#Anticompetitive

Thoughts on the Klobuchar antitrust bill.1. Q: Is competition falling in the US economy, and market power rising? A: Probably not – see this thread. Profits seem to be going
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The FTC just voted to settle charges regarding an illegal casino merger agreement between Caesars and Eldorado. The proposed settlement is risky and will not immediately remedy the anticompetitive harm
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There is a strand of thought that ties the problems of online speech and digital media to the market dominance of, e.g., Facebook, and recasts them as antitrust issues. While
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Facebook's decision to pull out of Australia, and Google's decision to strike deals with local publishers, isn't the morality play people think.It's much more about whether businesses should be able
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The quest to bring antitrust law to bear against tech companies is finally paying off, but it's been a long, hard slog. At the vanguard have been two legal scholars:
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My main takeway from the CMA's Digital Ads market study is that it reads like policy-based evidence making. The govt already announced that it was going with the Furman recommendations,
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You hear lots about how tech monopolies arose due to supposedly inevitable factors like "network effects," but you don't hear much about banal, sleazy tactics that were banned until the
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We are living in a golden age of predatory capitalism, in which businesses that generate real value and stable employment are being destroyed by deep-pocketed quasi-tech firms that lose money
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US Soccer and FIFA both filed motions to dismiss yesterday in the antitrust lawsuit filed against them by Relevent Sports for failing to permit regular season league matches from Spain
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Big tech companies have used tying to extend their dominance into new markets. Short thread on this unfair practice and the still good law on it. Tying is when a
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Unless you're a certain kind of conservative, you probably haven't heard of Robert Bork, but he's one of the most important people you've never heard of. The best way to
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The tech hearing is delayed about an hour to allow time to clean the room between hearings, @business is hearing This gives me time to drink more coffee and set
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The ACCC rejected the insufficient conditions w/ which DG Comp cleared Google-Fitbit. The EC decision shows a lack of courage and a refusal to learn from past mistakes. Having worked
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The ACCC rejected the insufficient conditions w/ which DG Comp cleared Google-Fitbit. The EC decision shows a lack of courage and a refusal to learn from past mistakes. Having worked
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The Big Tobacco vs. Big Tech hearings. Here they are swearing in -- it's own sort of iconic image. Here's @Kellen_Browning on Webex's big moment:https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/07/29/technology/tech-ceos-hearing-testimony/the-
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Hard to know what's more bonkers about this story: that Citibank "accidentally" sent $175m to a hedge fund called Brigade Capital, or that Brigade is refusing to return it.https://edition.cnn.com/2020/08/18/investing/citibank-
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