Author Archives: Paul Steidler
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Lina Khan’s Obsessive, Out-the-Door Tech Bashing Op-Ed
February 5, 2025- Paul Steidler By Paul Steidler: Yesterday, the New York Times published an illogical Op-Ed from former Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Lina Khan, blaming U.S. technology leaders for creating the conditions that led a Chinese start-up to invent the DeepSeek app. In [Read More...] -
China’s DeepSeek AI Coup: Three Takeaways for U.S. Policymakers
January 31, 2025- Paul Steidler By Paul Steidler: On Monday, January 27, as the Nasdaq Composite was getting routed on news that a small Chinese startup had launched a similar app to ChatGPT at a fraction of the cost, President Trump added a dose of [Read More...] -
Artificial Intelligence: A Powerful Tool Against Cyberattacks
January 24, 2025- Paul Steidler The full text is below and can be viewed as a PDF here. Artificial Intelligence: A Powerful Tool Against Cyberattacks The growth of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has led some to worry that it will lead to human extinction or [Read More...] -
FTC Investigates AI Collusion – and Finds Nothing
January 21, 2025- Paul Steidler By Paul Steidler: On Lina Khan’s last full day as Chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the FTC issued a long-anticipated report on one of her top priorities for the past year – investigating how Big Tech might be [Read More...] -
Trump’s Trade Battle Looms, EU Holds US Companies Hostage (From Newsmax)
January 20, 2025- Paul Steidler President Donald J. Trump is quite unhappy with the European Union and its trade practices. “They don’t take our cars, they don’t take our farm products, they don’t take anything. And so, we’re not going to have it with them [Read More...] -
Returning The FTC’s Focus To Consumer Protection (Public Meeting Comments)
January 14, 2025- Paul Steidler At today’s open meeting of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), whose attendees included Chair Lina Khan, Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, and Commissioner Alvaro Bedoya, Lexington Institute’s Paul Steidler called on the FTC to focus “on its core mission of protecting [Read More...] -
The Return Of A Sober, Positive View Of Artificial Intelligence (From RealClearMarkets)
January 14, 2025- Paul Steidler Optimism is alive and well as we start 2025. Exhibit A is the sober and positive assessment, rooted in facts, that leaders are taking towards AI, Artificial Intelligence. President-elect Donald Trump has shared his vision of an economic “golden age” [Read More...] -
U.S. Treasury Targeted: Cybercriminals Compromise Critical Data
January 8, 2025- Paul Steidler By Paul Steidler: In a bold cyberattack, hackers breached the U.S. Treasury Department on December 8, infiltrating its Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the agency responsible for administering economic sanctions. The major data breach, first reported during the week [Read More...] -
U.S. Postal Service Is A DOGE Delight (From FEDweek)
December 31, 2024- Paul Steidler With the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) careening to financial insolvency, mail delivery taking far longer than it did in the 1970s, and postal rate increases for the past four years outpacing the worst inflation in four decades, it is time [Read More...] -
Antitrust Issues And President-elect Trump: A Discussion With Ashley Baker
December 30, 2024- Paul Steidler The video can be viewed here. The full text is below and be viewed in the PDF here. Antitrust Issues and President-elect Trump: A Discussion with Ashley Baker Paul Steidler: Hello, I’m Paul Steidler with the Lexington Institute, [Read More...]