One of the effects of antitrust becoming a more technocratic enterprise and arcane over the last few decades has been that in… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
To go all the way back, lawmakers passed the antitrust laws because they wanted to favor competition over consolidation, the basic idea… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
I actually simultaneously applied to law school and a job at the Wall Street Journal. — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
As a law enforcer, one of the things that I think most about is deterrence. You really want to ensure that firms… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
Laws reflect values. Antitrust laws used to reflect one set of values, and then there was a change in values that led… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
I worry that there has been a perception in the market that businesses can sometimes get a free pass if they're too… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
I think we've seen all too often instances in which companies play fast and loose with the rules, especially right at the… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
When Congress passed U.S. antitrust laws, lawmakers made them flexible precisely because they knew that they could not predict the constantly new… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
Noncompetes are the type of restriction that Section 5 of the F.T.C. Act, a federal law passed by Congress more than a… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
Our focus is on making sure that we are enforcing the rule of law. And I see an enormous amount at risk… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
So, my job is to enforce the laws that Congress has written. And I'm very sympathetic to the idea that, you know,… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
As antitrust enforcers, we must update our application of the law to new realities. — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
Antitrust is really about making sure that companies are succeeding by competing on the merits. — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
I think we need to be very wary of systems where it's the public that is carrying the burden of doing cleanup. — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
If you look at the antitrust lawsuit against IBM, the antitrust lawsuit against AT&T, the antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft, each of those ended up… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
A market in which the only ideas that are ever brought to market are the ideas that you think will be appealing to the… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
I'm grateful that the FTC is viewed as a leader internationally and all credit goes to our terrific staff at the office of international… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
The FTC is entirely pro-innovation, and a lot of our work is about ensuring that companies are able to compete in a fair way… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
If we want a healthier, more diverse market - and more variety in our Halloween buckets - we could start by reviving some of… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
Our obligation is to preserve competition and make sure that mergers are not unlawfully lessening competition. — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
In the technology markets, we went through a couple of decades where we saw over 800 acquisitions by the five big players, not a… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
It's no surprise to me personally that monopolists, and executives associated with monopolies, would prefer that the anti-monopoly cops just go away. But that's… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
I'll say, as a general matter, we follow the facts where they take us. And there are certainly matters, when they first hit my… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
At a basic level, I'm interested in imbalances in market power and how they manifest. That's something you can see not just in tech… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
