Author Archives: Paul Steidler
Keep the EU Out Of America’s Business (From InsideSources DC Journal)
The European Union (EU), which has dismally failed to foster a business climate where tech companies can thrive, is now aiming to cripple America’s tech leaders, potentially also landing a body blow to the broader U.S. economy. More distressing is [Read More...]
Federal Trade Commission Should Halt Work With EU Regulators (Public Meeting Comments)
At today’s open meeting of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), whose attendees included Chair Lina Khan, Lexington Institute’s Paul Steidler called on the FTC to “cease and desist immediately” its discussions with European Union regulators regarding enforcement of the Digital [Read More...]
GOP Senate Dysfunction Aids Progressives Controlling The Federal Trade Commission (From The Hill)
Republican Senators gave Senator Elizabeth Warren and progressive ideologues running the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) an early Christmas present by failing to confirm three well-qualified nominees to be commissioners.
This unforced error shows that Republicans can be as dysfunctional in [Read More...]
House Democrats Happily Stand Up To EU Business Bullies (From RealClearMarkets)
Common sense and advocacy for free markets and innovation are alive and well in some quarters of the Democratic party.
Largely overlooked during the rush of the Christmas season, 22 members of the U.S. House of Representatives, including 12 Democrats, [Read More...]
FTC Chair Lina Khan Must Either Pivot, Or Face Irrelevance (From RealClearMarkets)
2023 will go down as one of the worst years in the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC’s) 109-year history. This is due to its activist, controversial Chair, Lina Khan, a close advocate of Senator Elizabeth Warren’s visceral, anti-business, anti-free market policies. [Read More...]
Postal Service Needs To Correct Its Financial Projections (From FEDweek)
The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) needs to scrap its financial projections in the 10-year Delivering for America (DFA) strategic plan and take a hard, comprehensive look at how it does financial forecasting. Its recent projections have been way off.
New [Read More...]
The Urgency Of Strengthening America’s Electric Grid Cybersecurity (From RealClearEnergy)
The U.S. electric grid continues to face a bevy of foreign and domestic cyberattack threats. Therefore, it makes more sense than ever before for utilities and transmission operators to aggressively fortify their cyber defenses. In fact, failure to do so [Read More...]
Five Fatal Flaws In Lina Khan’s Assessment Of Amazon (From RealClearMarkets)
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Lina Khan shot to notoriety with a 2017 article in The Yale Law Journal, “Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox,” where she charged that vigorous antitrust action should be taken against the company. She asserted this while acknowledging [Read More...]
How the Postal Service’s Finances So Quickly Returned To The Crisis Stage (From FEDweek)
On April 6, 2022 as President Biden signed the Postal Service Reform Act (PRSA), there was abounding yet misplaced optimism that the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) had turned the corner financially and would have a bright future.
Congress provided USPS [Read More...]
Fix America’s Dangerous International Mail System (From The National Interest)
While Congress overwhelmingly enacted legislation in 2018 to curtail opioids, fentanyl, and other illegal contraband from entering the United States via the international postal system, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has dropped the ball on enforcement. This has public [Read More...]