Showing posts with label Trump antitrust. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Trump antitrust. Show all posts

Monday, May 05, 2025

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  



Thursday, April 03, 2025

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 😊?