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Depression, his cousin franklin roosevelt saw a wave of corporate mergers that wiped out scores of small business crushing the innovation and competition, and he ramped up the antitrust enforcement, and set the course for sustained economic growth after world war ii, and he called for the economic bill of rights with quote, the right of every businessman large and small to trade from fear of competition and domination of monopolies, and between them, they established an anti-trust tradition. it is how we ensure that our economy is not about people working for capitalism, but it is about capita...

Thank you. >> you bet. >> will: also here tonight, democratic congressman, ro khanna whose congressional district is there in the heart of silicon valley. thanks for being with me, this seems to be scrambling party lines. i don't know. some suggest that the party lines are being divided is establishment versus anti-establishment. where are you on these bills? establishment or anti-establishment? >> i don't think that's the division. the division is rationale policy versus policy that doesn't make sense. i'm for stronger antitrust enforcement and there are as one bill, joe's bill, that does the...

In the Biden era, the Reaganite consensus is finally breaking down. Illustration by Tim Lahan In a 1981 speech to the boards of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, President Ronald Reagan expressed one of the central ideas of the coming era. “The societies which have achieved the most spectacular, broad-based economic progress … believe in the magic of the marketplace.” I have long thought that this and many other Reagan speeches were extraordinary examples of what Michael Sandel has called public philosophy—an attempt “to bring moral and political philosophy to bear on ...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Following weeks of speculation about a potential role for Columbia Law Professor Tim Wu in the Biden Administration, the White House announced on March 5 that Wu has been named Special Assistant to the President for Technology and Competition Policy. As an official housed in the National Economic Council (“NEC”), Wu will not directly command staff within federal agencies or set the agencies’ enforcement or regulatory agendas. Instead, Wu will most likely focus on coordinating federal agencies’ efforts to identify and add...

GAFA – Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple – and the inability of ex post enforcement of competition law to prevent potential anticompetitive conduct by these firms. [2] Several European jurisdictions are currently considering an overhaul of their competition policy approach towards dominant companies in the digital economy. A common theme is that competition authorities or newly created digital markets agencies could be given the power to regulate dominant companies with a gatekeeper status. As an important first step in this new regulatory approach, policymakers in various jurisdicti...