AGs join push for changes to telemarketing rule
December 16, 2014
Partisanship may be the norm in Washington but on a key consumer protection issue, there is bipartisan consensus among state attorneys general.
December 16, 2014
Mega-deals roared back in 2014, and the trend is likely to continue into next year, according to a recent report by economic consulting firm Ernst & Young. That’s good news for the people who make deals and the people who watch them, but it is going to be a source of increasing strain on the government agencies that oversee corporate mergers.
December 16, 2014
The sudden emergence, this month, of a broad coalition of public interest groups, industry associations and companies to oppose the Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger, almost 10 months after the...
December 16, 2014
Partisanship may be the norm in Washington but on a key consumer protection issue, there is bipartisan consensus among state attorneys general.
December 16, 2014
Even as Senator John McCain is in the middle of intense national security debates and prepares to assume the chairmanship of the powerful Armed Services Committee, he recently took time out to...
December 16, 2014
Leaders in the House and Senate are indicating their willingness to tackle the issue of problematic patent-assertion entities next year, though the Obama administration’s likely point person on the...
December 16, 2014
This column continues our occasional series on the leisure and weekend activities of members of the antitrust community. Our subjects this time are Diana Moss, the incoming president of the...
December 16, 2014
Editor’s Note: The Federal Trade Commission is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year; the first official meeting of the commission was held in March 1915. In this series of articles, we are...
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