Elon Musk is learning that in Europe, defending free speech comes at a steep price. In a recent RealClearMarkets column, Charles Sauer examines the European Union’s decision to fine X $140 million under its Digital Services Act (DSA) — a move that looks far less like consumer protection and far Read more…
Alzheimer’s disease is no longer just a medical challenge. It is a looming fiscal crisis—and one the United States is dangerously unprepared to confront. In a recent column published in The Capitalist, Charles Sauer argued that policymakers urgently need to recognize Alzheimer’s as an economic ticking time bomb. Without a Read more…
As Charles Sauer explains in a recent column for RealClearMarkets, the backlash against Netflix’s proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. reflects today’s reflexive antitrust panic—not the realities of competition in the entertainment marketplace. Critics on both the left and right have rushed to portray the deal as a threat to consumers, Read more…
iRobot, the Massachusetts-based maker of the Roomba robot vacuum, has filed for bankruptcy. While competition from newer, innovative rivals played a role, iRobot’s collapse cannot be understood without examining the role of regulators and politicians who blocked the company’s best chance to survive. As Market Institute Senior Fellow Norm Singleton Read more…
Rising beef prices have become a political talking point, but blaming “Big Beef” won’t make groceries cheaper. As Charles Sauer explains in a recent article originally published in RealClearMarkets, government crackdowns on meatpackers risk repeating the same antitrust mistakes that have already failed to lower prices elsewhere in the economy. Read more…
This holiday season, more than 11 million Americans will sit at the table with a loved one living with Alzheimer’s or another form of dementia. As Charles Sauer writes in BizPac Review, these moments are more than emotional — “they are a policy failure playing out in millions of American Read more…
New York City voters didn’t just elect a self-proclaimed democratic socialist mayor — they handed the keys to the transition team to someone whose regulatory philosophy has already reshaped Washington: former Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Lina Khan. During her tenure, Khan oversaw what CNBC’s Jim Cramer called a “one Read more…
Virginia Governor-elect Abigail Spanberger campaigned as a centrist fixated on one theme: affordability. Voters were told she would govern as a level-headed moderate, skeptical of ideological excesses and focused squarely on cost-of-living relief. But as Market Institute Senior Fellow Norm Singleton writes in RealClearMarkets, Spanberger’s record in Congress tells a Read more…
As the FTC develops its Strategic Plan for 2026–2030, the agency has a rare chance to reset after years of mission drift. But as Norm Singleton writes in RealClearMarkets, the draft plan released in October misses the mark—ignoring statutory requirements and failing to address the central problem: the continued influence Read more…
A common refrain from Trump supporters is that everything he is doing is “common sense.” And at some level, they’re right. Taking aggressive measures to lower crime, strengthen the economy, and fix broken markets like pharmaceuticals sounds like exactly what a president should do. But as Charles Sauer writes in Read more…