Innovation
FTC Goes Way Too Far on Noncompete Agreements The full text is below and can be found in a PDF here. By Paul Steidler Noncompete agreements generate strong views. They are widespread and, in many cases, nasty and pernicious. They are also often essential for ensuring that small businesses and entr ...
‘Khanservatives’ Have Radical Economic Beliefs The full text is below and can be found in the PDF here. By Paul Steidler Is there common ground among the most progressive elements of the Biden Administration and Senator Josh Hawley, Senator J.D. Vance, Congressman Matt Gaetz, and other Republicans? ...
Bureaucratic Screw-Ups Stall New FTC Commissioners The full text is below and can be found in the PDF here. Bureaucratic Screw-Ups Stall New FTC Commissioners By Paul Steidler When the President and the US Senate want something from the bureaucracy, it usually happens immediately, but not in the case o ...
Federal Trade Commission Should Revise Budget Priorities (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 “eliminate unnecessary expenses and scrutinize better how the American people’s money is b ...
A Discussion With Ashley Baker On The FTC’s New Commissioners The video can be viewed here. The full text is below and can be found in the PDF here. A Discussion with Ashley Baker on the FTC’s New Commissioners Paul Steidler: Good afternoon. I'm Paul Steidler with the Lexington Institute, and I'm joined by Ashley ...
The FTC’s FY 2025 Budget Request: Five Things To Know The full text is below and can be found in the PDF here. The FTC’s FY 2025 Budget Request: Five Things to Know By Paul Steidler This past Monday the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued its Fiscal Year 2025 Congressional Budget Justification, asking f ...
No Such Thing As ‘Unfair Pricing’ In America’s Dynamic Economy The full text is below and can be found in the PDF here. President Biden and his administration are on the warpath this week against "unfair pricing." The only problem: It does not exist. More specifically, the White House announced today a “strike for ...
It’s Open Season On U.S. Companies From Europe, And Beyond (From RealClearMarkets) On March 6, the European Commission is expected to celebrate its onerous implementation of new regulatory restrictions against five large U.S. technology leaders: Alphabet (Google), Amazon, Apple, Meta (Facebook), and Microsoft. That’s the deadline for ...
House Judiciary Committee Calls Out FTC Leadership’s Bad Practices Need some encouragement that official Washington is not broken when it comes to checks and balances? Exhibit A is a February 22 report by the House Judiciary Committee shining a bright spotlight on broad and deep concerns that career civil servants at ...
Congress To The FTC: Stop Attacking The U.S.’s Entrepreneurial Spirit (From RealClearMarkets) On February 12, Representative James Comer, Chair of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, threw down the gauntlet to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), demanding the Committee interview five of its leaders about the FTC’s audacious polici ...