National security considerations in competition enforcement

 OECD (!), here. 

Emerging Antitrust Implications for "Fact Checking” Content

 PerkinsCoie, here.

Trump Goes to Bat for Big Tech in Global Trade Talks

 

WSJ, here. 

[South Korea - local DMA dropped already? Cautious to say the least.  Brazil - everything you want to know about their draft DMA and "electronic payment practices" aka Fab Pix here].

[I wonder how Brazilians would react if Trump successfully undermined their highly efficient sovereign digital infrastructure for electronic payments].  

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  

Prime time in the Trump Antitrust playbook!

WSJ, here. "Trump hasn’t yet decided whether the administration will settle with the company over accusations that it bought Instagram and WhatsApp to quash its competition, according to a person with direct knowledge of his thinking." 

What can you expect from someone who even tried to tax pinguins 😊?

Wholesale assault on the First Amendment by the Trump administration

 M.A.Franks, here. 

Corruption, plain and simple.

 Organized money, podcast here.

The Making of the Fox News White House

The New Yorker, here. 

The White House is considering an antitrust investigation into 'online platform bias' at Google and Facebook — read the leaked document here

Business Insider, here. See also here.

Without DOJ Backing, States Pursue AmEx Antitrust Appeal

Bol.bna, here.

Whither Antitrust Enforcement in the Trump Administration?

S. Salop, C. Shapiro, here. 

Populism: The Phenomenon

Bridgewater, here.

"I am concerned that there will be..political antitrust"

ProMarket, here. 

Antitrust Policy for a New Administration

M. Ohlhausen, here.