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Is ESG Ready to RIP?

Aswath Damodaran, professor of finance at the Stern School of Business at NYU, presents a brilliant dissection of the many contradictions and pitfalls of ESG in The Financial Times.

What’s Missing in CNN’s Lina Khan Profile

The media just cannot help but remain in the thrall of Lina Khan, even as the legacy the FTC chair is trying to establish fails to get traction. Case in point, CNN’s profile of Khan as she struggles to convince court after court to adopt her antitrust theories. The story by Brian Fung and Catherine Thorbecke has a quote (from a former Bush FTC chair no less, et tu?) that while “it’s a tough row to hoe” Khan is attempting, the “upholders of the status quo look old and tired.”

Protecting Consumers from… Themselves?

A short essay in the American Institute for Economic Research from Dr. Kimberlee Josephson, an associate professor of business, spells out in stark detail the oddity of the Federal Trade Commission trying to protect consumers from companies and services they continue to use.

What the Critics Are Saying About Lina Khan’s Amazon Antitrust Suit

The reviews are in on the Federal Trade Commission’s complaint against Amazon. If this were a movie on Rotten Tomatoes, FTC Chair Lina Khan’s signature antitrust case would be a big green splat.

Liberal Antitrust Targets Amazon but Ignores the ESG Cartel

The Federal Trade Commission ’s antitrust law against Amazon is cementing Chairwoman Lina Khan ’s reputation as someone who, when she sees big, sees red. Yet when Khan, who develops novel theories to launch antitrust actions against Big Tech companies, sees clear antitrust violations by big entities in other sectors, she fails to act.

Amazon and Chipotle

Farhad Manjoo has an incisive piece in today’s New York Times on the disparities of FTC’s Amazon antitrust suit.

WashPo’s Touch Up Job on Lina Khan’s Gold Leaf Halo

It’s amazing how compliantly The Washington Post spins for those it admires. In today’s Post, Will Oremus writes that Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan’s case against Amazon is “the case Khan was born to make.”

FTC Charges Amazon with Driving Higher Prices for Consumers, Despite Amazon Prices Being 13 Percent Less than Other Leading U.S. Retailers

You’ve got to give credit to the FTC and its Chair Lina Khan – in their Tuesday filing of their blockbuster antitrust lawsuit against Amazon, this time they managed to round their argument to fully include the needs of consumers, not just the protection of other, less efficient competitors.

Why Bother to Confirm Two Republican FTC Commissioners?

Two nominees for the Federal Trade Commission – Andrew Ferguson, Solicitor General of Virginia and former chief counsel to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, and Melissa Holyoak, Solicitor General of Utah – had a Senate confirmation hearing this week that, like the best of airplane flights, was uneventful.

Will Khan Break Amazon – or Will Her Lawsuit Break Her?

Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan is by all accounts preparing to file her long-anticipated antitrust case against Amazon. There are rumors and reports of tail-chasing and internal angst within the FTC over the drafting of this complaint.