In a recent RealClearMarkets column, Norm Singleton pushes back against the familiar panic that accompanies every major technological shift in the movie industry—this time aimed at streaming and Netflix’s proposed acquisition of Warner Brothers. Singleton reminds readers that resistance to innovation is nothing new. From the earliest days of sound Read more…
The Market Institute has joined a broad coalition of national and state-based organizations urging the Missouri General Assembly to support Governor Mike Kehoe’s Missouri Promise—a responsible, trigger-based plan to phase out the state individual income tax and modernize Missouri’s outdated tax system. Missouri-Letter Missouri’s current income tax structure dates back 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…
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Andrew Ferguson may not always align perfectly with free-market principles, but his recent defense of American businesses and consumers against the European Union’s regulatory overreach deserves praise. As Norm Singleton writes in RealClearMarkets, Ferguson’s actions mark a welcome shift from his predecessor Lina Khan—who “assisted 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 break up Meta is based more on ideological hostility toward 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 Lina Khan and her successor Andrew Ferguson has relied on 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, actions speak louder than words. By retaining aggressive merger guidelines 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. Sauer points to Meta’s acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp—deals frequently Read more…
In a new piece for RealClearMarkets, Norm Singleton explores how the Trump administration’s antitrust team is embracing a troubling trend: using Lina Khan’s aggressive, big-government approach to target political opponents under the banner of fighting “wokeness” and Big Tech censorship. Far from restoring free-market principles, the rise of so-called “Khanservatives” Read more…
In the wake of the East Palestine, Ohio derailment, Congress rushed to respond—but instead of investigating the root causes, lawmakers reached for more regulation. In a surprising twist, some Republicans joined Democrats in pushing a bill loaded with mandates that catered more to union demands than to actual rail safety. Read more…