The National Institutes of Health has asked the public to submit written comments responding to a Workshop on Transforming Discoveries into Products: Maximizing NIH’s Levers to Catalyze Technology Transfer. See comment below: More innovation is fairly easy – create the...
Read moreMarket Institute President Charles Sauer has a new article in RealClear Policy looking at what drives an innovative economy and what hurts it. “For years, special interests have used the specter of the so-called “patent troll” in their never-ending attempt to vilify innovators and undermine the...
Read moreAfter huddling in our caves for a year – the world is coming to life again. That will be good for the economy, it will be good for everyone’s mental health, but most importantly it will likely mean a boom...
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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 Read more…
As Congress races to finalize a major spending bill, a small but critical reform quietly vanished from the negotiating table—site-neutrality. The provision would have leveled the playing field between hospitals and independent doctors by paying them the same rate for Read more…
The Federal Trade Commission’s long-running antitrust crusade against Meta—parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp—is not just misguided, it’s a threat to innovation and consumer choice. As Market Institute Norm Singleton writes in The Libertarian Republic, this bipartisan effort to Read more…
Over at RealClearMarkets, Market Institute Senior Fellow Norm Singleton exposes how the Federal Trade Commission continues to define “relevant markets” in ways that defy reality—and logic. In one of the most telling examples of regulatory overreach, the FTC under both Read more…
President Trump’s “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) Commission was pitched as a bold effort to drain the swamp and restore scientific integrity in health policy. But as Market Institute President Charles Sauer argues in The Center Square, the effort may Read more…
One of the most effective ways for businesses—especially startups—to grow is through mergers and acquisitions. But in today’s political climate, success is suspect, and growth is punished. In the piece below, Market Institute President Charles Sauer explains how antitrust enforcers Read more…
Federal Trade Commission Chair Andrew Ferguson recently assured CEOs at Yale’s prestigious CEO Caucus that the agency wouldn’t let “good” mergers “die on the vine.” But as Market Institute Senior Fellow Norm Singleton explains in his latest piece for RealClearMarkets, Read more…
Charles Sauer Named One of Washingtonian’s Top 500 Influencers in Public Policy We’re proud to share that Charles Sauer, President of The Market Institute, has been named to Washingtonian magazine’s list of the 500 Most Influential People Shaping Policy in Read more…
The Market Institute is proud to lead a coalition of taxpayer and free market organizations in urging Congress to adopt long-overdue site-neutral payment reforms in Medicare. We coordinated the letter below to bring attention to the urgent need for policy Read more…
Populists on both the left and right often blame mergers and acquisitions for consolidating corporate power and harming small businesses. But as Market Institute President Charles Sauer argues in a new piece at RealClearMarkets, that narrative gets it exactly backward. Read more…