October 14, 2016
In a presidential campaign full of name-calling, acrimony, and turmoil, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton prompted some head-scratching when, in a major speech just five weeks before Election Day, she talked about antitrust, of all things.
October 14, 2016
Terrell McSweeny isn’t on any ballots next month, but her campaign to persuade Hillary Clinton to name her chairwoman of the Federal Trade Commission has begun. It started with last week’s speech...
October 14, 2016
The debate over the effectiveness of merger remedies recently got hotter when Federal Trade Commission Chairwoman Edith Ramirez stoutly defended the government’s record in securing good results and...
October 14, 2016
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler’s recently revised proposal to give consumers more say-so over how their information is used by Internet service providers may have helped...
October 14, 2016
Congress may be gridlocked on broad data breach-privacy legislation, but there is a possibility that lawmakers could tackle the narrower topic of going further to protect children’s privacy.
October 14, 2016
Alan Greenspan’s libertarian views on competition policy — including his advocacy of the repeal of most antitrust laws — never gained much traction. But they did help him woo his future wife.
October 14, 2016
The torch of exclusive dealing enforcement has passed from the Department of Justice’s antitrust division to the Federal Trade Commission, and the question now is what the FTC intends to do with...
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