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...

NEW: Our @dylangyauchl.bsky.social has a book review for Dan Wang's Breakneck out in @theslingutah.bsky.social. Give it a read! www.thesling.org/on-the-optim...

www.thesling.org/major-league... My latest for The Sling is a classic story! Nearly 20 years ago, we argued in The Wages of Wins that baseball doesn't need salary controls because money can't buy happiness. And here we are again! Good to be playing the old favorites! @halsinger.bsky.social

Warning: To prebut arguments from defenders of price-discrimination, I used figures and basic welfare concepts. Apologies in advance. Delta’s execs told us this month that the AI-based strategy is *increasing* unit revenues. That really should end the debate on output effects.

If Delta were implementing AI-based personalized pricing on its own, that would be bad for travelers. That Delta is using a common algorithm from an GenAI airline pricing consultant makes it even worse. My latest here: www.thesling.org/deltas-ai-ba...

I have a new piece up at @theslingutah.bsky.social, co-authored with Gavin Sicard, that examines whether Big Tech and Microsoft in particular has shared any of the AI-based productivity gains with its workers in the form of higher wages. Lots of cool graphs. www.thesling.org/microsoft-sa...

Are divestitures a bad thing? @halsinger.bsky.social and Darren Bush brought @econliberties.bsky.social's Laurel Kilgour onto the podcast to discuss this issue plus other remedies on the table in the Google search antitrust case. www.thesling.org/video/slings... Go give it a watch!

Here's my piece in @theslingutah.bsky.social on this investigation. www.thesling.org/the-ftc-shou...

Calls to deregulate permitting can’t be divorced from the energy-intensive data center boom being fueled by AI and crypto. By our @kennystancil.bsky.social in @theslingutah.bsky.social www.thesling.org/why-big-oil-...

New piece by @halsinger.bsky.social: the next Democratic campaign should focus on the replacement of lost government jobs and the creation of new government jobs, not government spending. Check it out! www.thesling.org/skip-the-spe...

In @theslingutah.bsky.social, I argue Chair Ferguson has sacrificed the FTC's credibility and independence by pursuing Musk's vendetta against @mmfa.bsky.social. I am deeply disappointed in the agency where I began my career. www.thesling.org/the-ftc-shou...

New article from Mark Glick, Gabriel Lozada, and Darren Bush. More damning criticisms to various versions of surplus theories of welfare, plus some discussion of the competitive process standard. Catch it in the Int'l J. of Pol. Econ. (peer-reviewed) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New in The Sling by Dylan Gyauch-Lewis: "One thing the Trump administration has cast into doubt that gets little air time is the usefulness of neoclassical economic theory in explaining the economy." www.thesling.org/trump-shatte...

Tomorrow at Loyola University of Chicago Law School: A Celebration of Harry First, complete with a book launch in his honor.

John Newman is interviewed by @halsinger.bsky.social and Darren Bush on the FTC's case to unwind Facebook's acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp. And output as a measure of welfare. Check it out. www.thesling.org/video/slings...

As Musk and Trump dismantle the federal government, corporate power is going unchecked. But all is not lost. In my latest op-ed in @TheSlingUtah, I lay out how states still have powerful tools to fight oligarchy—and protect democracy. Here's what they must do 🧵

Can you break up Amazon without breaking up Amazon? Peter Carstensen and Darren Bush examine the potential of using a condo or coop model of ownership as a remedy. Catch it in the UC Law Journal. #Antitrust www.hastingslawjournal.org/breaking-up-...

Many economists advocate free trade. But, does it even work? Today in the Sling. Mark Glick and Gabriel Lozada discuss the failed assumptions of free trade. Check it out! #Econtwitter #Antitrust #tariffs www.thesling.org/the-failed-a...

Given President Trump's #LiberationDay, a timely piece on tariffs.

Many economists advocate free trade. But, does it even work? Today in the Sling. Mark Glick and Gabriel Lozada discuss the failed assumptions of free trade. Check it out! #Econtwitter #Antitrust #tariffs www.thesling.org/the-failed-a...

