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Antitrust at the Agencies Roundup: Rounding up the Roundups

It’s Not All About Price, Except When We Say So I don’t know if this is the end of an era, the end of an error, a bit of both, or something far more complicated than that, but let’s start with Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Commissioner Melissa Holyoak’s dissent in In the Matter of Southern Antitrust at the Agencies Roundup: Rounding up the Roundups

Policy Without Policymaking: Australia’s New Digital Competition Regime Is Primarily Designed to Get Through Parliament

The Australian government’s announcement earlier this month of a proposed new competition regime for digital marketplaces has a long history. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has been investigating digital-market competition for nearly a decade. The latest iteration of the ACCC’s digital platforms inquiry has published nine interim reports, with a tenth report to Policy Without Policymaking: Australia’s New Digital Competition Regime Is Primarily Designed to Get Through Parliament

The Hidden Wealth of Payment Cards: How Innovations in Payments Transform Society

It’s a dreary December morning and, on your way to work, you stop at a coffee shop. There are only three people in line, so you assume you’ll be served quickly. But after a few minutes, you notice the customer at the front of the queue fumbling as they laboriously count out the exact change. The Hidden Wealth of Payment Cards: How Innovations in Payments Transform Society

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