"It is remarkable that [this CJEU] opinion, demonstrating European hostility to innovation and backwards attitude towards the global, digital economy, would come out only one day after that report was released." - Int'l Ctr Law & Econ's Gus Hurwitz thedrum.com/news/2024/09/1…

ICLE President Geoffrey Manne was a guest on the Tech Policy Podcast to discuss the flaws in the FTC’s antitrust lawsuit against Meta. podcast.techfreedom.org/episodes/384-t…

Apropos of nothing ... in Portland, a gallon of milk ($3.99) now costs more than a gallon of gas ($3.95).

Lawyer: We need to redact this figure b/c it contains sensitive non-public information. Intern: Should redact the source, too? Lawyer: Naw ... keep that in.

“It’s hard to make predictions about these things, but after today’s argument I would say the smart money is on a unanimous and very unambiguous loss for TikTok” - Int'l Ctr Law & Econ's Gus Hurwitz nypost.com/2024/09/16/bus…

Does he get to take the tiger paintings?

New Int'l Ctr Law & Econ working paper with Alba Ribera Martinez on “The Secret (#Metrics) of DMA’s Success.” While much has been written about the #DMA, one key question remains underexplored: How do we determine its #success? 1/2 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Eric Fruits, Ph.D. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Meanwhile ... a political action committee set up by supporters of mayoral candidate Carmen Rubio recently reported $70,000 in traffic tickets.

"While serial acquisitions may constitute an important domain of merger scrutiny, neither enforcement experience nor the economic literature support any fundamental changes in procedural or substantive antitrust law or regulation" - Int'l Ctr Law & Econ laweconcenter.org/resources/icle…

Check out the latest cool tool Mark Friesen built, and read all the survey responses from Portland political hopefuls compiled by Oregonian Politics and OPB. oregonlive.com/politics/2024/…

Let me guess ... it's because campaign contribution limits have shrunk campaign budgets to the point that candidates can't afford to "engage" with voters.

"A new paper by Roger Bate, a nonresident scholar at the Int'l Ctr Law & Econ, has raised the alarm over the safety and quality of unapproved tobacco harm reduction (THR) products in the US market." businesspostbd.com/economy/indust…

“They argue if you allow the merger through, because we have these competitors, we’re not going to be able to raise prices. In fact, we need this merger in order to compete with Walmart and Costco” - Int'l Ctr Law & Econ's Brian Albrecht on Marketplace marketplace.org/2024/09/19/wha…

"Reported views vary across both respondents and cases but, on average, our respondents do not think that the government has brought very strong cases." - Int'l Ctr Law & Econ's Daniel J Gilman & Brian Albrecht in Yale Journal on Regulation yalejreg.com/nc/ranking-the…

"R.J. Lehmann explained that rates were going up around 7% per year until the pandemic, when the volume of vehicles on the road dropped significantly and insurers weren’t increasing rates at all." insurancejournal.com/news/national/…

"She’s heard three weeks’ of testimony, very data-intensive testimony with a lot of statistical analysis. So all those factors kind of point to her probably taking several weeks to come up with a decision,” Eric Fruits, Ph.D. said. supermarketnews.com/mergers-acquis…