The link between market competition and democracy is creating an intellectual tug-of-war between progressives and their conservative counterparts.
The antitrust profession thinks of labor cases as a recent policy innovation. But on the important topic of wage collusion, they date back several decades, at least to the Federal Trade Commission’s memorable case against the great fashion-model conspiracy of 1993.
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The Federal Trade Commission’s protracted challenge to Phoebe Putney Health System’s acquisition of archrival Palmyra Park Hospital in Albany, Georgia, has ended in a whimper.
April 1 — FTC Commissioner Julie Brill will give the keynote speech at Columbia University’s 2015 Biannual Symposium for the Data Science Institute. For more information, go to:...
New inspector general, Roslyn Mazer, named at FTC
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has finalized a policy that will give it a controversial new tool to deal with consumer abuses: Public shaming.