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John Newman

Antitrust law professor (Herbert Herff Chair of Excellence, University of Memphis School of Law) and former Deputy Director of the FTC Bureau of Competition.

Oct 7, 2026

11:28
The guy who I think, I think I heard a rumor that when you were working at the FTC, you commuted on a skateboard.
11:34
[laughs] I cannot confirm or deny that, that happened.
11:39
Uh, but it wouldn't be surprising to some of my students.
11:42
Um, so that, but that, that was kind of the fir- I d- I think the first time somebody actually labeled this as a movement, it was in a kind of derogatory, "Look at these funny kids, they think they've discovered something new," but it's really just the equivalent of, you know, bringing back vinyl records.
11:58
Um, it started around, I think, 2016, uh, 2017 maybe.
12:05
There was a new Generation, I think, of thinkers, uh, that I think had been through the great financial crisis.
12:14
They just didn't have the bedrock faith in unfettered markets to always do the right thing that kind of characterized the 1990s and 2000s era, I think.

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