The Courts Are Rejecting Biden's Antitrust Crusade
The Biden administration's antitrust efforts are being shut down by judges, except for a single successful case where best-selling authors were involved.
The Biden administration's antitrust efforts are being shut down by judges, except for a single successful case where best-selling authors were involved.
Antitrust regulators don't seem to understand how the video game industry works.
It’s one of the most competitive industries in the world, and there’s no good reason to stop Microsoft from acquiring Activision Blizzard.
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Do you want to brag about America’s alcohol industry, or do you want to crack down on it?
Government often proves to be biased against large, successful companies that legislators don't understand well but customers love.
''The kind of values I've always embraced are heard more on Fox than on CNN and MSNBC," says the Pulitzer Prize–winning progressive journalist.
The legislation is likely to have a number of negative consequences for consumers.
Attacking big firms just for being big could drive up prices.
Protectionist policies stymie trade and make Americans poorer.
Today's big powerful companies could become tomorrow's also-rans, no government intervention required.
Those who demand a revival of antitrust regulation to "promote competition" may not realize that they're inciting a revival of cronyism to suppress competition.
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Legislators on a crusade against monopolies should tackle occupational licensing boards before they target Big Tech.
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In the name of fostering innovation and choice, the bill would accomplish neither.
Federal subsidies for higher education lead to market distortions that affect financially needy students.
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Amazon promotes products that mimic its competition? Welcome to more than a century of American retail practices.
The Prohibition-era three-tier system is causing consolidation, not the market.
"Maybe one billionaire with a penchant for destroying democracies shouldn’t be allowed to own so much of the internet," says the representative from New York.
The Reason senior editor argues that attempts to break up tech giants and rein in social media are based on flawed arguments.
An onslaught of antitrust and data-security crackdowns have threatened the country's biggest ride-sharing platforms, cryptocurrency exchanges, and messaging services.
Today's antitrust activists forget that big companies with significant market share come and go.
New empirical research suggests the answer is yes.
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Taken together, these six measures would have a major impact on the way we shop, chat, and otherwise go about our business online.
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"Hospitals cannot agree to cap nurses' income in order to create a 'purer' form of helping the sick. News organizations cannot join forces to curtail pay to reporters to preserve a 'tradition' of public-minded journalism."
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How reactionary politicians are using monopoly concerns as cover to pursue pre-existing political agendas
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A new antitrust suit targets third-party seller agreements.