The One Agency Act is a good first step. But it does not go far enough, argues Darren Bush. Let's create the Zero Agency Act and make antitrust enforcement efficient. #Antitrust #Econtwitter www.thesling.org/the-zero-age...

www.thesling.org/the-wnba-lab... I wrote an article for @theslingutah.bsky.social on the labor dispute that appears to be coming to the WNBA. A brief thread on why this dispute is all about the choices the NBA is making. ht @halsinger.bsky.social

Is a merger efficiency defense/rebuttal a good idea? No, argues Gabriel Lozada, Bob Lande, Mark Glick and Darren Bush. (Authors happy to provide copy if the paywall gets you). #Antitrust doi.org/10.1177/0003....

Professor @mehrsab.bsky.social talks to Hal Singer and Darren Bush about her book "The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America." Buy the book, and watch/listen to the podcast. www.thesling.org/video/slings...

Well, this is awkward. www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives...

The latest in the Sling: Dylan Gyauch-Lewis asks the question whether the government should subsidize AI. "...you can develop cutting edge AI with orders of magnitude less money and energy than we’ve been told." Check it out! www.thesling.org/should-the-g...

Academics sometimes appear to think the per se presumption should be cast aside. Not, so, Peter Carstensen says, and if you watch what courts do and not what they say, they appear to agree. Check it out. #Antitrust www.thesling.org/look-at-what...

In a new piece in The Sling, Darren Bush warns about being too exuberant about FTC Chairman Ferguson's X posts, one way or another, and the keeping of the Merger Guidelines. Check it out. #Antitrust #Econtwitter www.thesling.org/is-the-new-f...

In a new piece in The Sling, Darren Bush warns about being too exuberant about FTC Chairman Ferguson's X posts, one way or another, and the keeping of the Merger Guidelines. Check it out. #Antitrust #Econtwitter www.thesling.org/is-the-new-f...

www.thesling.org/the-ncaa-pro... Here is my latest for The Sling! A brief thread... If you do the math, the NCAA -- in their new media deal for women -- managed to get LESS money for volleyball, softball, and gymnastics than before! @theslingutah.bsky.social @halsinger.bsky.social

Utah Project authors Mark Glick, Gabriel Lozada, and Darren Bush tackle why Antitrust turned hard right in the 1970s. The answer is a bit more nuanced. Check it out! #Antitrust escholarship.org/uc/item/74b9...

Utah Project authors Mark Glick, Gabriel Lozada, and Darren Bush tackle why Antitrust turned hard right in the 1970s. The answer is a bit more nuanced. Check it out! #Antitrust escholarship.org/uc/item/74b9...

New piece up on The Sling by Venu Julapalli, a practicing gastroenterologist who just completed law school, on the structural problems in the American health care system, as encapsulated by the UnitedHealth Group. www.thesling.org/we-are-livin...

We interviewed Katie J. Wells about her new study on the Uberization of nurses for the Slingshot. Check it out! www.thesling.org/video/slings...

Sling Authors Mark Glick, Gabriel Lozada and Darren Bush write for @INETeconomics about the need for a normative reboot for Antitrust. Discussion of consumer welfare and the NB "competitive process" and the problems of both. www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives... #Antitrust

What do the Lords of Easy Money at the Fed *really* think about their fellow FDIC board member, Rohit Chopra? Do they want the CFPB "deleted"? Or do they appreciate his dollar movie nights? NEW secret meeting minutes EXPOSED in @theslingutah.bsky.social satire www.thesling.org/fed-up-with-...

The latest Slingshot is posted. @johnffarrell.bsky.social explains the problem with monopoly utilities. Full interview is here: With @halsinger.bsky.social and Darren Bush. www.thesling.org/video/slings...

Innocent monopolists are under siege by regulators and enforcers who just hate success. Some are now making do with counsel charging *under* $2600/hour. To save our national champions, I made a starter pack of affirmative defenses in @theslingutah.bsky.social www.thesling.org/in-house-cou...

A satirical starter pack Defendant's Affirmative Defenses in Antitrust by Laurel Kilgour. www.thesling.org/in-house-cou...