Posts Tagged ‘ competition ’

Car Crash

Mar 10th, 2009 | By Dawn R. Rivers | Category: Policy Matters

The people on Capitol Hill, who would be inclined to celebrate all this market action, and many of the people who visit to give lawmakers what they believe to be good reasons to celebrate it, know nothing about the market competition they all channel so lovingly. That is why the rest of us will soon be left without an American auto industry to replace the one currently dying in Detroit.

You have to wonder how long it will take for lawmakers to figure out that they’re throwing good money after bad.

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Elephants and Spiders

Jul 28th, 2008 | By Dawn R. Rivers | Category: Policy Matters

Again and again, lawmakers and federal agencies have chosen to protect competition between large firms, often at the expense of competition from small ones.

I wonder if you find that as peculiar as I do?

Isn’t it odd that giant Verizon is happier about competing for high speed Internet access customers against giant Time Warner Cable than it is about competing with little XO Communications?

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Anti-Trust Action Doesn’t Help Small Biz

Jul 21st, 2008 | By Dawn R. Rivers | Category: Research

If you were under the mistaken impression that federal antitrust activity helped to safeguard the interests of small businesses against predatory larger competitors, a recently released study puts a tentative kibosh to that idea. The researchers examined several cases in the retail groceries industry and one case in the timber industry, and found that FTC [...]

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