Is the Federal Trade Commission using the same deceptive advertising practices it’s supposed to police?
Big Tech
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Who’s Writing the 2020 Candidates’ Policies?
A survey of the advisers and staffers behind the leading presidential hopefuls
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Private Equity’s Next Leveraged Buyout Might Be the Oval Office
Several candidates who have taken donor cash from private-equity barons have remained silent about the threat posed by the industry.
Posted inLaw and Justice
AT&T Hires Verizon (Excuse Me?)
Why has one telecom giant hooked up with its chief rival—and what does it portend for their more than 200 million subscribers?
Posted inEconomic Policy
How Amazon Controls Its Marketplace
Amazon’s dominance doesn’t merely rely on competing with sellers on its platform. It extracts a deep cut from every transaction, at the expense of sellers and customers.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Cost-Benefit Boomerang
The right devised cost-benefit analysis to discredit regulation. Now this technique is showing massive net benefits, and the foes of environmental regulation are in a panic.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Trump’s Antitrust Cops Fail to Police Big Business—Again
The day after one regulator announces an investigation into Big Tech, another gives Facebook a wet kiss. It’s all part of a pattern.
Posted inTAP
Politicians Stop Being Polite and Start Getting Real-Time
In 2019, it’s still the case in America that if you deposit a check or have funds wired into your bank account, it can take up to five days for you to access your money. This puts the United States behind such advanced economies as India, Poland, and Kenya, the latter of which has had […]
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
July 16, 2019
Facebook’s Faltering on Libra. I previewed the week’s hearings for Big Tech today on the website, and I wondered whether Silicon Valley would have any allies on Capitol Hill left. It turns out they have a few, but not nearly enough. David Marcus, a vice president of Facebook, testified at the Senate Banking Committee today […]
Posted inLaw and Justice
A Week of Reckoning for Big Tech
The platform monopolies face three hearings on Capitol Hill that could define future actions against them.
