June 30, 2017
It took about five months for the Federal Trade Commission under acting Chairman Maureen Ohlhausen to bring its first merger challenge — a lawsuit to block the tie-up of DraftKings and FanDuel, two daily fantasy sports firms — and the litigation quickly prompted second-guessing.
June 30, 2017
Though it’s been four years since Thomas Pahl worked at the Federal Trade Commission, he told FTC:WATCH that the thing that surprised him the most since returning as acting director of the Bureau...
June 30, 2017
What a difference a year makes.
June 30, 2017
Alarm bells sounded almost from the moment Amazon announced its $13.7 billion deal to acquire Whole Foods, the natural foods supermarket chain, as an array of consumer activists and liberal...
June 30, 2017
Verizon says it offers the “fastest most reliable Internet available.” Rival Internet provider Comcast Communications doesn’t agree. Now the Federal Trade Commission and the Federal Communications...
June 30, 2017
Starting in 1951, the Federal Trade Commission spent four years holding hearings on how advertisers should describe television screen-size, culminating in a 1966 rule requiring that TVs be...
June 30, 2017
The people who run the antitrust agencies are first-rate in assessing cost curves and entry barriers. That’s how they got their jobs. But they are also human beings — which means that other,...
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