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Writing by John Tamny and Parkview contributors, from the latest commentary to the collected archive.
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Clear filters“Do you honestly think you’re going to replace this?” The previous question should be printed and framed in poster-sized fashion at the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) antitrust trust division. The…
Back in the early 1990s, an oil-change service business ran a clever ad campaign which said “We’re not trying to change your oil, we’re trying to change your oil.” Get it? The ad springs to mind as…
Visa is one of the country’s most accepted credit and debit cards, with the company’s motto boasting: “Everywhere you want to be.” To the federal government, Visa’s widespread utility for cardholders…
Google is on trial against the Department of Justice (DOJ) for allegedly holding a monopoly on digital ad technology. At issue, according to the Justice Department, is that Google acquired several…
If TikTok were in fact a front for the CCP, it wouldn’t possess the American investment to be a front.
It has always been said that Amazon killed off the local bookstore. How could what profoundly increased access to books and the fun of reading them have killed off local stores?
Last Tuesday Nvidia shed over $279 billion in value. It was the biggest one-day paper loss for a corporation in the history of the stock market. As a CNN report put it, “only 27 companies on the…
“When goods don’t cross borders, soldiers will.” There’s no documented evidence that the great 19th century free thinker Frederic Bastiat penned or spoke the previous line, but it doesn’t really…
Pardon 170 million users for perhaps thinking the DOJ’s “forceful case” is much less than serious.
No question Donald Trump won the first presidential debate, even if being present was all it took. But The Donald missed an opportunity he shouldn’t pass up on the next one — the opportunity to brand…
Select Language DOJ Should Change Its Tune On Live Nation Antitrust Lawsuit A few years ago, a prominent DC lobbyist told me no one could compete against America’s tech giants. He stated, “We used to…
Lopez is the embodiment of the major risks Live Nation took to get where it is, and how perilous its status will always be given the massive uncertainty (remember Tower Records, Friday Night Videos,…
Former attorney general William Barr is at it again with his overnight conversion to “monopoly” critic. He claims that if “allowed to dominate AI,” Microsoft, Google and Amazon “could reinforce and…
Live Nation’s reward for risking everything on an uncertain tomorrow is a lawsuit from a federal government eager to tear it town.
TikTok is set for a September court appearance to contest the decision of Congress and the Biden administration to force the app to divest or cease operations. Let’s hope it prevails. The ink hadn’t…
Economists near monolithically believe the Fed can decree “easy money” via its funds rate, that government spending grows the economy, and that by pushing its funds rate low, the Fed can engineer…
To read about the DOJ’s antitrust suit against Live Nation isn’t to find offense, but to realize that Live Nation saw a future amid a fraught time for the industry that its competitors did not. And…
The simple truth is that genius is rarely transferable, and the fact that it isn’t can almost certainly be found in TikTok’s resistance to a sale.
What these substantial investments signal is that while their critics view Meta, Google and Microsoft as monopolies, they plainly don’t feel that way.
If the Seattle giant is unequal to the future, this will be revealed in the marketplace. For now, how foolhardy for media members to harass Amazon’s present efforts to discover the future.
A a non-compete clause ban would eviscerate roughly 1/5th of employment agreements in the U.S., and as evidenced by the number, it would increase the cost of hiring for some employers to the…
Let’s be real. With the exception of a few die-hards, the only reason anyone knows when Donald Trump posts his “Truths” is because they read about it on platforms they actually care about.
The FTC’s lawsuit runs at cross purposes with its stated intent of fostering competition. If the FTC really is spooked by Meta’s market power and size, it should get out of the way.
Americans should be free to patronize any social media site they want for political information and thought, the empirical truth is that Americans in general, and young Americans in particular, don’t…
