Category: Director’s Take
On September 27, AEI hosted an event on federal broadband policies, featuring a conversation between AEI’s Mark Jamison and the Federal Communications Commission’s Brendan Carr and a panel featuring INCOMPAS’s Angie Kronenberg, AEI’s Daniel Lyons, Bonfire Infrastructure Group’s Jade Piros de Carvalho, and Technology Policy Institute’s Scott J. Wallsten. The group set out to discuss [...]
As President Trump takes office for the second time, a pressing question will be how to handle the Biden administration’s legacy of targeting large businesses. In 2021, President Biden issued an executive order on competition, launching an all-of-government effort to reverse, or at least stay, a century-long trend: the rising share of national output produced [...]
Much digital ink has been spilled over The Washington Post’s decision to forgo endorsing a presidential candidate this year. The Post frames this as a return to its roots, with owner Jeff Bezos reportedly viewing it as a move to bolster public trust in journalism. However, reactions have been fierce. Some see this as a [...]
As the Kamala Harris-Tim Walz and Donald Trump-JD Vance campaigns pour resources into Maine to compete for electoral votes, both the Vice President and former President Trump could benefit from something more than campaign dollars: a lesson from Maine on how to fix the stalled Biden-Harris broadband rollout. The $42.5 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and [...]
One of the enduring ironies of antitrust law is that governments often step in to solve perceived problems that market forces are already addressing. A prime example: Standard Oil. Its grip on the oil market a century ago weakened not because of the 1911 antitrust breakup but due to newly discovered oil fields in the [...]