David B. McGarry
Lessons from Google Search Ruling: Markets Evolve, Bureaucrats Don’t
In its remedies decision, the court curbed the DOJ’s sweeping demands and largely upheld Google’s position.
DC’s $4.4B RFK Stadium Boondoggle: A Gift to Interest Groups, a Burden on Taxpayers
Washington, DC’s subsidization of the renovation of RFK Stadium — the once and future home of the Washington Commanders — “is a BFD,” Mayor Muriel Bowser said, verging on an…
DC’s $4.4B RFK Stadium Boondoggle: A Gift to Interest Groups, a Burden on Taxpayers
The RFK stadium deal won't generate a fraction of promised growth.
Republican Antitrust Officials Shouldn’t Behave Like Progressives
Trump's DOJ and FTC are borrowing talking points from their progressive predecessors… are there any defenders of markets left?
Industrial Policy Indignities
"Some low-value-added manufacturing, once economically sensible to do stateside, should now take place elsewhere. The alternative is tying up American workers in less-than-productive jobs." ~David B. McGarry
Not Only to No Single Person, But to No Council or Senate Whatever
"Some Republicans’ apparent assumption that the American economy would benefit if American companies operated fully within the US badly misperceives the basic realities of globalized trade." ~David B. McGarry
The FTC’s Case Against Amazon is a Case Against American Consumers
"Even in an era of inflation, digital markets have had profoundly deflationary effects. Disassembling Amazon’s business model would almost surely dampen this trend." ~David McGarry
Adam Smith Provided a Moral Foundation for Workers’ Freedoms
"The moral proposition is that it is good for individuals to be free to work and contract as they choose. The economic proposition is that such freedom generates spectacular wealth."…
How Trump and Biden Are Blowing Up the Free-Trade System America Worked So Hard to Build
"Globalization has helped generate previously unknown wealth – and health – in rich and poor nations alike. As evidenced by Trump and Biden, a President may use his unilateral tariff…
