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Sep 27, 2024
Rent-seeking is the process by which market actors pursue economic advantage through political means. It is the competition that occurs on Capitol Hill and in stuffy administrative...
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Sep 16, 2024
For years, litigation over 47 U.S. Code § 230 — known better as Section 230 — acquired a Groundhog Day–esque quality. Despite the law’s plain...
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Sep 3, 2024
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in 2024 little resembles its former self. The agency has drifted away from its post as a watchdog guarding against anti-competitive schemes and...
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Aug 22, 2024
In no industry does the process of creative destruction operate more dynamically than in the tech sector. To remain competitive (or even survive), start-ups and giants must...
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Jul 6, 2024
Congress, not SCOTUS, must address the problem of state coercion in the realm of social media.
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Jun 25, 2024
Artificial intelligence (AI) skeptics often predicate regulatory proposals on the unserious claim that no agency possesses effective authority to regulate the technology. Once...
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Jun 7, 2024
Texas federal district judge Kenneth M. Hoyt recently confronted the question of whether a person who had committed no violation should be held liable for the conduct of another....
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May 15, 2024
Late last month, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) finalized a nationwide ban on non-compete agreements, contractual clauses that preclude employees from working for...
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May 14, 2024
Local schools, not federal bureaucracies, can serve as laboratories of democracy and technology.
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May 1, 2024
Speaking recently, Lourenco Goncalves (CEO of steelmaker Cleveland-Cliffs) labeled Japanese Nippon Steel’s ongoing acquisition of U.S. Steel a “fiasco.”...
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Apr 18, 2024
The current Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has dedicated itself to indulging the obsessions and idiosyncrasies of a certain type of technocratic progressive instead of...
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Mar 29, 2024
Sens. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) recently introduced the RENT Act of 2024, a bill to disallow covered rental car companies to rent electric vehicles...
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Feb 27, 2024
The true magic of the genies in stories such as “Arabian Nights” seems to be less their power to fulfill any request than their ability to do so at no cost. As human...
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Feb 1, 2024
7,800 products sold per minute.
That figure is the average rate at which independent American sellers move product on Amazon’s marketplace. These...
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Jan 23, 2024
President Biden has inaugurated a new era of American antitrust. His agenda reworks obsolete and discredited 20th-century economic theories to target 21st-century...