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Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and retired US Army Gen. Wesley Clark teamed up in an Open Markets Institute forum to argue in support of current efforts in Congress to rewrite the meaning of antitrust in the US. These efforts include Klobuchar’s American Innovation and Choice Online Act (AICOA), the Competition and Antitrust Law Enforcement Reform [...]
Meta has come under investigation by the Federal Trade Commission for supposedly anticompetitive conduct concerning the Oculus headset and App Store, despite the fact that virtual reality is still very new to the market and needs time to adapt to consumer demands. This can only mean trouble for the future of the metaverse. Watch Dr. [...]
A brief explanation of the metaverse by Dr. Mark Jamison. Watch Dr. Jamison's explanation below or on the AEI website.
On February 22, AEI’s Mark Jamison hosted an event on how the American Innovation and Choice Online Act (AICOA) would affect consumers, the US economy, and the future of antitrust enforcement if it became law. Watch the recorded livestream of this event below or at AEI.
Metaverse real estate sales surpassed $500 million last year, and nearly half of this amount came after Mark Zuckerberg’s October 2021 rebranding of Facebook to “Meta.” (One piece of metaverse “land” went for $4.3 million alone.) This year, the metaverse real estate market has continued to boom, with sales reaching $85 million in the first [...]