There are several initiatives that will affect every industry. The first is that the FTC is going to update the guidelines regarding mergers in all industries. Given that the new FTC chair is Lina Khan, one of the intellectual spearheads behind this new antitrust movement, we can expect more thorough frisking of M&A activity than we have seen in the past. Deals like Amazon-MGM (AMZN) and Nvidia-ARM (NVDA) just got less likely to consummate.
There is special attention paid to the banking here, and this will affect the large banks, JPMorgan (JPM), Bank of America (Revenue:),花旗银行(C)和富国银行(WFC)。摩根大通尤其最近一直在进行收购。
The courts and Congress are mostly concerning themselves with the five megacaps - Apple (苹果), Microsoft (微软), Google (GOOGL), Amazon and Facebook. But the executive order has the potential to cut deeper. We already discussed non-compete clauses. These were already waning in tech, as they have been banned in California, where many tech companies are headquartered.
As I mentioned, Wu first gained fame as the author of a 2003 paper, “Network Neutrality, Broadband Discrimination” [PDF]. We are still arguing about that one. The article has over 1,400 citations onGoogle Scholar, and 32,000 downloadsover at SSRN. But it is his 2018 book,Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age对我们的讨论最相关的是