In a recent piece for The Libertarian Republic, Market Institute Senior Fellow Norm Singleton explores a troubling trend on the right: using the power of the state to punish private businesses for political speech. In “The Woke Right’s War on the First Amendment,” Singleton warns that conservative leaders may be Read more…
Google, once a Stanford science project and now one of the world’s most successful tech companies, represents the best of American innovation. But instead of celebrating that success, politicians from both parties are treating it like a crime. In a recent RealClearMarkets article, Charles Sauer explains how the Biden Administration Read more…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 at the FTC and DOJ are taking an increasingly aggressive Read more…