antitrust and competition
Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (Nov. 18–26)
The stories that most interested us this week.
The New York Times reports on the ongoing turmoil at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and...
The DOJ Has a Strong Case Against the AT&T-Time Warner Merger
If the merging parties are true to their many tough public statements, and they stick the litigation out long-term, the odds are not bad...
Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (Nov. 10–17)
The stories that most interested us this week.
The bribery trial of US Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) ended in a mistrial after the jury was not able...
Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (Nov. 3–10)
The stories that most interested us this week.
Following reports that the Justice Department might force AT&T to sell Time Warner’s CNN as a...
Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (Oct. 26–Nov. 2)
The stories that most interested us this week.
Following a tough week for the world’s dominant digital platforms, Barry Lynn and Matt Stoller of the...
Stigler on Monopolies: “Competition is a Tough Weed, Not a Delicate Flower”
Many of Stigler’s views on monopoly and antitrust were consistent through the decades. Even after his concerns of monopoly began to recede, he continued...
UN Study Warns: Growing Economic Concentration Leads to “Rentier Capitalism”
A new study by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development argues: The “endemic rent-seeking that stems from market concentration, heightened corporate power,...
Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (Oct. 19–26)
The first edition of our weekly news briefing.
ProMarket Issues in the Media
"CVS Health is in Talks to Buy Aetna" (Wall Street Journal)
“Consumer Bureau Loses Fight to...
Mergers Are Bad for Innovation
Mergers tend to reduce overall innovation, making consumers “always worse off after a merger," says Tommaso Valletti, the European Commission’s Chief Competition Economist.
As competition authorities...
Antitrust in the Labor Market: Protectionist, or Pro-Competitive?
Redirecting antitrust enforcement to confront monopsony power would be a substantial departure from the way it has been conducted in recent decades, but just...
