Skip to content
ITIF Logo
ITIF Search

Publications

January 20, 2026|Testimonies & Filings

Comments to the FCC Regarding Space Modernization for the 21st Century

This rulemaking will benefit the space industry by updating and improving regulations to keep pace with commercial technological progress. Simpler, flexible, and more straightforward licensing will encourage the most innovative companies to seek a U.S. license, consequently helping maintain U.S. leadership in the global space economy.

January 20, 2026|Blogs

Fact of the Week: Private-target M&As Have Heightened Expected Innovation Outcomes Versus Public Targets

A recent paper finds that mergers and acquisitions (M&As) in which a public company acquires a private company have more positive innovation outcomes than do public-public acquisitions.

January 20, 2026|Podcasts

Podcast: Creative Discussion, Episode One, With Herb Hovenkamp

Join Joseph Coniglio, director of ITIF’s Schumpeter Project on Competition Policy, as he inaugurates Creative Discussion: An Antitrust Podcast by engaging in an in-depth discussion with Herb Hovenkamp, James G. Dinan Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Dubbed the “Dean of Antitrust” by The New York Times, Hovenkamp shares his career journey, insights on his influential Areeda-Hovenkamp Treatise, and perspectives on significant antitrust issues such as the consumer welfare standard and current antitrust litigation targeting Big Tech.

January 20, 2026|Testimonies & Filings

Comments to FCC Regarding Facilitating More Intensive Use of Upper Microwave Spectrum

The FCC is right to seek regulatory changes that would facilitate greater flexibility and thus more intensive use of upper microwave spectrum. The NPRM’s proposals should be tailored to maximize parties’ flexibility without pulling the rug out from under parties that have paid for protection from harmful interference.

January 17, 2026|Blogs

Cars, Canola, and the Country Canada Chooses to Be

Treating cars like canola is not strategy. Using industrial platforms as bargaining chips for commodity access risks locking Canada into a permanently resource-heavy economic structure, one in which manufacturing capacity cannot be easily rebuilt and its absence reshapes the economy for decades.

January 16, 2026|Blogs

Big Tech Is Not the “Main Enemy”: Techno-Nationalist Opposition to America Is Nothing New

In every wave of U.S. industrial leadership, other nations have attacked American multinationals, especially tech firms, for blatantly protectionist reasons.

January 16, 2026|Testimonies & Filings

Comments to the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission Regarding Google and Epic Games

The ACCC should accept Epic and Google’s application to settle their longstanding antitrust litigation, and Australia need not be concerned that the flawed catalog-sharing remedy in the United States is not a part of it.

January 13, 2026|Testimonies & Filings

Comments to the California Law Revision Commission Regarding the Tentative Recommendation Antitrust Law: Single Firm Conduct

While it is true that state antitrust regimes may go beyond the scope of federal antitrust law, that does not justify the radical departure from the Sherman Act contemplated by the Recommendation in terms of the principles, standards, and rules that should define sound antitrust enforcement at all levels of government.

January 12, 2026|Blogs

Fact of the Week: Construction Industry Facing a 439,000-Worker Shortage Driven by the Growth of Data Centers

As of November 2025, with over 400 data centers currently under development, the construction industry is facing a shortage of roughly 439,000 workers.

January 9, 2026|Blogs

The Era of Global Free Trade Is Over: Time for the Era of Strategic Partnerships

Trade is not an end in itself; it is a tool the U.S. should use to build allied power and constrain the CCP. We must move beyond trade agreements toward comprehensive strategic partnerships.

Back to Top