Market Institute President Charles Sauer in RealClearMarkets warns that conservatives risk repeating one of the Biden administration’s biggest economic-policy mistakes: turning antitrust law into a political weapon. In a new column, Sauer examines the nomination of Adam Candeub to lead the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division and argues that Candeub’s Read more…
Opposition to data centers has become an increasingly bipartisan cause. But efforts to slow or block their development risk undermining the very innovation that can address concerns about energy costs, water use, and infrastructure. In a new commentary in RealClearMarkets, Market Institute Senior Fellow Norm Singleton explains that data centers Read more…
Market Institute President Charles Sauer joined The Steve Gruber Show to discuss hospital consolidation, rising health care costs, and the government policies that are distorting the market. Sauer argued that consolidation itself isn’t necessarily the problem. In a functioning free market, mergers and acquisitions can create efficiencies and give entrepreneurs Read more…
Market Institute President Charles Sauer argues that Congress has an opportunity to strengthen independent medicine through the Patients First Act—but lawmakers should ensure that physician payment reform does not simply become another source of higher federal spending. Writing in RealClearHealth, Sauer notes that Americans overwhelmingly prefer independent physician practices, even Read more…
Market Institute President Charles Sauer warns that the Trump administration’s expansion of Most Favored Nation (MFN) drug pricing risks trading America’s pharmaceutical leadership for uncertain short-term savings. In a new piece for RealClearMarkets, Sauer examines the administration’s push to tie U.S. prescription drug prices to the lowest prices charged in Read more…
Market Institute Senior Fellow Norm Singleton, writing in RealClearMarkets, warns that the European Union is once again using its sweeping technology regulations to target leading American companies—this time Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. In June, the European Commission issued a preliminary designation of AWS and Azure as “gatekeepers” Read more…
Market Institute President Charles Sauer warns that the Federal Trade Commission’s latest attack on Amazon could undermine the very affordability concerns that policymakers say they want to address. In a new piece for RealClearMarkets, “Trump’s FTC Places a Bull’s Eye on Affordability,” Sauer argues that FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson’s lawsuit Read more…
In a new piece for RealClearMarkets, Market Institute Senior Fellow Norm Singleton argues that efforts to block the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger misunderstand how dramatically the entertainment market has changed. The Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division approved the merger in June, but a coalition of 12 state attorneys general is suing Read more…
In a new piece for RealClearMarkets, Market Institute President Charles Sauer warns that the Federal Trade Commission’s effort to police alleged ideological bias in artificial intelligence threatens both free speech and the competitive market that is driving AI innovation. Sauer points to the FTC’s proposed policy statement on AI accuracy, Read more…
In a new piece for RealClearMarkets, Market Institute President Charles Sauer takes on Vice President JD Vance’s call for a Republican economic agenda that moves beyond the “old free-market consensus” in favor of a more interventionist approach to the economy. During a recent appearance on Michael Knowles’s podcast, Vance credited Read more…