Publications

To avoid a potentially exorbitant Digital Markets Act fine, Google is changing its spam policy in a way that may degrade Search, providing yet another example of the European Commission compelling American firms to weaken their services.

The United States will not realize the full benefits of AI if policymakers treat it primarily as a technology that needs to be constrained.

Eliminating harmful NEPA review is a necessary reform that will help America continue to lead in space innovation. However, the NPRM's uniform waiver across environmental laws and launch and reentry sites forgoes the risk-based, evidentiary approach that justifies deregulatory action.

Thailand’s digital markets exhibit no general market failure that could justify either new ex ante digital antitrust regulation like the PEA or the sort of heavy-handed sector-specific changes to its ex post enforcement framework contemplated by the Proposed Guidelines.

Heavy dependence on Chinese APIs creates risks to the drug supply and national security. To reduce dependence, U.S. policy should support domestic and allied production through the advanced manufacturing innovation, tax incentives, import limits, regulatory reforms, improved analysis, and targeted procurement, including strategic stockpiling.

The JFTC has an excellent opportunity to set the global gold standard for competition policy in merger enforcement by issuing guidelines that best foster innovation by fully encouraging the dynamic efficiency benefits that business combinations can bring.

The number of venture capital deals involving unicorns—firms valued at $1 billion or more—is growing, with $245.6 billion invested over 225 transactions in Q1 alone. 78 percent of this value was raised by just 5 firms.

AI companies’ destructive book scanning neither forecloses competition nor threatens humanity’s cultural inheritance. The FTC should not waste resources investigating it.

Fixed compute thresholds for “frontier” AI models are quickly becoming outdated, and policymakers should adopt a dynamic, capability-based definition that keeps regulation focused on models posing truly exceptional risks.

The Democratic Party increasingly assumes the economy runs on autopilot, weakening its ability to articulate a serious vision for American economic strength.