The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently hosted a summit titled “The Attention Economy: How Big Tech Firms Exploit Children and Hurt Families.” On the surface, this sounds like a well-intentioned initiative aimed at protecting kids from harmful online content. But as Market Institute Senior Fellow Norm Singleton explains in his Read more…
In a rare move for a Democratic governor, Colorado’s Jared Polis just defied one of the most powerful forces in his party: the union bosses. Polis vetoed legislation that would have repealed a key protection in Colorado’s Labor Peace Act—a second election requirement that limits when unions can force workers Read more…
A broad coalition of public policy, free-market, and grassroots organizations has sent a letter to Republican lawmakers urging support for three crucial pieces of patent legislation: the Promoting and Respecting Economically Vital American Innovation Leadership (PREVAIL) Act, the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act (PERA), and the RESTORE Patent Rights Act. These Read more…
The Federal Trade Commission’s investigation into Media Matters isn’t just a swipe at a progressive media watchdog—it’s a direct threat to the First Amendment rights of all Americans. In his latest article for RealClearMarkets, Market Institute Senior Fellow Norm Singleton sounds the alarm on the FTC’s request for communications between Read more…
America’s largest government health programs are being quietly looted—not by patients, but by the very insurers trusted to manage their care. Through a practice known as upcoding, insurance companies inflate the severity of diagnoses to bill Medicare and Medicaid for more than what was actually needed. The result: billions in Read more…
The cartoon above says it all: the federal government continues to overpay for healthcare services simply because of where the care is delivered. Under current law, Medicare pays far more for a procedure done at a hospital outpatient facility than it does for the exact same service provided by an Read more…
In a rare moment of restraint, the Federal Trade Commission recently withdrew its lawsuit against PepsiCo for allegedly violating the Robinson-Patman Act (RPA)—a dusty New Deal-era law that punishes companies for giving discounts to large retailers. But while the dismissal is a win for free-market principles, some troubling signals suggest Read more…
As the Federal Trade Commission holds workshops on how Big Tech is supposedly “harming kids,” policymakers from both the left and the right are uniting behind a dangerous idea: that government should regulate social media in the name of protecting children. But as this new paper makes clear, the real Read more…
When 60 Minutes producer Bill Owens resigned in April, correspondent Scott Pelley didn’t just praise his work—he revealed the real reason Owens walked away: interference from Paramount, CBS’s parent company, due to political pressure surrounding a pending merger with Skydance. Just days later, CBS News President Wendy McMahon followed suit. Read more…
Federal Trade Commission Chair Andrew Ferguson is calling out one of the greatest threats to American innovation coming from abroad: the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA). In a recent piece for RealClearMarkets, Market Institute President Charles Sauer details Ferguson’s critique of the DMA, delivered at the International Competitors Network Read more…