The term "populist" is often misused. Bruce Palmer, a history professor emeritus at the UH Clear Lake, and author of “Man Over Money: The Southern Populist Critique of American Capitalism,” offers a description of the original populists. www.thesling.org/reclaiming-t...

The term "populist" is often misused. Bruce Palmer, a history professor emeritus at the UH Clear Lake, and author of “Man Over Money: The Southern Populist Critique of American Capitalism,” offers a description of the original populists. www.thesling.org/reclaiming-t...

@inetoxford.bsky.social ED and Oxford economist @ericbeinhocker.bsky.social + entrepreneur, investor and economic thinker @nickhanauer.bsky.social have been building a new framework for how markets work—and who they work for. Beinhocker just took it to @HalSinger.bsky.social's Slingshot podcast. 🧵

If you're thinking about what comes after neoliberalism, this is the perfect conversation to start with. Full conversation at the link below ⬇ #EconSky

New Slingshot Episode in which @briancallaci.bsky.social discusses his new book, Chain of Command (Chicago Press), on the latest episode of The Slingshot with @halsinger.bsky.social and Darren Bush.

What's the difference between the protect competition standard and the consumer welfare standard? Well, Utah Project's Mark Glick, Gabriel Lozada, and Darren Bush have some answers. www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives...

New: Big Tech shouldn't be able to use a flimsy First Amendment defense as a get-out-of-jail-free card. Our @dylangyauchl.bsky.social defends the verdicts in Meta's recent trials for @theslingutah.bsky.social www.thesling.org/the-first-am...

In the Sling, @leehepner.bsky.social discusses "How to Overturn a Corrupt Merger Settlement." Check it out! www.thesling.org/how-to-overt...

Glick, Lozada, & Bush on Equality and Public Policy Mark Glick (University of Utah - College of Social & Behavioral Sciences - Department of Economics; Parsons Behle & Latimer), Gabriel A. Lozada (University of Utah - College of Social & Behavioral Sciences - Department of Economics), & Darren…

Zillow paid off its competitor Redfin to get out of the online rental listing market. Now it’s trying the anti-competitive playbook again, this time with Homes. com and online real estate listings. As reported by @theslingutah.bsky.social:

It is St. Patrick's Day, and there's a bill to amend the Tunney Act. Of course the late great John J. Flynn had a hand in all this timing, somehow.

In a housing affordability crisis, DOJ and FTC antitrust regulators must step in and fight illegal attempts by hedge funds to crush competition in the housing market. Learn more from @halsinger.bsky.social at @theslingutah.bsky.social

There’s a reason that companies love to make expansive, sometimes absurd, claims about market definition: as the Supreme Court has narrowed the scope of per se illegality in antitrust law, plaintiffs are required to demonstrate that defendants possess market power. 1/3

Senator Klobuchar's Tunney Act Amendment Press Release: www.klobuchar.senate.gov/public/index...

Darren Bush thanks @halsinger.bsky.social for his comments and edits to this piece.

The Tunney Act bill introduced by Senator Klobuchar is out! Darren Bush, who has written about the Tunney Act for decades, has some thoughts: www.thesling.org/why-voters-s...

Are @ezraklein.bsky.social and @dkthomp.bsky.social right on "abundance?" Is GDP a good measure for welfare? TL:DR-No. What really matters (both in terms of empirics and ethical theory) is distribution. Glick, Lozada, and Bush describe the literature and the data. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

It's incredibly hard to get people to understand how income inequality is strangling our economy because the wealthy with disposable income are bidding up paper assets rather than investing in actual production.

My reply to Shapiro’s and Yurukolgu’s new paper on what to make of more concentration and higher price/cost markups is available at @theslingutah.bsky.social www.thesling.org/a-celebratio...

If you want to see the difference between Blue Sky and X starkly contrasted, read the replies to my post there and compare to here. x.com/TheSlingUtah...

Are @ezraklein.bsky.social and @dkthomp.bsky.social right on "abundance?" Is GDP a good measure for welfare? TL:DR-No. What really matters (both in terms of empirics and ethical theory) is distribution. Glick, Lozada, and Bush describe the literature and the data. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

In The Sling today, @HalSinger has some thoughts and a Reply to Shapiro’s and Yurukoglu’s “Trends in Competition in the United States." Check it out! www.thesling.org/a-celebratio...

Sandeep Vaheesan argues in @TheSlingUtah that antitrust enforcers should challenge large-scale union-busting and other lawbreaking using the Sherman and FTC Acts. Check it out! www.thesling.org/union-bustin...

The University of Utah (a non-profit institution) wants to work directly with a for-profit private equity firm in college sports. I explain at @theslingutah.bsky.social why it seems both the university and the firm don't truly understand the college business. www.thesling.org/can-private-...

Check out @wagesofwins.bsky.social's new piece in @TheSlingUtah. "Can Private Equity Save Athletics at the University of Utah?" www.thesling.org/can-private-...

