By: Miles G. Michaud Traditionally, large commercial apartment buildings have set their rental prices using notions of supply and demand. Or,perhaps the building’s management would conduct market research of comparable properties in the surrounding area to determine the price of its vacant studio units. However, todays large commercial landlords set their prices rather differently. Many… Read More Is AI Setting My Rent?
By: Elliot Hangos If you are reading this right now, I would like to try an experiment. Go onto Google and search for any NFL or MLB team as if you were looking to buy a jersey. Notice the amount of scrolling you have to do before you find any link that does not direct… Read More Licensing Deals, Online Retail Markets, and Antitrust Litigation: How the MLB, NFL and Fanatics Alleged Monopolization Could be Affecting Consumers
This blog discusses the recent rise in profits by big-tech firms such as Google, and the Justice Department’s recent suit against them for violating antitrust precedent. Has free-market thought, established in the 1960s, hallowed out antitrust law so much as to give the Justice Department no recourse through current antitrust law? Current antitrust precedent does not muster the strength it once did upon the birth of the Sherman Act in 1890, so in order to address current big-tech monopolies, there must be an antitrust reform. … Read More The Tech Giants Takeover: The Unsavory Success of Google Amidst the Pandemic and Whether Antitrust Musters the Strength to Combat Tech Giants
By William Raven “Google was the original gateway to the web. I’m here today to speak about how Google betrayed the web” stated Yelp policy head Luther Lowe at a Senate hearing on digital platforms focusing on anticompetitive practices. “Google physically demoted non-Google results even if they contained information with higher quality scores” further claimed… Read More Monetary Fines and Monopolization: The Case for More Aggressive Anti-Trust Measures in the World of Tech
This blog will discuss Apple’s appeal of a class-action lawsuit claiming violation of federal anti-trust law.… Read More Apple’s Appeal of Class Action Lawsuit Alleging the Company of Inflating Prices of App Store Applications