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Barack Obama Is the Clear Choice for Antitrust Enforcement
Tweet Share on Facebook November 2, 2012 CommentDavid Balto is an antitrust attorney in Washington, D.C. Mr. Balto has over 20 years of experience as an antitrust attorney in the private sector, the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice, and the Federal Trade Commission, where he was the policy director of the Bureau of Competition and attorney adviser to Chairman Robert Pitofsky.
When it comes to antitrust enforcement, even though the typical dogma is that it is a bipartisan sport, elections matter.
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The Economic Impact of Hurricane Sandy
Tweet Share on Facebook November 2, 2012 CommentChad Stone is chief economist at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
Hurricane Sandy's devastating effects on people and property will likely be large—though, at the moment, they seem unlikely to approach those from Hurricane Katrina. Economic forecasters expect a dip in economic activity followed by a recovery that's fueled by repair and reconstruction efforts that, in some cases, could replace old buildings, machines, and infrastructure with newer, better ones. But no one should think that natural disasters are good for the economy.
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Why Your Company Needs a Second CEO
Tweet Share on Facebook November 2, 2012 CommentThomas C. Lawton is a Visiting Professor of Business Administration at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
In the mid-1990s, Thomas Kropp managed Lufthansa's government and regulatory affairs office in Brussels, with a total team of nine people. The airline's "corporate embassy" to the European Union was one of the first of its kind among European airlines and the most substantial in terms of resource commitment. Its mandate was to monitor and interface with the EU policy-making process as it affected air transport and specifically, Lufthansa Group.
