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April 24, 2025
The EU’s Half-a-Trillion Dollar Apple Fine Harms American Competitiveness and Will Ultimately Expose the Privacy of European Consumers
The EU is making two demands that would wreck Apple’s successful business model. It demands that Apple open its app store to competitors. And it wants Apple to share the guts of its operations with competitors.
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April 18, 2025
New Justice Antitrust Boss Same as the Old Boss? Too Soon to Tell
In recent weeks, Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson has shown his true colors as a Khanservative dedicated to continuing many of the antitrust actions, investigations and philosophies he inherited from former Chair Lina Khan. Now we’ve received our first indication that Gail Slater, the new Justice Department Antitrust Chief, may somewhat continue in the mold of her predecessor, Jonathan Kanter.

OP-ED
April 17, 2025
Why Attorney General Bondi Should Spike the RealPage Lawsuit
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes recently told the media that she is so concerned that the Justice Department might drop its antitrust case against RealPage – an online aggregator of market data for landlords – that she is “actually considering sending a letter to (U.S. Attorney General) Pam Bondi.” On March 11th, she did just that.
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April 14, 2025
Why Is the U.S. Going So Hard on Meta and So Soft on TikTok? Have We Become Our Own Europeans?
The off-again, on-again Federal Trade Commission antitrust lawsuit against Meta was on again today before the judicial branch’s version of Zelig, Judge James Boasberg. FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson told the media that his lawyers were “raring to go” to break up Meta. But why?

OP-ED
April 2, 2025
Will Trump Intervene As the EU Takes a Bite Out of Apple and Google?
The sharp teeth of the European Union’s new competition rules under the Digital Markets Act and Digital Services Act are drawing blood from two of America’s greatest innovators. Such mandates undermine U.S. tech leaders’ basic business models and threaten to turn them into public utilities. They also trash privacy by handing consumer data and American trade secrets to China, while putting in jeopardy the very innovation and user experiences that consumers value.