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The FTC’s Andrew Ferguson Sounds Eerily Like Lina Khan

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…

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Meta’s Purchase of Instagram Underscores the Genius of the M&A

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…

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Businesses should be able to succeed or fail based on how they perform, not how much the government has invested in them. A free market means letting businesses compete on their own, not having the government take a bigger seat at the table.

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Memo to the Trump administration: Stop buying companies.

A government $40 trillion in debt should be SELLING assets, not buying ownership stakes in 36 companies.

We thought government control of the means of production was what we were fighting against.

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The goal should be simple: protect national security without blocking promising medicines from reaching American patients.

Broad biotech restrictions risk doing exactly that.

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Trump administration proposes new curbs on China biotech deals https://www.axios.com/2026/10/23/trump-china-biotech-restrictions?utm_campaign=mrf-utm_source=x&utm_medium=organic_social&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&mrfcid=202610236ad04fc1adeaa64e72130b68

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Protecting inventors is a founding American principle. Strong patent rights give innovators the incentive to build what comes next.

As @newtgingrich puts it:

“We want to encourage inventors. We want to give them legal protection so they have an incentive.”

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