ANALYSIS: Trump Means Uncertainty, But Some Antitrust Ideas Hold

The shift from Biden to Trump in antitrust enforcement doesn’t look to be a sea change. But given the vast uncertainty involved in a Trump administration, it’s particularly difficult to forecast where US antitrust enforcement could wind up in the coming years.

A few things look fairly stable, however. And they are emblematic of a shift that happened in antitrust thinking during the past few years that appears to be bipartisan. Antitrust enforcers seem more agreed than they have been in a decade on some issues in antitrust. That means some changes from the Biden administration are going to hang ...