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A Possible Federal Role in Reducing State Red Tape

The incoming Trump administration’s commitment to reduce extremely costly regulatory burdens will feature the new Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) evaluation of federal overregulation. But economic research indicates that harmful regulatory bloat exists at the state level, as well. The new administration may wish to propose solutions to state regulatory overreach that harms many Americans. Generic Overregulation at the State A Possible Federal Role in Reducing State Red Tape

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

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