipartisan support for taking Big Tech down a peg was evident during Jonathan ...
Conservatives are understandably concerned about Big Tech censorship, with some looking to use antitrust law to “break up” companies they don’t like. Politicizing the antitrust enforcement process ...
Last October, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced its intention to create a Task Force on Federal Consumer Financial Law. Inspired by the 1972 National Commission on Consumer ...
In the early 20th century, the idea that “big is bad” drove a muscular federal antitrust policy that viewed large corporations with suspicion. Then, in the 1980s, the Federal Trade Commission began to ...
Elections have consequences. And when a new administration takes charge, opportunities abound to steer a better path forward. But policy changes should be tempered by responsible reflection, not ...
Antitrust attacks aimed at 'cutting monopoly platforms down to size' harm consumers. Politicians and policy analysts have expressed concern about the growing size and impact of large digital-platform ...
America Must Slash Red Tape to Make Nuclear Power Great Again The Rare Earths Travesty As DEI Dies, Corporate America Faces Serious Risk A Trade Deal Without Teeth Isn’t Worth the Paper It’s Printed ...
EVER SINCE its first antitrust law passed in 1890, America has argued over what trustbusting is for. One school, named after Louis Brandeis, a judge, holds that big companies must be tamed because ...
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