In a recent Washington Examiner article, Market Institute President Charles Sauer explores the growing influence of populism in U.S. policymaking—particularly how it’s shaping the way federal regulators view food and health policy. With the release of the MAHA Report (Make America Healthy Again), the White House signals a new era 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…
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…
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…
Temu—a Chinese e-commerce platform accused of slave labor and tax evasion—has skyrocketed in popularity in the U.S., becoming the most downloaded app of 2024. Instead of investigating Temu, the Federal Trade Commission under Lina Khan reached out to them for help in its antitrust case against Amazon. That’s right: the Read more…
In today’s world, information is more accessible than ever — but trust in that information is collapsing.In this excerpt, we explore how biased reporting, information overload, and the rise of AI have created new challenges for truth and trust. From the media’s often chaotic relationship with President Trump to the Read more…
In this piece at The Libertarian Institute, Market Institute Senior Fellow Norm Singleton calls out FCC Chair Brendan Carr for abandoning the First Amendment in pursuit of partisan content control. From threatening media mergers to pushing reinterpretations of Section 230, Carr’s agenda mirrors the regulatory overreach of Lina Khan’s “Khanservatism”—just 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…