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  1. Protectionism in Regulatory Clothing: How Governments Keep Markets Closed Without Tariffs
  2. Antitrust’s State of Prey: The Hawks Go Local
  3. No Signal in My Backyard: How Radiation Fears Block Wireless Networks
  4. ‘Production, Information Costs, and Economic Organization,’ by Armen Alchian & Harold Demsetz
  5. Deregulation by the Ton: The FRA’s Heavy Paperwork and Lightweight Relief
  6. Altman’s Memory Problem: The Importance of Being Idle
  7. AI Is Picking the Locks on Europe’s Gatekeeper Rules
  8. The Price of Playing Fair: How Charging Everyone the Same Can Leave Consumers Worse Off
  9. The New (Mexico) Math: Multiply the Violations and Never Mind the Harm
  10. The View from Southeast Asia: A TOTM Q&A with Hee Eun Kim
  11. The EU’s Fair-Weather Cloud Partnership
  12. Why Corner Post’s Merchant Victory May Not Ring Up Savings
  13. The Halloween Effect and the Premature Burial of Efficient Markets
  14. ‘Contemporary Law and Economics,’ by Adam Chilton, Joshua C. Macey & Mila Versteeg
  15. Old Insurance Wisdom for New AI Risks
  16. The FCC’s Public Interest in Your Personnel Files
  17. How to Profit From a Cartel Without Joining One
  18. Fin-Syn Is a Rerun Washington Should Skip
  19. Every Click You Make: Article 6(5)’s Search for a Limiting Principle
  20. Brussels Rules Without the Brussels Perks
  21. ‘The Value of the Ability to Deal with Disequilibria,’ by Theodore Schultz
  22. We Measured Europe’s Browser Revolution. Bring a Magnifying Glass.
  23. Doom, Meet Duty: AI’s Warnings Come With Legal Baggage
  24. A Nobel Prize for Thinking Ahead: Hall and Woodford’s Great Expectations
  25. The World Wants Cures. America Gets the Check.
  26. Antitrust at the Agencies: Pour One Out for Southern Glazer’s
  27. AI Insurance and the Backstop Reflex: A Policy for Every Risk, a Taxpayer for Every Loss
  28. Beyond Tariffs: Free Trade and the Friends-and-Family Plan
  29. Two Years, 57 Pages, No Merger: Amazon, Anthropic, and Brazil’s Filing Problem
  30. Licensed to Wait: The High Cost of Spectrum Delay
  31. Proof of Age, Leap of Faith: The EU KIDS Act’s Security Gamble
  32. Fraud, Platforms, and the Art of Getting Ahead of Yourself
  33. The Garden State’s War on the Good Deal
  34. California’s COMPETE Act: May the Best Firm Lose
  35. No Country for Young Posters: Social Media Bans Outrun the Evidence
  36. Pump and Circumstance: The Politics of Italy’s Fuel-Price Caps
  37. BEAD’s Second Act: The Future Is Pending Approval
  38. The Case of the Missing Sale: The FTC’s Personalized-Pricing Blind Spot
  39. The Rivals Antitrust Can’t See
  40. ‘The Economics of the Marriage Contract: Theories and Evidence,’ by Niko Matouschek and Imran Rasul
  41. The EPA Takes Its Thumb Off the Power Switch
  42. Tap Your Own Brakes: AI Safety and Antitrust
  43. Brussels Writes the Answer Key
  44. The DMA’s Magic Words and Missing Off Switch
  45. The Right-Answer Machine: Who Decides What Chatbots Should Say?
  46. Move Slow and Collude: The Antitrust Problem With Pacing AI
  47. Checkout Error: A Bad Grocery Plan Meets a Weak Antitrust Case
  48. Prime Targets: Amazon, No-Poach Rules, and the Limits of Antitrust
  49. All-Inclusive Antitrust: Europe’s New Route to Merger Prohibition
  50. Rate Expectations: Apple and the New Price Regulators
  51. One AI, Two Rulebooks: Brussels’ ChatGPT Conundrum
  52. ‘Incomplete Contracts and the Theory of Contract Design,’ by Robert Scott and George Triantis
  53. Who, Exactly, Does New York City’s Delivery Protection Act Protect?
  54. No Free Ride: Uber’s African Retreat
  55. Reserve Judgment: The FTC Takes on Amazon’s Ad Auctions
  56. Certified Uncertain: Why AI Safety Needs Assurance Tests, Not Permission Slips
  57. Competing Too Well: Europe’s New Guide to Dominance
  58. Nothing Runs Like a Deere You Can Repair
  59. Location, Location, Litigation: The Antitrust Fight Over Private Listings
  60. Your Price May Vary: The FTC’s Personalized-Pricing Puzzle
  61. ‘The Use of Knowledge in Society,’ by Friedrich A. Hayek
  62. Fine Print for Every Price: The FTC’s One-Size-Fits-All Guidance
  63. A Fee Too Far: Merchants, Surcharges, and the War on Plastic