What Khan’s Non-Compete Loss Tells Us About the Fate of the Harris Price-Control Plan

Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan is always shopping for the right judge to validate her eccentric, extra-statutory theories of antitrust as a way to regulate everything. Yet in case after case, Khan keeps coming up snake eyes.

Harris Economic Plan to Fight Inflation Will Cause More Inflation

Vice President Kamala Harris doubled down today in her Raleigh, North Carolina, speech on the same strategy that gave Americans inflation. Her plan promises more inflation, only this time with food shortages. Harris would do that by putting the government in charge of approving food prices, while extending the Biden budget blowout.

Tim Wu Wants a Hanging Judge for Google

Tim Wu took to the pages of The New York Times to suggest the punishments – I mean remedies – he wants Judge Amit Mehta to inflict on Google for monopolistic behavior. None of Wu’s punishments involve the Iron Maiden, but they are predictably extreme.

In a PrecariousTime, Biden/Harris Double Down on Progressive Antitrust

Winter is coming.

That’s the brutal message delivered on Friday – after an abysmal jobs report and the NASDAQ 100 plunging into correction territory. Maybe these chill winds are a warning and not an actual harbinger of an imminent recession. But one has to take note when Warren Buffett sells off his favorites to pile up mountains of cash.

Statement by Robert H. Bork Jr. on Google Antitrust Verdict

August 5, 2024 It is ironic that on the very day the U.S. stock market melted down over concerns about…

The ‘Business Concentration Narrative’ Is a Mirage

A House Small Business Committee staff report released by Representative Nydia Velázquez (D., N.Y.) late last year alleged that powerful corporations are concentrating markets to crush small businesses across the land. Dominant firms, the Democrats’ report claims, “manipulate markets, exploit loopholes, and leverage their immense power to squeeze their smaller competitors. As a result, the American economy has seen decades of growing income and wealth inequality during a period of dwindling dynamism.”

Statement by Robert H. Bork Jr. on Apple’s Motion to Dismiss US v. Apple

Apple’s motion to dismiss the Department of Justice antitrust case is a total takedown.

When I worked with my father in the 1990s to support the government’s antitrust case against Microsoft, the situation was very different. Microsoft at that time maintained a stranglehold on 95 percent of the operating systems market. Microsoft strongarmed Apple, software developers, and internet access providers to exclude its competitors.

Sen. Paul Pledges to Repeal the “Harmful” Robinson-Patman Act

In 1933, Americans passed the 21st Amendment repealing the 18th Amendment, also known as Prohibition – aka, the stupidest law in American history. Three years later, Congress passed the Robinson-Patman Act, a reasonable contestant for the second-stupidest law in American history.

Is Google Map Win in Federal Court a Sign of Things to Come?

Is the rejection of developers’ claims in a class-action lawsuit against Google by a federal judge in Northern California a sign that the Department of Justice’s large, antitrust lawsuit against the high-tech company could be on shaky ground in federal court?

Will a Trump-Vance Administration Double Down on Progressive Antitrust?

Donald Trump’s selection of Sen. J.D. Vance as his running mate – and now, likely Vice President – has a heroic, almost Teddy Roosevelt aspect to it. After Trump himself gamely survived an assassination attempt in the T.R. mold, he selected a man whose rise through military, academic and literary fame is almost as meteoric as that of the original Rough Rider.