The US Chamber of Commerce and some of its Republican congressional allies are urging the Federal Trade Commission to revamp rules to clarify when members must recuse themselves.
The sudden emergence of miraculously effective weight-loss drugs is good news for 100 million American dieters. It’s also a unique opportunity for the Federal Trade Commission. If the agency can help make these drugs more widely available, it can provide a visible quantum-leap benefit for...
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Joshua Wright, a frequent dissenter while serving as a member of the Federal Trade Commission, wrote in a recent tweetstorm that he “never once dissented in ongoing litigation.”
On antitrust issues, Congress often has a four-letter word solution to the problem: talk. Democrats, and some Republicans, are trying to change that old refrain.
Critics who blasted the Justice Department’s approval last year of the CVS Health-Aetna merger as harmful to consumers couldn’t have foreseen getting a chance to air their grievances in testimony...
When one of Congress’ leading antitrust experts called for consolidating antitrust enforcement, he was reviving a decades-long debate among practitioners.
The Freedom of Information Act was created to hold officials accountable by allowing journalists access to government documents.
When Christine Wilson started as an associate in 1995, the field of antitrust lawyers looked quite different. The Federal Trade Commission member felt like an “invader” because there were few women...