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 House Judiciary Committee approved the Standard Merger and Acquisition Reviews Through Equal Rules Act (SMARTER Act), legislation that would revise merger review policies at the Federal Trade...
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Federal Trade Commission officials are joining with their Utah counterparts for a summit on combating consumer scams—a problem that has been proliferating in that state.
The recent Supreme Court ruling that the Harvard Law Record has called antitrust’s Brown v. Board of Education is causing consternation all over the country, and states and professional boards are...
During the Justice Department’s recent review of Expedia’s proposed acquisition of Orbitz, one consumer group, along with some senior lawmakers, urged the watchdog to block what they saw as a deal...
The Federal Trade Commission is preparing to clamp down on the advertising claims made by manufacturers of homeopathic drugs, an action that could cause a major shakeup in a multibillion-dollar industry.