The DOJ and FTC Institutionalize Failure

First impressions of the DOJ and FTC merger guidelines announced today.

First Right Podcast: The Antitrust Assault on our Economy

AEP President Robert Bork Jr. on the First Right Podcast to discuss the “antitrust assault on our economy.”

What Khan Didn’t Answer This Morning

Republicans in this morning’s House Judiciary Committee hearing raised the right questions but did not manage to penetrate Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan’s smooth and lawyerly shell.

Another Federal Judge Kicks Khan to the Curb

In another stunning loss for Lina Khan and her radicalized FTC, a federal judge in Northern California played sheriff and threw Khan’s case against Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision through the saloon doors and out into the dusty street.

Questions Jim Jordan Should Ask Lina Khan

As the FTC chairwoman makes her first-ever appearance before a GOP-controlled House Judiciary Committee, she has much to answer for.

Seeking Her (Whale) Bones, Lina Khan Aims to Kill Amazon In Its Present Form

In well-placed leaks to the media, Lina Khan is signaling that the depth and breadth of her long-anticipated antitrust lawsuit against Amazon will exceed anything the ambitious, ideology-driven Federal Trade Commission Chair has yet attempted.

An Insider View of ESG

The ESG cartel pushes liberal rhetoric in service of Democratic political success.

The Left Takes Notice of the ESG Oligarchy

Like metal filings between magnets, issues today line up with the “blue/progressive” pole or the “red/conservative” pole. But ideological simplification can disguise underlying currents where the lines of force touch and many on the Left and Right agree.

Take the case of ESG , or environmental, social, and governance standards devised by non-governmental organizations and imposed by asset managers in proxy challenges and orders on how to vote on corporate boards.

Statement on State AG warning to Net Zero Insurance Alliance

May 16, 2023 The state attorneys general are exposing the iron fist inside the green glove of the ESG cartel….

The ‘Policeman at Your Elbow’ Is Drunk

Tim Wu, who worked from the White House to coordinate the antitrust agenda of the early Biden Administration, explains the role of the government regulator as the necessary “policeman at the elbow” to restrain corporations from unfairly squeezing out competition. President Biden’s enforcers, Lina Khan, Chair of the Federal Trade Commission, and Jonathan Kanter, head of the Department of Justice antitrust division, push progressive policing of the economy with enthusiasm.