The Market Institute Senior Fellow Norm Singleton has a new article out in Real Clear Markets exploring yet another curious and anti-business move by FTC Chair Lina Khan. He writes: “Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Lina Khan and her Democratic colleagues on the FTC board recently approved an “omnibus resolution” which Read more…
The Market Institute President Charles Sauer has a new article in the Washington Examiner’s Restoring America series looking at why Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) is ending his tenure in the Senate with a patent bill that will harm inventors. “The 47-year-serving Democratic senator from Vermont, Patrick Leahy, is finishing his Read more…
The Market Institute President Charles Sauer has a new piece in Real Clear Markets looking back at the deregulation in the Carter Administration and asking why liberals of today have gotten so far away from those policies. “Name the former government official, and the administration he worked for, who said Read more…
The Market Institute President Charles Sauer has a new article in Real Clear Markets asking why some conservatives are so quick to have an anti – “Big Tech” Republican fill in the vacant seat on the FTC Board. He writes: “Several conservative organizations recently wrote Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell urging him Read more…
The Market Institute joined a letter opposing the misleadingly named Freight Rail Shipping Fair Market Act, which would increase government interference in freight rail operations.izing of antitrust laws by Congress. You can view the letter here or below.
The Market Institute President Charles Sauer has a new article in Real Clear Markets on the push by some in Congress to vilify credit card companies. “The division between the two parties used to be clear – one liked fairy tales and one liked self-help books. Now both parties seem Read more…
The Market Institute President Charles Sauer has a new article in Real Clear Health highlighting a recent executive order by the Biden Administration to use antitrust enforcement. “In a move that would warm Joseph Stalin’s dead heart, the Biden Administration released (yet) another Executive Order, this one instructing federal agencies to ramp Read more…
The Market Institute Senior Fellow John Tamny has a new piece out in Real Clear Markets looking at the Federal Trade Commission’s recent lawsuit against Meta (Facebook). “At the dawn of the 20th century it was said that cars were rarer than millionaires. And millionaires were, of course, very rare. Thinking Read more…
The Market Institute President Charles Sauer has a new piece in Real Clear Markets looking at the Federal Trade Commission’s radical agenda under Lina Khan. “Americans struggling with high prices and shortages may be in for more economic difficulties courtesy of the Biden Administration. This is because, with the Senate recently Read more…
Summary Controversy over treatment by “Big Tech,” a shorthand reference to companies like Facebook, Google, Twitter, and Amazon, of those expressing conservative, libertarian or just unapproved views on controversial political and social issues has led some conservatives to call for government use of antitrust law to rein in, or even Read more…