Given the recent Epic Games ruling and controlling law, Google’s (attempted) move to kill all alternative methods of installing apps on Android and to require all applications to go through its exclusive system would violate antitrust laws. tuta.com/blog/google-...

Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...

Meet the Big Money backers of the so-called "Abundance" movement.

Corporations want our entire society to bend to their will. Delaware gave corporations basically everything just short of complete control and has an entire legislative apparatus devoted to appeasement—and that's apparently just not enough. www.wsj.com/opinion/why-...

A govt shutdown is like a strike in the sense that before you start it you MUST have a concrete idea of what your leverage is and what will cause your opponent to fold. Ironically the Dems' strongest leverage point was probably "fucked up Thanksgiving travel" and they folded just before it came.

Chuck Schumer's inability to say whether he voted for the Democratic nominee in a general election in his city is the final straw for @ryanlcooper.com. prospect.org/2025/11/06/c...

The Supreme Court once again butchers equity and the law of stays in the course of making the world a worse place. And Justice Jackson is once again there to call them out on it with an opinion that will be a must-teach in any Remedies class www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

FYI. We don’t have to accept efficiency as a synonym for firing workers. We can block/limit job-cutting strategies and incentivize firms to pursue efficiency built on skill and human input.

I think the AWS outage is a warning shot. It’s clear the cloud must be regulated as a public utility and Signal must be updated to support decentralized, user-operated servers to break free from dominant cloud providers. What do others think?

Concerning, bc it indicates that the extent of the concentration of power in the hands of a few hyperscalers is way less widely understood than I’d assumed. Which bodes poorly for our ability to craft reality-based strategies capable of contesting this concentration & solving the real problem. 2/

📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms). It’s also concerning. 1/

Reminder: SCOTUS asked the Solicitor General for their input on the Duke Energy Carolinas lawsuit—a incredibly important case that could kneecap yet another aspect of Section 2. www.scotusblog.com/cases/case-f...

There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles. Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8

I cannot think of a more perfect moment for Linux and Apple than right now. Software developers should use Microsoft’s purposeful abandonment of Windows 10 (and the hundreds of millions of PCs that still run it) to free themselves from the company’s control. www.tomshardware.com/software/ope...

Many excellent amicus briefs in the Scotus tariff cases. Do they attest to the belief the system still works - or is it because no matter how small the hope scotus will do the right thing it’s still hope? Let me highlight some

“Half of the 136 newspaper closures in America over the past 14 months have been from independent, for-profit newspaper chains that own five or fewer for-profit papers," Full story: www.axios.com/2025/10/21/l...

Excited to share my new @openmarkets.bsky.social expert brief: “The Enduring Force of the Federal Antitrust Laws.” As I detail in this new paper, despite decades of judicial retreat, the federal antitrust laws remain powerful tools to fight monopoly power and corporate domination.

NEW today: Daniel Hanley's very compelling brief on how antitrust laws are some of the best tools we have to reduce prices, lower rents, boost wages, expand consumer choice, and help small businesses. www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...

Excited to share my new @openmarkets.bsky.social expert brief: “The Enduring Force of the Federal Antitrust Laws.” As I detail in this new paper, despite decades of judicial retreat, the federal antitrust laws remain powerful tools to fight monopoly power and corporate domination.

I used to focus on left versus right. Now I’m much more worried about the money at the top. But while it might seem strange to say it, I think this is a hopeful way of looking at the world that opens the door to coalitions that seemed impossible before. My first for the @newrepublic.com:

In an interview with PBS marketing his new book, former Justice Anthony Kennedy expresses no remorse about his Citizens United decision and instead "hopes" voters take into consideration which candidates are receiving lots of money. 🤬 youtu.be/jMneFUWkWJI?...

Read our response:

This actually is important. The (modified) per se rule on tying does constrain Big Tech behavior to some non-trivial degree. No accident Microsoft filed an amicus brief for defendants (whose petition failed)

CA just banned price fixing via algorithm across the economy! As corporations weaponize this technology to rip off consumers and hurt competition it's great to see @governor.ca.gov sign AB 325 to stop this practice! Here's our own Lee Hepner testifying in support of the bill earlier this year👇

Harold Meyerson sat in on a court case in LA which made clear that Amazon controls every aspect of the work experience of delivery driver "contractors" while claiming they are not a joint employer. It would be devastating in a world with actually functioning labor law.

