One Ring to Rule Them All?
By: Georg Schmittmann (D'Kart)
In the epic fantasy novel “Lord of the Rings“, the evil Lord Sauron secretly forged the “One Ring”. His intentions were...
CPI Blog o’ Blogs December 2012
December 2012, Volume 2, Number 12
While two key antitrust issues - a potential Google-FTC settlement & the vote on Wright for the FTC - remain unresolved,...
Blog o’ Blogs June 2015
June 2015, Volume 5, Number 6
Besides the latest from SCOTUS, DG Comp, and the U.S. regulators, we have a number of international contributions this...
Why There Needs to Be More, not Less, Consolidation in Video...
By: Dirk Auer (Truth on the Market)
Recent commentary on the proposed merger between WarnerMedia and Discovery, as well as Amazon’s acquisition of MGM, often has included...
The Real Monopoly is In The Boardroom
By: Ramsi Woodcock (The FinReg Blog)
We have always thought of the problem of monopoly as a problem of size or of markets. We say that...
Biden Proposes Government Actually Try to Create Broadband Competition
By: Sean Gonsalves & Christopher Mitchell (The American Prospect)
Doug Seacat, founder of the Ridgway, Colorado–based IT consulting company Deeply Digital, got a call several...
How to Fix the Courts’ Misuse of Economics
By: Michael L. Katz (Pro Market)
eginning in the 1970s, economics has played an increasingly large and explicit role in US antitrust decision making. This trend began...
State Aid and Essential National Interest
By: Phedon Nicolaides (Lexxion)
State aid should support outcomes that the market by itself cannot achieve. This implies that State aid that is restricted to only...
Legitimate Expectations and the “Right” to State Aid
By: Phedon Nicolaides (State Aid Uncovered)
As the process of transition to green economy accelerates, Member States have been reducing the subsidies they promised to...
Did Antitrust Kill the Radio Star?
By: Jon Cieslak (The Antitrust Attorney)
Many guitarists and rock music fans have recently gotten to know Rick Beato. Beato is a musician, music producer, and,...