Author Archives: Paul Steidler
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GOP Senate Dysfunction Aids Progressives Controlling The Federal Trade Commission (From The Hill)
January 13, 2024- Paul Steidler Republican Senators gave Senator Elizabeth Warren and progressive ideologues running the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) an early Christmas present by failing to confirm three well-qualified nominees to be commissioners. This unforced error shows that Republicans can be as dysfunctional in [Read More...] -
House Democrats Happily Stand Up To EU Business Bullies (From RealClearMarkets)
January 5, 2024- Paul Steidler Common sense and advocacy for free markets and innovation are alive and well in some quarters of the Democratic party. Largely overlooked during the rush of the Christmas season, 22 members of the U.S. House of Representatives, including 12 Democrats, [Read More...] -
FTC Chair Lina Khan Must Either Pivot, Or Face Irrelevance (From RealClearMarkets)
December 21, 2023- Paul Steidler 2023 will go down as one of the worst years in the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC’s) 109-year history. This is due to its activist, controversial Chair, Lina Khan, a close advocate of Senator Elizabeth Warren’s visceral, anti-business, anti-free market policies. [Read More...] -
Postal Service Needs To Correct Its Financial Projections (From FEDweek)
December 13, 2023- Paul Steidler The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) needs to scrap its financial projections in the 10-year Delivering for America (DFA) strategic plan and take a hard, comprehensive look at how it does financial forecasting. Its recent projections have been way off. New [Read More...] -
The Urgency Of Strengthening America’s Electric Grid Cybersecurity (From RealClearEnergy)
November 28, 2023- Paul Steidler The U.S. electric grid continues to face a bevy of foreign and domestic cyberattack threats. Therefore, it makes more sense than ever before for utilities and transmission operators to aggressively fortify their cyber defenses. In fact, failure to do so [Read More...] -
Five Fatal Flaws In Lina Khan’s Assessment Of Amazon (From RealClearMarkets)
November 22, 2023- Paul Steidler Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Lina Khan shot to notoriety with a 2017 article in The Yale Law Journal, “Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox,” where she charged that vigorous antitrust action should be taken against the company. She asserted this while acknowledging [Read More...] -
How the Postal Service’s Finances So Quickly Returned To The Crisis Stage (From FEDweek)
November 13, 2023- Paul Steidler On April 6, 2022 as President Biden signed the Postal Service Reform Act (PRSA), there was abounding yet misplaced optimism that the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) had turned the corner financially and would have a bright future. Congress provided USPS [Read More...] -
Fix America’s Dangerous International Mail System (From The National Interest)
November 11, 2023- Paul Steidler While Congress overwhelmingly enacted legislation in 2018 to curtail opioids, fentanyl, and other illegal contraband from entering the United States via the international postal system, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has dropped the ball on enforcement. This has public [Read More...] -
Comments To Federal Trade Commission Supporting U.S. Chamber Of Commerce Petition For Rulemaking
October 26, 2023- Paul Steidler The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has petitioned the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to revise the rules and process by which a Commissioner will be disqualified from an adjudication or rule-making procedure if the Commissioner does not agree to a voluntary [Read More...] -
The Postal Service’s Inspector General Needs A Big Funding Boost (From FEDweek)
October 24, 2023- Paul Steidler With the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) going through a period of unprecedented, historic operational change while also facing skyrocketing crimes from outsiders and bad apples within its ranks, it is imperative to strengthen USPS’s Office of Inspector General (OIG USPS). [Read More...]