Creating chaos is his brand

It’s too bad there’s not a small tax on emails to reduce the profitability of this type of scamming spam

I think that greater emphasis on refusing to justify anti-competitive effects on workers with benefits to downstream consumers is new. Regardless of whether it ever existed in the past.

Or given your field, if Boeing were to be acquired by Lockheed Martin

Yes. Or if Boeing wanted to acquire a jet engine producer or helicopter producer, or vice versa

For What Its Worth — it is forcing them to sell it, not shut it down. And whileI don’t really know anything about it, isn’t it possible that they are collecting sensitive data for the Chinese government? If people don’t trust musk , why trust them?

Yes. Duopoly. But where is the antitrust issue? Incompetence by itself does not violate the FTC Act.

You are really smart. Also pretty. And clever

Also — Of course, it can be confusing for unilateral effects or coordination that will deter price decreases (ie Cellophane fallacy)

You really can just treat competition from non-merging firms as possible constraints. See the way Posner wrote HCA. But I agree that the hypo monopoly test is useful where the allegation is that the merger would lead to coordinated effects.