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Glad this paper is finally out in American Political Science Review, five years after we began the project. Hope it proves useful to researchers. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

📍 Bucharest, Romania 🇷🇴

In a new piece co-authored with Econ One’s Gavin Sicard, we explore whether DOJ’s inquiry into the egg industry, as reported by The Capitol Forum on March 6, may have caused egg prices to plummet. If so, the implications would be big. Highlights coming. thesling.org/did-dojs-inves…

I am excited to announce the formation of Simonsen Sussman LLP. We are an antitrust firm seeking to fill significant gaps in enforcement-helping entrepreneurs, entrants, workers, small businesses, workers and governments. More information on our website: simonsensussman.com

BREAKING: MIT just completed the first brain scan study of ChatGPT users & the results are terrifying. Turns out, AI isn't making us more productive. It's making us cognitively bankrupt. Here's what 4 months of data revealed: (hint: we've been measuring productivity all wrong)

POV: 2024 election if Lina Khan was on every TV show and podcast to talk about antitrust, ending noncompetes, fixing McDonalds ice cream machines (and sports)

Congratulations to Zohran Kwame Mamdani on an incredible win and a courageous, principled campaign. People are hungry for a government that is relentlessly focused on improving their lives, even when it means standing up to corporate power and moneyed interests.

Democrats are terrified that the party's gonna get dragged down because a Democrat is running on the same program that the most popular Democrat ever to live ran on during the high water mark of Democratic political dominance.

NEW: Through FY24, the NCAA has reported spending over a half of billion dollars on legal fees since Ed O'Bannon filed his antitrust suit in July 2009. More on NCAA's latest tax return– including Charlie Baker's 2023 comp–for Sportico 👇 sportico.com/leagues/colleg…

AI is cited as a basis for job cuts and productivity gains. The business press is quick to point out massive paydays for “superstar coders.” But what’s less clear is whether those productivity gains are being shared with all workers in the form of higher wages. So we dug in. 🧵

While investigating Adobe for deceptive subscription practices, we discovered an executive admitting that hidden early termination fees are “a bit like heroin” for the company. Subscription tricks and traps have surged as more firms become dependent on subscription-based

I was just at my storage unit for work. I was loading a box into my car and a man who was also on the loading dock offered to help. He was loading his vehicle as well. He had bags and bags of shoes and clothing in his car. I assumed a move of some sort. Boy was I wrong. He is a

Prescient, from Shel Silverstein in 1981

This is how websites die. Data from Pew Research Center shows that Google users are more likely to end their browsing session entirely after being presented with an AI Overview compared to result pages without one. 🔗 pewresearch.org/short-reads/20…

World historical crimes

Yesterday, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed into law the bill that bars the NCAA and CSC from punishing schools or athletes if a third party, including a “related entity," breaks their #NIL rules. nj.gov/governor/news/…

I cannot imagine this AI pricing model is a positive for American Express Delta card holders.

In a healthy labor market, the switchers take risks and typically secure higher outside offers, which redounds to the benefit of the stayers from the mere prospect of their switching (mobility versus actual movement). Alas, this does not appear to be a healthy labor market.

Absolutely incredible sporting achievement

Netanyahu is a disgusting liar.  Children are starving to death.  The United States cannot continue to supply his racist government with hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid that is used to kill innocent people.