An ex-head of the FTC and his co-author lament the politicisation of antitrust enforcement
Undermining regulatory independence in America and Britain will deter investment, write William Kovacic and John Vickers
FOR DECADES America and Britain have told the world that for a competition-law regime to be effective and legitimate, it must be insulated from political interference, not least when it comes to how agencies use their powers. Recent events in both countries have undermined this fundamental precept.
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Even Americans don’t want Trump’s barmy tariffs, writes Douglas Irwin
The trade historian predicts that the damage will be geopolitical as well as economic
The Le Pen ruling is good for liberal democracy, writes Tarik Abou-Chadi
The Oxford professor says it shouldn’t matter whether the verdict emboldens the hard right or not
The boss of Siemens on how to re-energise the German economy
More must be done to nurture innovators while driving the completion of the European project, writes Roland Busch
Dan Hendrycks warns America against launching a Manhattan Project for AI
The conditions in which the atomic bomb was produced can’t be replicated in the race for superintelligence, writes the AI-safety expert
Ekrem Imamoglu’s wife on how his arrest has turned a mayor into a movement
Recep Tayyip Erdogan can’t defeat democracy, says Dilek Imamoglu
The global trading system needs new rules, not tariffs, say Wally Adeyemo and Joshua Zoffer
A former deputy treasury secretary and a presidential economic adviser on the need to draw a sharper line between open economies and the rest