Federal Trade Commission member Noah Phillips spoke with FTCWatch reporters June 7 on a balcony outside his office overlooking 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW. Inside his office, a picture hangs on the wall of conservatives’ bête noire, Louis...
The antitrust agencies are busy considering possible revisions to the horizontal merger guidelines. Recent speeches and writings by some key players give us hints of what the final product might look like.
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Democrats have made stronger antitrust enforcement a key component of their campaign platform to try to win back control of the House in the mid-term elections. If they succeed, Representative...
The House panel that oversees antitrust policy will have a new leader next year regardless of which party controls the chamber.
The appointment of Richard Powers as the Justice Department antitrust division's acting deputy for criminal enforcement has provoked some head scratching.
When Dr. Scott Gottlieb, commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, publicly listed pharmaceutical companies that have “potentially blocked access” to samples of their branded products to...
Over the past six months, Alastair Mactaggart has plowed $3.3 million of his own money into a California ballot initiative to pass the most extensive privacy and data security law in the United...
It all depends on what the meaning of balanced is.