Congressional backers of giving the Federal Trade Commission more powers to recover ill-gotten gains will need a host of skills. But the most important one may be ensuring they can count to 60.
The Federal Trade Commission has long protected individual consumers from scams, but now it’s devoting more attention to scams that target businesses. This reflects a fundamental broadening of the agency’s sense of its mission.
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Whether buoyed by the notion that a Trump antitrust regime would take a hands-off approach, new telecom rules encouraging consolidation or huge payouts available to CEOs, 2017 became the year of...
Consumer advocates are scrambling to deal with the fallout from what they anticipate will be moves by the Trump administration to eviscerate the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. But they...
Connected toys may seem like the perfect gift for kids this holiday season, and there's no question they’re popular.
When Donald Kempf made the pitch that the Justice Department is determined to reverse the trend in which merger reviews take longer and longer, his comments were met with skepticism.
As the year wraps up, FTC:WATCH counts 13 pending big deals that have garnered second requests for more information — eight from the Federal Trade Commission and five from the Department of...
Although the Federal Trade Commission’s top officials have acting in their titles, they aren’t letting that stand in the way of formulating an array of plans for next year.