If Republican nominees Melissa Holyoak of Utah and Andrew Ferguson of Virginia are confirmed, as expected, to join the Federal Trade Commission this month, they could change the dynamics of an agency that’s been under single-party control for half...
Hard cases are notorious for making bad law. But sometimes the easy and obvious cases can make bad law, too. Something like this seems to be going on with insulin pricing.
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US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is promising to get tough on corporate consolidation, and she has been crediting President Barack Obama with getting the ball rolling with his...
Ever since President Barack Obama issued an executive order in April directing agencies to identify ways to boost competition, skeptical antitrust experts have wondered what might come of it.
In recent days, legal scholars, privacy lawyers and consumer activists have lined up with the Federal Trade Commission to urge the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to rehear en banc a...
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau got its wings clipped by an appeals court panel, but that doesn’t mean the Federal Trade Commission is going to get some of its lost powers back.
As the Federal Trade Commission oversees a regulatory landscape that has grown increasingly dynamic, complex and opaque due to digital technology, it will need fresh economic research on Big Data,...
Regulatory reviews of mergers and acquisitions are taking more time, costing more money and leading to a growing sense of frustration by companies and federal enforcement agencies alike, and that’s...