Opinion
- FTC. “The FTC’s Breathtaking Power Grab.” By Eugene Scalia. [Its proposed prohibition of noncompete agreements would quash 47 state laws and 30 million contracts.] 1-13-23
- FTC. “’Hipster’ Antitrust Foes Beltway.” By Holman w. Jenkins, Jr. [The FTC’s Lina Khan goes along to get along with her Microsoft lawsuit.] 1-18-23
- FTC. “Chamber of Commerce Will fight FTC.” By Suzanne P. Clark. [We’ll go to court if necessary to stop the legally baseless ban on noncompete clauses.] 1-23-23
- FTC. “Lina Khan Goes Back to the Antitrust future.” By Timothy J. Muris. [Biden’s reactionary FTC head seeks to resurrect precedents that were out of date 40 years ago.] 1-31-23
- FTC. “The FTC Can’t See the Future.” By Andy Kessler. [The agency litigates videogame consoles, which will be irrelevant in 10 years.] 2-6-23
- FTC. “Lina Khan Chalks Up Another Defeat.” [A federal judge tosses the FTC’s Meta suit as lacking enough evidence.] 2-7-23
- FTC. “The Many Abuses of Lina Khan’s FTC.” [Christine Wilson’s resignation highlights the agency’s bad turn.] 2-15-23
- FTC. “Why I’m Resigning From the FTC.” By Christine Wilson. [Lina Khan’s disregard for the rule of law and due process make it impossible for me to continue serving.] 2-15-23
- FTC. “The FTC’s Antiturst Collusion.” [Emails suggest the agency is working with foreign regulators to scuttle U.S. mergers.] 2-24-23
- FTC. “Congress Can Investigate Lina Khan.” By Robert H. Bork Jr. [There’s a precedent: The House looked into FCC Chairman Kevin Martin on similar grounds.] 3-3-23
- FTC. “Josh Hawley, Meet Lina Khan.” [The FTC ells Twitter to turn over its media contracts and access.] 3-9-23
- FTC. “The FTC’s Unholy Antitrust Grail.” [The agency overrules its own law judges to block Illumina’s acquisition.] 4-4-23
- FTC. “How to Hamstring U.S. Companies.” [FTC Chair Lina Khan wants the EU to do what Congress won’t let her.] 4-20-23
- FTC. “Lina Khan Blocks Cancer Cures.” By John Tamny. [Illumina’s acquisition of Grail would save lives, and it’s crazy to call it a monopoly.] 4-28-23
- FTC. “Antitrust Gone Wild Against Amgen.” [No theory is too strange for Lina Khan’s FTC to block a merger.] 5-19-23
- FTC. “Car Sopping ain’t Broke, so the FTC Will Fix It.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [The internet vastly improved theprocess but Lina Khan can still make the bad parts worse.] 6-3-23
- FTC. “Antitrust Officials Pile on the Paperwork.” By Christopher Williams and Henry Hauser. [The FTC and Justice Department would make merger filings $350 million costlier.] 7-5-23
- FTC. “Lina Khan Whiffs Again.” [A judge tosses the FTC’s case against Microsoft’s Activision purchase.] 7-12-23
- FTC. “Lina Khan’s Artificial Intelligence.” 7-14-23
- FTC. “Lina Khan Needs to See ‘Shark Tank.’” By Richard B. McKenzie. [Kevin O’Leary would never invest in a business that had to face conditions of ‘perfect competition.’] 7-27-23
- FTC. “Khan’s Weak Case Against Amazon.” [The FTC Chair defines monopoly down to harpoon the retailer.] 9-28-23
- FTC. “Brain Death at the FTC and FCC.” By Holman W Jenkins, Jr. [Net neutrality and Amazon show why Congress needs to kill agencies as well as crating new ones.] 10-7-23
- FTC. “The FTC’s Gift to Walmart.” [Lina Khan won’t let two grocery chains merge to get more competitive.] 2-27-24
- FTC. “Lina Khan Wears Prada.” [The FTC hits comedic heights in fighting a luxury goods merger.] 4-29-24
- FTC. “Lina Khan’s Failed FT Experiment.” By J. Howard Beales III and Timothy J. Muris. [Bad management, poor strategy and disregard for norms have foiled her plan to refashion antitrust law..] 5-7-24