The Market Institute President Charles Sauer has a new article in Real Clear Markets examining the social media landscape. In recent years, the government has gotten in the way of the free market forces governing the tech sector. “The Prime Directive on Star Trek, America’s oldest and most recognizable science Read more…
The Market Institute Senior Fellow Norm Singleton has a new article in Real Clear Markets looking at legislation that may be voted on in this month’s lame duck session of Congress, the “American Innovation and Choice Act” (S. 2992) that would prohibit Big Tech companies (mainly Amazon, Google and Meta, the parent Read more…
The Market Institute joined a letter headed by the Competitiveness Coalition to U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and U.S. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy urging their respective caucuses to hold the line on harmful antitrust legislation, like the American Innovation and Choice Online Act (S. 2992) and the Open Read more…
The Market Institute President Charles Sauer has a new article in Real Clear Markets rebutting some conservative lawmakers that are going after ‘Big Tech’ with new antitrust laws. He argues this is incompatible with small government. “Representatives and one-third of Senators dread even-numbered Septembers. That’s because they must leave the Read more…
The Market Institute President Charles Sauer and Former U.S. Senator Scott Brown (R-MA) have a new opinion piece in the Washington Examiner looking at why inflation is going to get worse if antitrust legislation is passed by Congress. They write: “Another month brought a grim new set of inflation numbers, Read more…
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 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 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…
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…