The EU is making two demands that would wreck Apple’s successful business model. It demands that Apple open its app store to competitors. And it wants Apple to share the guts of its operations with competitors.

In recent weeks, Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson has shown his true colors as a Khanservative dedicated to continuing many of the antitrust actions, investigations and philosophies he inherited from former Chair Lina Khan. Now we’ve received our first indication that Gail Slater, the new Justice Department Antitrust Chief, may somewhat continue in the mold of her predecessor, Jonathan Kanter.

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes recently told the media that she is so concerned that the Justice Department might drop its antitrust case against RealPage – an online aggregator of market data for landlords – that she is “actually considering sending a letter to (U.S. Attorney General) Pam Bondi.” On March 11th, she did just that.

The off-again, on-again Federal Trade Commission antitrust lawsuit against Meta was on again today before the judicial branch’s version of Zelig, Judge James Boasberg. FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson told the media that his lawyers were “raring to go” to break up Meta. But why?

You might think that Huawei, China’s global tech giant and secret surveillance tool, is no longer a threat to the United States. Recent action by the Federal Communications Commission suggests otherwise.

The sharp teeth of the European Union’s new competition rules under the Digital Markets Act and Digital Services Act are drawing blood from two of America’s greatest innovators. Such mandates undermine U.S. tech leaders’ basic business models and threaten to turn them into public utilities. They also trash privacy by handing consumer data and American trade secrets to China, while putting in jeopardy the very innovation and user experiences that consumers value.

“President Trump is stripping away regulations and liberating the animal spirits of the free market to help consumers,” Bork said. “Did Andrew Ferguson not get this memo? Why is he perpetuating the Biden-Khan merger guidelines that fail to mention the Consumer Welfare Standard, substituting it with vague standards that make federal regulators the ‘policemen at the elbow’ of every innovator?

Jamie Dimon didn’t just say the quiet part out loud. He said the quiet part loudly.

For years, CEOs complained in private but minced around in public about the outrageous business model of Institutional Shareholder Services and Glass Lewis, the duopoly that has a stranglehold on the proxy advisory business.

Why is the Federal Trade Commission under Trump-appointed Chair Andrew Ferguson seeking public comments on “technology platform censorship”? Not, as they say on Seinfeld, that there is anything wrong with that. But the FTC probably wouldn’t take such a step without an idea of where it is going.

Did Jonathan Kanter and Lina Khan actually leave the Justice Department Antitrust Division and the Federal Trade Commission? Or are they in tiny offices on the roofs of each building, quietly directing the policies of the Trump Administration below?