Finally, a decent decision from the Supreme Court. Today, the Court denied a petition to get rid of the per se rule on tying. This is incredibly important (E.g., Google ad tech district court decision!). www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?...

3. Finally, we should reconsider the self coordinating market as a starting point because economic coordination is not a small exception or add-on to the basic picture: it is fundamental to economic life, in any form. It should get equal billing as a basic building block of any theory of the economy

It is weird and not healthy to begin every day wondering: "What outrageous thing will the U.S. government do today? Will it be unethical, unconstitutional, or all of the above?"

There’s something truly terrifying about how casually tech oligarchs now describe their plans to restructure society. They are publicly pitching to investors and governments a future where we are all obedient subjects under their control.

Hello! Here is my essay (still a draft) for a symposium held in the spring at the university of chicago. (Please note that the title of the symposium was set by the law review; I chose my essay title.) Comments are welcome. thesanjuktablog.wordpress.com/2025/10/03/n...

An important thing that is often ignored about Mamdani: he's cheerful! Taking the city's (and country's) problems seriously doesn't have to mean projecting nothing but darkness and rage. His positive vibe is an unbelievably effective way to make the tent bigger. As is fun/dorky stuff like this.

My book is out today! Read my stuff! academic.oup.com/book/60584?l... … The book looks at the long-run evolution of policy around monopoly and competition in the US and France over the 20th century, using extensive archival research to track the main policy actors who changed it at key moments.

AELP’s Katie Van Dyck says competitors don't need to directly communicate to collude. “It doesn’t have to be the old all defendants get in a smoke-filled room... They’re using the same tool collectively to set prices and it is upending traditional ideas of supply and demand.” #TCF2025TechConference

The Capitol Forum's 2025 Tech Conference has begun! Elizabeth Odette, the antitrust chief for the Office of the Minnesota Attorney General, delivered her keynote remarks: "The way we look at tech has evolved and continues to evolve," she said. "State Attorneys General are ready. Are you?"

Fortune writes an entire story about Sinclair's effort to ban Kimmel "to protect communities" without making a SINGLE reference to Sinclair's long history of airing election fraud conspiracy theories and medical disinformation

Great article by @megafreda.bsky.social! Thanks for the shoutout for my cloud work w/ @openmarkets.bsky.social (w/ @maxvonthun.bsky.social and @danielahanley.bsky.social)

If “caution” means allowing a defendant’s illegal behavior to persist, it defeats the purpose of finding liability in the first place and undermines the law enforcement function of antitrust law. www.promarket.org/2025/09/23/a...

Mainstream economics continues to rely on Newtonian mathematics — using calculus to optimise, subject to constraints, an approach not suited to understanding macroeconomics or human behavior. Nice shoutout to Vela Velupillai, my former professor at The New School www.ft.com/content/2925...

Come work with me, pals! #hiring

Welp, that’s 90 years of precedent down the tubes.

The Court is overruling federal laws, its own precedent, and lower court decisions, on the emergency docket which, quite simply, real courts do not do.

Remember, this decision isn’t about POTUS’s authority to remove officials for poor performance or the ability to enact the executive’s agenda. Instead, this decision is about whether dissent should exist at all in our regulatory system. SCOTUS effectively says it shouldn’t.

The Social Security and Medicare Funding Problems Are Real And Congress keeps making them worse with a budget process that’s broken. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/09/22/t...

"Louisiana planning authorities have voted to rush through approval for three natural gas turbines to power Meta’s massive new data center in Richland Parish. When it’s done, the 4-million-square-foot facility will require more than 2 gigawatts of energy to run."

2. US v Google 2: Remedies hearings start today in VA for the antitrust case against Google's ad tech monopoly. It's the last big case on the DOJ's deck against the corporation. Will be doing a little coverage for @techpolicy.press. More soon!

Quite a big day for antitrust trials again. 1. FTC v Amazon Prime kicks off today in Seattle with a jury trial (a rarity, recently seen in Epic Games v Google Play in SF). A good test before FTC v Amazon Online Retail -big monopoly case- goes to trial next year www.theverge.com/policy/78219...