14 Quotes by Robert Litan

I don't know whether they can get the momentum back. At this point, they're in damage control mode.

He will be one influential judge--no question about it. I think the justices will look to him for guidance because he had that job.

is a move in the right direction but doesn't go far enough.

On the surface, the only apparent antitrust problem appears to be the fact that AOL and Time Warner's Roadrunner might be seen as being competing Internet services. But Roadrunner is a pipsqueak of a player compared to AOL's service. It's conceivable they could force the divestiture of Roadrunner. But that's not a big deal.

Microsoft did a whole bunch more things wrong after the consent decree. A breakup is not as preposterous today as it was back then.

Even if they slap Jackson down on the tying issue, there still will be the rest of the verdict.

Perhaps the EC is going to investigate it. Maybe they fear that a combination of content companies with distribution companies is a problem, but I am wrestling with seeing what the antitrust problem is in the U.S.

Oftentimes, Congress wants to get involved because of the theater of it all,

A disproportionate number of innovations are developed by entrepreneurs, as opposed to big firms.