Antitrust action also faces a public choice problem in that regulators often exercise their powers to promote their own preferred policy positions. This dynamic leads to intense lobbying by regulated entities both for relief from regulation and for the benefits of barriers to entry that limit competition from potential rivals. The Competitive Enterprise Institutes advocates abolishing antitrust law, removing remaining government monopolies, and preventing the creation of new ones.
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After Too Big To Fail, Too Big To Merge?
Did antitrust ideology play a role in the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and the slight contagion that destabilized the global banking system thereafter?…

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Rep. Duncan Leads Letter Expressing Concern over Foreign Regulatory Overreach
I’ve written before about the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority, its main antitrust regulator. It has already blocked one US company from taking over another…

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Some Things are Just Business, Not Politics – and That’s a Good Thing
The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) was the predictable venue for Newsmax CEO Chris Ruddy to portrait DirecTV’s recent decision to stop carrying the channel…
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A Defective Product: Consumer Groups’ Study of Microsoft In Need of Recall
View Full Document as PDF Consumer groups are supposed to be on the side of consumers. But three such groups – the…
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The Exxon-Mobil Merger: The Lessons of History
The proposed Exxon-Mobil merger, the largest merger ever undertaken, has set nervous tongues wagging. Much of the concern stems from the perceived lessons of…
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Wal-Mart: Santa or Satan?
View Full Document as PDF As Christmas shoppers flock to Wal-Mart, filling its parking lots to overflowing, should they feel they’ve…
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Predation’s Problems (Continued)
The case against predatory pricing is much stronger than argued by Donald Boudreaux in "The Problem with Predation" (CEI UpDate, September 1998). Boudreaux relies primarily…
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Customers Granted Microsoft its 90 Percent Market Share
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Why Robert Bork Is Wrong:
Is there a clear legal precedent for the successful prosecution of Microsoft? Robert H. Bork seems to think so. He has stated emphatically…
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Richard Morrison
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Iain Murray
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Fred L. Smith Fellow in Regulatory Studies
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Jessica Melugin
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