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Time for Congress to Cancel the FTC’s Section 5 Antitrust Blank Check

December 20, 2012

A debate is brewing in Congress over whether to allow the Federal Trade Commission to sidestep decades of antitrust case law and economic theory to...


Section 5 of the FTC Act and Monopolization Cases: A Brief Primer

November 26, 2012

In the past two weeks, Members of Congress from  both   parties  have penned scathing letters to the FTC warning of the consequences (both to...


Congress Delays Requiring Cost-Benefit Analysis of Internet Regulation

November 16, 2012

You’d think it would be harder for government to justify regulating the Internet than the offline world, right? Wrong—sadly. And Congress just missed a chance...


Real Lawyers Read the Footnotes, but Cite Them only when Relevant: A Response to Harold Feld on the FCC SpectrumCo Order

September 14, 2012

“Real lawyers read the footnotes!”—thus did Harold Feld chastise Geoff and Berin in a recent blog post about our CNET piece on the Verizon/SpectrumCo transaction....


Let’s Not Exaggerate Privacy Risks: Re-Identification Isn’t So Easy After All, says New Barth-Jones Paper

September 6, 2012

The privacy debate has been increasingly shaped by an apparent consensus that de-identifying sets of personally identifying information doesn’t work.  In particular, this has led...


The Ugly Truth Behind the FCC’s Verizon Spectrum Approval

August 24, 2012

TechFreedom’s Berin Szoka and the International Center for Law & Economics ’ Geoffrey Manne recently penned an op-ed for CNET detailing some of the problems...