Author Archives: Paul Steidler
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Fired FTC Commissioners and the Need for Judicial Temperament
March 19, 2025- Paul Steidler By Paul Steidler: The judicial and public prestige of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) took another hit yesterday and it is not because President Trump fired the two Democrat commissioners. The firings are the culmination of a meltdown that has [Read More...] -
Comments on AI Action Plan to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
March 17, 2025- Paul Steidler The Lexington Institute has offered the following comments and recommendations on federal Artificial Intelligence (AI) Policy. This public filing follows a January 23 request in President Donald J. Trump’s an executive order requesting input from interested parties to help define [Read More...] -
The Budget Deficit, AI, and Measuring Progress
March 11, 2025- Paul Steidler By Paul Steidler: This week Congress again wrestles with avoiding a government shutdown as the Congressional Budget Office projects the Fiscal Year 2025 federal deficit will hit $1.9 trillion. There has been much discussion about how Artificial Intelligence (AI) can [Read More...] -
U.S. Hits Back Against Foreign Lawfare (From InsideSources DC Journal)
March 10, 2025- Paul Steidler Foreign governments have unleashed lawfare against American companies, and they are about to pay the price for it. While this onerous practice is on the verge of spreading from Europe to China, South Korea, Brazil and elsewhere, President Trump’s February [Read More...] -
EU Comes to DC, Meets with Trump Tech Officials and Trashes Them
March 5, 2025- Paul Steidler By Paul Steidler: Last week, a delegation of seven European Parliament members met with numerous officials of the Trump Administration – and wasted no time publicly trashing them. The delegation was led by Anna Cavazzini, chair of the European Parliament’s [Read More...] -
Stop FERCing With AI – And Power America’s Golden Age (From American Greatness)
March 4, 2025- Paul Steidler Electricity prices are skyrocketing, jumping 33 percent from five years ago, significantly more than overall inflation. With Artificial Intelligence (AI) research and development expected to require vast amounts of electricity in the coming years, America has reached a critical crossroads [Read More...] -
U.S. Ups the Ante Over EU Attacks on American Tech Businesses
February 25, 2025- Paul Steidler By Paul Steidler: Talk about some hard-edge follow-through. On Friday, February 21, President Trump signed an Executive Order directing the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) to investigate countries that use digital service taxes (DSTs) to discriminate against U.S. companies. The executive [Read More...] -
The Reverberations of J.D. Vance’s Landmark AI Speech
February 18, 2025- Paul Steidler By Paul Steidler: On February 10, Vice President J.D. Vance gave a major speech on AI to world leaders and tech luminaires that is likely to go down in importance with President Kennedy’s 1962 speech at Rice University calling on [Read More...] -
DOGE 101: The One Agency Act
February 11, 2025- Paul Steidler By Paul Steidler: With the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) getting a bevy of provocative, dramatic headlines, it is easy to forget that there are plenty of important ways the government can operate more efficiently and save money that frankly [Read More...] -
U.S. Is The Global AI Leader: J.D. Vance Must Tell EU To Not Mess With Us (From RealClearMarkets)
February 10, 2025- Paul Steidler On Tuesday, February 11, a young American born into poverty who transcended his circumstances through grit and, in part, the opportunities in America’s tech sector will speak to world leaders about AI at a major event in Paris. JD Vance [Read More...]