Pepsi Clash

 Lina Khan, here.

M. Meador, here.

2nd Annual Antitrust Conference - FTC Commissioner Mark Meador Gives Keynote Address - GWU CIL

Video here. 

2022 Keynote mentioned during the discussion here. 

Republicans Aim To Enshrine Rental Price-Fixing

 The Lever, here. 

Good luck explaining this to Europeans.

A conservative vision for antitrust

 Podcast here.

[Skip the first part about conservative v. khanservative, waste of time]

Me bubbling along on Bluesky while listening to it.

Unpacking “America First Antitrust” for Europeans

 C. Caffarra, here.

[My take would be a bit different, of course]

The Future of Antitrust Populism

 H. Hovenkamp, here.

Farewell to the US Open Banking that never was?

 Bloomberg, here.

They have set on a name: America First Antitrust

 

Can you be from Africa, Asia, or Europe, and be in favour of "America First Antitrust" - like there have always been those adhering to the Chicago, Post-Chicago School? Even Ordoliberalists, Neo-Schumpeterians, New Brandeisians could be from almost everywhere on the planet. This choice of conceptual isolationalism by the US antitrust enforcers is, well, unprecedented.

When on stage herself at the ICN, Gail Slater managed to make America First Antitrust more palatable to an international audience, also with some help from SC (first principles! Draghi Report! 2 of the 4Ps! You can apply it also to the ICN!). 

Naming the current US Antitrust Moment/Movement? New Jerichans? 😉

At the start of what is now known as the Biden antitrust era, its leading voices called themselves New Brandeisians. I analysed their manifesto, enforcement practice followed. Their legacy is now beginning to be assessed.

Today, under Trump II, a different approach is taking shape. It is certainly conservative, but not libertarian. Methodologically cautious, rhetorically nationalist and populist, ambitious—but we don’t yet know how much it'll be transactional (aka KMA antitrust). 

Is it time to give it a name? The Ultimate/True/Neo/Etc. Conservatives?

Update: Perhaps we need a more religious name. As ""Peter Thiel is now running Bible study groups in Silicon Valley. He said in a few interviews recently that he believes that the Antichrist is Greta Thunberg," it's perhaps significant that the FTC Chair recently argued out of the blue that "The FTC should not take orders from Greta Thunberg."

 

UPDATE They have set on a name: America First Antitrust