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The Cables That Bind
A day later and much has already been said about the Comcast/Time Warner Cable merger. Bloomberg’s Matt Klein thinks it will be a good thing. Matt Ylgesias is skeptical (and I’m jealous he beat me to...
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Widgets All The Way Down
Let’s use the Comcast/Time Warner Cable deal as the jumping off point for a new merger analysis fundamentals post. On Friday, I said I don’t really know enough about the markets for the sale and...
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Antitrust Links of the Week
The FTC’s Deborah Feinstein comments on Jostens and American Achievement Corporation abandoning their class ring deal. The FTC agrees to re-open and modify its 1998 order in the Toys “R” Us case. The...
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He Ain’t Heavy
The regulations under the FTC Act are complicated. Even people who work with them regularly sometimes make mistakes. I planned to write about two examples of confusion I’ve personally encountered, but...
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Like A Rolling Onion?
So, about that other confused scenario I mentioned. This one doesn’t come up as often, but when it does, it seems to be somewhat frequently missed. This time, we’re talking about the exemption codified...
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Threshold State of Mind
I’d been meaning to get back into the swing of blogging, so why not use the occasion of the announcement of the new HSR thresholds to get back to the very, very basics? Okay, so if you’re reading this,...
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On Lockdown
Last week I said the changes to the thresholds under Section 8 of the Clayton Act were a topic for another day. Guess what? It’s another day. But before we talk about the thresholds themselves (which...
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Oops, They Did It Again
By now you’ve probably heard that Staples and Office Depot are going to try to get the band back together. Or trying again to put together the band that the FTC wouldn’t let them form back in 1997. Or...
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The Hygienist Hypothesis?
More fun with the state action immunity doctrine! The Supreme Court has handed down its ruling in North Carolina Board of Dental Examiners vs. the FTC, finding that state action immunity did not...
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So You’re Meeting With Your Competitors
Every once in awhile, someone asks, “hey, there’s a trade association meeting coming up, is there any antitrust stuff we need to think about?” “Yes, there is,” I say. Sometimes the day-to-day questions...
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Netflix and File?
So, you may have noticed that it’s been rather awhile, but I’m going to try to get back into the swing of the whole blogging thing again, so let’s look around and see what’s new. Oh, there’s something....
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Antitrust Isn’t Going to Fix It
Some windmills for your tilting needs Tyler Cowen has a new Bloomberg View column on a topic I’ve been thinking about lately. I’ll get into where I differ with Cowen in a minute, but I mostly agree...
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