Technological breakthroughs can disrupt markets, spur economic growth, and change the nature of war and geopolitics. — Lina Khan Breakthroughs Copy Share Image
What we hear day-in, day-out is that people too often feel like they're not getting a fair shake in the market. — Lina Khan Fair Copy Share Image
Antitrust is really about making sure that companies are succeeding by competing on the merits. — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
Our obligation is to preserve competition and make sure that mergers are not unlawfully lessening competition. — Lina Khan Competition 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 Burden Copy Share Image
There's a growing recognition that the way our economy has been structured has not always been to serve people. — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
What became clear is there had been a systemic trend across the U.S… markets had come to be controlled by a very… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
Our investigation uncovered that Amazon's illegal practices were actually raising prices for consumers because it had illegally muscled out rivals, locked them… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
Some of the most significant breakthrough innovations have historically come from the startups and the entrepreneurs and the small guys who are… — Lina Khan Breakthrough Copy Share Image
When you have companies that are not disciplined by competition, oftentimes they can get away with abusing their customers; firms can become… — 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,… — Lina Khan Acquisitions 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 Antitrust Copy Share Image
The FTC was actually created more than a century ago, in the era of the robber barons and the industrial trust and… — Lina Khan Business Copy Share Image
I think we've seen time and time again that when you have a company that has captured control over a key artery… — Lina Khan Business 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 Behavior Copy Share Image
I think a system where you're putting the burden on, under-resourced civil society groups, under-resourced academics, under-resourced public servants, is just going… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
When companies are actively directing their products or services at children or if those services are being used by children and they… — Lina Khan Children 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… — Lina Khan Business Copy Share Image
I think whenever you see potential moments of transition, that's when enforcers need to be especially vigilant because that's when incumbents often… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
Amazon has massively - and I'm trying not to use this particular word, but I can't not use it here - disrupted… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
The expanding adoption of A.I. risks further locking in the market dominance of large incumbent technology firms. A handful of powerful businesses… — Lina Khan Business Copy Share Image
I think we've seen all sorts of instances in which monopolies, once they become incumbents, are not incentivized to innovate in the… — Lina Khan Antitrust Copy Share Image
Start-ups are historically a key driver of job creation and innovation, but several studies have found that noncompetes reduce entrepreneurship and start-up… — Lina Khan Business Copy Share Image
One reason why enforcers may not have scrutinised the impact of roll-ups previously is the relatively small size of each acquisition. Antitrust… — Lina Khan Antitrust Copy Share Image
Too often fewer and fewer companies are controlling more and more of the market. And what that means is companies can start… — Lina Khan Business Copy Share Image
Economic liberty, not just political liberty, is at the heart of the American experiment. You're not really free if you don't have… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
We've identified not just one merger, but a whole string of mergers that some of these large companies made that we believe… — 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 Business Copy Share Image
I think one challenge that agencies can face is when they shrink their own powers and authorities by not actually using the… — Lina Khan Congress Copy Share Image
Ruing the disappearance of a diverse candy market isn't just nostalgia. Fewer people concocting means dominant players have fewer reasons to innovate. — Lina Khan Candy 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 Business Copy Share Image
Even when services are good for consumers, they can hurt a whole set of other interests - be it workers, be it… — Lina Khan Business 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… — Lina Khan Fair Copy Share Image
There's no doubt that the latitude one has as a scholar, critiquing certain approaches, is very different from being in the position… — Lina Khan Being 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 Antitrust Copy Share Image
Where we once had a lot of independent businesses, a lot of local businesses, a lot of variety, we now actually just… — Lina Khan Business Copy Share Image
Serial acquisition strategies are not just limited to private equity firms. They have also been used by large technology companies and others… — Lina Khan Acquisition Copy Share Image
There are a whole bunch of ways in antitrust analysis that you can assess if a company is a monopoly. You look… — Lina Khan Antitrust 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… — Lina Khan Around the world Copy Share Image
There's a whole line of critique about Amazon that's culture-based, about how they're wrecking the experience of bookstores. I personally am less… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