Thanks to @halsinger.bsky.social and @theslingutah.bsky.social for publishing my latest piece on the market structure implications of surveillance pricing:

In the latest Slingshot Podcast, @halsinger.bsky.social and Darren Bush interview @basel.bsky.social on all things eggs, beef, housing, and abundance. Check it out! www.thesling.org/video/slings...

New in @theslingutah.bsky.social, @halsinger.bsky.social and Jacob Linger examines how antitrust enforcers and courts will think about market definition in the pending Netflix-Warner Brothers merger. www.thesling.org/the-netflix-...

I have a new piece on The Sling explaining how algorithms on Amazon work to "raise prices 24/7". Key point: repricers "wait their turn" to get the Buy Box, then hike prices while matching each other. Who loses? Consumers. www.thesling.org/how-algorith...

In his latest, @halsinger.bsky.social explores how Airbnb provides homeshares a common pricing algorithm, called “Smart Pricing,” that serves to coordinate pricing of rental units on its platform. Check it out! www.thesling.org/the-antitrus...

In his latest, @halsinger.bsky.social explores how Airbnb provides homeshares a common pricing algorithm, called “Smart Pricing,” that serves to coordinate pricing of rental units on its platform. Check it out! www.thesling.org/the-antitrus...

This @nytimes.com article adds useful context to the trend I discussed in @theslingutah.bsky.social . Well worth a read. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/t...

In our latest Slingshot, @halsinger.bsky.social and Darren Bush interview @superwuster.bsky.social about his new book, The Age of Extraction, and Tim’s recent NY Times opinion piece on the Facebook-Instagram decision. Go give it a listen—and then go read his book! www.thesling.org/video/slings...

“[W]ith each unprofessional, craven political stunt Chair Ferguson pulls with the FTC…Chair Ferguson burns the FTC’s credibility.” I wrote in @theslingutah.bsky.social about the FTC’s recent comments about Judge Boasberg. www.thesling.org/the-attack-o...

Ted Tatos has a new piece in @theslingutah.bsky.social explaining why a 50-year mortgage, the new proposal from the White House, doesn't create more home owners, just maybe more mortgages and more interest payments. Check it out! www.thesling.org/a-50-year-mo...

Advocates will pounce on a Nobel prize in economics to promote their policy agenda. They find a strand of the work by the winners, spin it into their narrative, and voila, their pet theory is proven right. My latest on the meaning of this year’s Nobel prize. www.thesling.org/deciphering-...

In a new piece, Peter Carstensen, Emeritus U. of Wisconsin Law Professor, explains that if the Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern merger is allowed, there should be separation between ownership of the tracks and operation of the freight services on those tracks. www.thesling.org/to-preserve-...

The latest Slingshot features Erik Peinert, professor of political science at BU and author of the new book, Monopoly Politics. We discussed whether antitrust enforcement will go dormant again, or whether anti-monopoly politics are here to stay. Enjoy! www.thesling.org/video/slings...

No, progressives aren't pushing degrowth. Read our @dylangyauchl.bsky.social's latest in @theslingutah.bsky.social! www.thesling.org/the-hollowne...

I am on a mission to get the business press to stop blaming consumers for industrywide price hikes, and instead look at the companies actually setting prices. Or in the case of Vegas hotels, companies turning over their pricing decisions to a common pricing agent. www.thesling.org/why-did-hote...

Will Google’s AI Overviews swallow the news? www.thesling.org/will-googles...

New on The Sling: Seth Frotman writes about the common interest of small business, workers, and consumers: Fighting corporate abuse. Check it out! www.thesling.org/standing-wit...

"Letting Google keep right on engaging in most of its harmful conduct entails real costs for consumers and society at large. This remedies opinion consciously chooses to inflict those costs based on a “hope” of good things happening in the future" 🙈

DDC Judge Sooknanan rightfully blocked the FTC’s CID to @mmfa.bsky.social as unconstitutional. The opinion is worth a read ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

"A Judge Just Decided to Let Google Keep Breaking the Law," a new post by John Newman. . Check it out! www.thesling.org/a-judge-just...

Dan Hanley's latest in The Sling argues in favor of structural remedies in modern monopolization cases. Check it out! www.thesling.org/antitrust-li...

PBM Nightmare! Venu Julapalli, a practicing gastroenterologist and recent UH Law grad, writes about PBMs, gives a concrete example of the health nightmares PBM consolidation has created. Check it out: www.thesling.org/prior-author...

Darren Bush writes about the history of the Tunney Act. And while not all of the cases are in the DC Circuit, the vast majority are, and other circuits rely on DC Circuit caselaw and experience. Only one Tunney Act consent decree rejection. Ever. www.thesling.org/no-the-tunne...

Randy Kim's latest in the Sling: "The Abundance Movement’s Blindside: How Economic Concentration Fuels Political Capture in the Post-Citizens United Era." Adding to the abundance of failures in the abundance movement. Check it out! www.thesling.org/the-abundanc...

Choo choo! Choo choo! Choo choo! Choo! -- History of Train mergers In The Sling, @halsinger.bsky.social explains why "The Trump Administration Should Tap the Brakes on the Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern Merger" Check it out! www.thesling.org/the-trump-ad...