Big mergers are back in fashion. So are “national champions,” industrial-policy wish lists, and solemn warnings that antitrust enforcement may leave the West defenseless against foreign rivals. In Washington, Brussels, …
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A subsidy program can survive many things. Paying benefits to the dead should not be one of them. That is the problem now facing the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Lifeline …
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Spirit Airlines was supposed to be the “maverick” antitrust saved from JetBlue. Instead, the deal died, Spirit followed it into bankruptcy, and the maverick exited the market altogether. That is …
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The trick in AI policy is not deciding whether artificial intelligence is risky. Of course it is. So are electricity, aviation, pharmaceuticals, and teenagers with driver’s licenses. The harder question …
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The canonical story of the modern tech firm still starts in a metaphorical garage. William Hewlett and David Packard with the audio oscillator. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak with the …
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In standard-essential patent (SEP) licensing, every procedural tweak is also a skirmish over bargaining power. That is what makes licensing negotiation groups (LNGs) more than an obscure acronym in the …
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The European Commission published its draft “guidelines on the assessment of mergers under Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 on the control of concentrations between undertakings” yesterday. The title does what …
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Brazil’s digital markets do not need a regulatory savior so much as a careful doctor. Bill 4,675/2025 arrives with the bedside manner of a reform, but the instruments of major …
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A familiar pattern has taken hold in platform regulation—and in the academic and policy commentary that surrounds it. Critics spot a real phenomenon, recast it as market failure, and then …
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The European Commission’s first review of the Digital Markets Act (DMA) lands at an awkward moment. Just as Brussels begins to test whether its flagship digital regulation works, AI threatens …