Innovation
The Microsoft Russian Hack Raises Major Questions For Policymakers
In a legally required filing, Microsoft on January 19 disclosed that senior executives’ e-mail accounts had been hacked by “a nation-state associated threat actor” widely believed to be Nobelium, a cybercriminal group affiliated with Russia’s governmen ...
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 en ...
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 R ...
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, ...
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 marke ...
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 ac ...
Comments To Federal Trade Commission Supporting U.S. Chamber Of Commerce Petition For Rulemaking
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has petitioned the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to revise the rules and process by which a Commissioner will be disqualified from an adjudication or rule-making procedure if the Commissioner does not agree to a voluntary ...
The EU’s San Francisco Office For Attacking Silicon Valley (From RealClearMarkets)
While it is common for countries, states, and even cities to have business advocacy organizations in other nations, the European Union (EU) is doing a variation on this theme: setting up an office in San Francisco to constrain and exploit America’s tec ...
The Biden Administration Should Listen To Business, Not Lecture (From RealClearMarkets)
When federal bureaucracies veer outside their policy lane, claiming a mandate from the American people for audacious new actions, things get weird and broken. A case in point is Assistant Attorney General (AAG) Jonathan Kanter’s speech on Septembe ...
Comments On Draft Merger Guidelines To FTC And U.S. Department Of Justice
Below are comments filed by the Lexington Institute’s Paul Steidler to the Federal Trade Commission and U.S. Department of Justice’s docket on proposed new merger guidelines. The comments are also in the PDF document here and online as part of the dock ...