Admin, Author at Antitrust Education Project

Bork Jr. calls net-zero movement ‘half-baked, fashionable impulses’

Days after BlackRock left Net-Zero Asset Managers, which was created to align asset management companies and global climate goals, the coalition said it was suspending operations.

Skepticism Is Warranted in Sen. Warren’s Anti-Business Appeal to Conservatives

In The Odyssey the witch Circe warns Odysseus what is ahead on his journey home – the Sirens who drive men mad and cause them founder on their shoals, “a great heap of dead men’s bones lying all around, the flesh still rotting off of them.” If Odysseus still insists on hearing the sweet song of the Sirens, Circe tells him to make sure his men have wax in their ears but for the gods’ sake, have those men lash you tightly to the mast!

Trump Must Defend Apple, Consumer Privacy and U.S. Innovation from Europe

Margrethe Vestager, retiring after ten years as the European Union’s top antitrust regulator, managed to fire one more gut shot at a leading American company on the way out the door.

Andrew Stuttaford: “Brussels’ and Beijing’s Useful Idiots: Lina Khan and the ‘Khanservatives’”

Andrew Stuttaford has a great piece in National Review today. He demonstrates the danger of outgoing Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan handing off the antitrust baton to “Khanservative” Republican enablers to cooperate with an anti-American, protectionist EU against America’s most competitive industries.

“Andrew Ferguson to Head FTC an Excellent Decision by President-Elect Trump”

Robert H. Bork Jr., President of the Antitrust Education Project, reacts to President-elect Donald Trump’s’ selection of Federal Trade Commissioner Andrew Ferguson to serve as the agency’s next Chair

The Danger Behind DOJ’s Plan to Divest Google’s Chrome

Jonathan Kanter, outgoing chief of the Justice Department Antitrust Division, proposes that federal Judge Amit Mehta strip the world’s number one search company of its number one web browser, Chrome. The rationale is that Google owns 90 percent of the market for search, a claim that prompted Judge Mehta to uncritically declare Google a “monopolist” in search.

Trump Should Pull the Plug on the Amazon Antitrust Lawsuit

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 the Damage Done by Khan at the FTC

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.

Voters’ Economic Stake in FTC’s Anti-American Protectionism

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.

What Will the Election Mean for Antitrust?

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.