March 16, 2018
As she nears the end of nearly four years as a member of the Federal Trade Commission, Terrell McSweeny laughs about having “really been part of four different commissions — one with five members, one with four, one with three and now one with two.”
March 16, 2018
The day after the Federal Trade Commission challenged J.M. Smucker’s $285 million deal to acquire Conagra Brands’ Wesson cooking oil brand, the companies pulled the plug on the transaction.
March 16, 2018
A confirmation hearing last month for the Federal Trade Commission’s soon-to-be Republican chairman went as expected last month except for one eye-opener: Joseph Simons told a Senate panel that he...
March 16, 2018
Two decades after the US passed its first online privacy law for children, a coalition of privacy advocates are starting to discuss how to strengthen the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act.
March 16, 2018
Carl Shapiro has spent the past three decades making a name for himself as one of the top economists in the antitrust world to hire as an expert witness in merger challenges.
March 16, 2018
This month Tronox stood down from its unusual lawsuit to force into federal court the Federal Trade Commission’s challenge of its acquisition of Cristal’s titanium dioxide business.
March 16, 2018
Right about now, the proponents of a hands-off, business libertarian approach to antitrust enforcement must be wondering whether their recent victories on doctrine and vocabulary have come at too...
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