For years economists praised the “Walmart Effect,” in which big box retailers’ everyday low prices had a measurable effect on restraining inflation. Walmart remains a fierce competitor in retail, demanding the lowest costs from suppliers, and passing the savings on to consumers.

Surveying what will soon be the post-Lina Khan Federal Trade Commission is a bit like being the hotel manager who walks into a room after a rock star has checked out. The mirrors are shattered, the bed is broken, jagged champaign bottle fragments are everywhere, and the television seemed to have been hurled out the window.

As antitrust policy goes, so does the national election … says absolutely no one. In a fair world, however, voters and the media would be agog at the economic and national security implications of a report released at the end of last week by the House Oversight and Accountability Commission on Chair Lina Khan’s stewardship of the Federal Trade Commission.

When it comes to border enforcement, taxes, and, more generally, “Woke vs. MAGA,” the choice between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris could not be clearer. But when it comes to how the next president will enforce antitrust policy, there are lot of — to borrow a phrase from the late Donald Rumsfeld — known unknowns.

The Biden-Harris Administration should stop wrongly blaming others for its own disastrous policies. For example, in 2023 the DOJ filed statements of interest in lawsuits in Atlantic City and Las Vegas which falsely alleged that hotel-casinos and their A.I. room pricing software vendors illegally fixed hotel room prices.

Imagine if Congress, for some odd reason, wanted to punish Chuck Norris. It might pass a tax bill that only pertains to “martial artists who are ranch owners retired from acting careers in film and television.” Not only would that be unwise (this is Chuck Norris we’re talking about), it also would be unconstitutional to use seemingly objective definitions meant to single out one person. The Constitution wisely forbids such bills of attainder.

October is proving to be a busy month for Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Lina Khan. As she completes her term, Khan’s calendar has the feel of a political farewell tour.

In the late Middle Ages, artisans melted down florins, the Florentine coin of pure gold, to apply it as gold leaf for floating halos over the heads of the saints. Today, if you are Lina Khan, you just go to Leslie Stahl.

The Federal Trade Commission scored a PR victory with a report last week that accuses prominent social media and video streaming companies of lax privacy controls, especially in how they handle the data of children and teens.

On Tuesday, the Federal Trade Commission, under the direction of Chair Lina Khan, argued its case to block the merger between grocery chains Kroger and Albertsons before Judge Adrienne Nelson in a federal court in Portland.