May 2, 2013
Beer drinkers, as they quaff their favorite brew, can thank the Justice Department for helping them avoid getting stuck with a higher bill. At least that is the consensus of folks who praise antitrust division chief Bill Baer for engineering a demanding settlement of the government’s lawsuit that had challenged the proposed acquisition of Grupo Modelo, the third largest brewer in the U.S., by a company called ABInBev, which is the world’s – and the United States’ – largest beer maker.
May 2, 2013
Ah spring, when a man’s thoughts naturally turn to baseball, romance and antitrust policy.
May 2, 2013
Commissioner Joshua Wright is apparently settling into his new job so quickly that he is starting to look for bits of turf that might be wrestled away from other agencies.
May 2, 2013
The reaction was swift—and mixed—to President Obama’s nomination of Howard Shelanski, currently the director of the FTC’s Bureau of Economics, to be the administrator of the Office of Information...
May 2, 2013
The American Civil Liberties Union recently filed a complaint with the FTC charging that the nation’s major wireless carriers have engaged in unfair and deceptive business practices by not warning...
May 2, 2013
The increased connectivity of cars, appliances and medical devices – the internet of things – will be the subject of a November 21 workshop hosted by the Federal Trade Commission.
May 2, 2013
The Justice Department’s civil antitrust division has a new international traffic cop.
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