We thank Diana Moss for the invitation to participate in the PPI Conference, where we shared our thoughts on why the "for-cause" protections for FTC Commissioners do not threaten separation of powers and should be preserved. Details in the posted paper. www.progressivepolicy.org/the-future-o...

Six years old…and still worth reading 🙂

Threats to Competition Policy in the Second Trump Administration: Is Antitrust Enforcement Following Alice Down the Rabbit Hole? My new blog post: www.promarket.org/2025/04/11/t...

Elon Musk says that no one has died because he slashed humanitarian aid. I went to South Sudan to check if that's true. It's not. Meet Peter, Achol and Evan, ages 10, 8 and 5. The reckless actions of the world's richest men are killing the world's poorest kids www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Cosmic inflation! This'll take your mind off the other stuff. www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

So much corruption and conflict with everything Elon touches. It should be no surprise to anyone that the agencies he has targeted first and most intensely -- CFPB and USAID -- both happen to stand in the way of his business plans. Shocker . . . but massively shameful for the US.

Thank you @promarket.bsky.social for the opportunity to participate in this thoughtful and timely symposium. www.promarket.org/2024/12/05/m...

Pleased to share that the fifth edition of my antitrust law casebook with Bill Kovacic and jbbecon.bsky.social has just been published. Our field is changing and the book provides updates and new perspectives. www.westacademic.com/Antitrust-La...

Business and economic thought instituted at least since the Reagan Revolution in the US have promoted firms’ narrowly self-interested, profit-maximizing conduct. This paradigm leads to social distrust and insufficient cooperation, @stevesalop.bsky.social explains www.promarket.org/2024/02/13/w...

The Review of Industrial Organization will be publishing what promises to be a very important symposium on the final 2023 Merger Guidelines.  My own (nontechnical) contribution is here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....