Federal Trade Commission member Noah Phillips spoke with FTCWatch reporters June 7 on a balcony outside his office overlooking 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW. Inside his office, a picture hangs on the wall of conservatives’ bête noire, Louis...
The antitrust agencies are busy considering possible revisions to the horizontal merger guidelines. Recent speeches and writings by some key players give us hints of what the final product might look like.
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Congressional Democrats are speeding up their efforts to ensure the Federal Trade Commission is given statutory power to recover ill-gotten gains, but business groups and their GOP allies are...
Broadband privacy policies will face increasing scrutiny from the Federal Trade Commission this year, while most Internet service providers make no promises about refraining from selling or...
Thomas Leary, a former member of the Federal Trade Commission who took a pragmatic yet conservative approach to enforcement matters, died on May 21. He was 89.
The Federal Trade Commission will be required to step up its enforcement of scams against Native Americans if the Senate passes House-approved legislation that has bipartisan support.
As Congress addresses merger enforcement in digital markets, one option is regulating broadband infrastructure as a public utility, a congressional report said.
Anyone who works with federal policy issues should drive cross-country from time to time, just to keep in touch with the situation on the ground. My wife and I have just finished a three-week road...