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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For about an hour in his office, a relaxed Noah Phillips amiably fielded a slew of questions covering countless issues that have come before him as a member of the Federal Trade Commission.
During a recent lunch attended by a large gathering of seasoned antitrust practitioners, Barry Nigro, a top official at the Justice Department, was asked a blunt question that it’s safe to say was...
Congress could be on track to pass legislation protecting privacy before the end of next year, but the prospect for a measure to substantially change the antitrust laws is less clear.
One of the first rules of testifying at a congressional hearing is to do no harm. But that maxim proved to be a high hurdle for Federal Trade Commission Chairman Joe Simons, who was a witness at a...
The leader of a trade group representing American manufacturers and the top marketing executive at an American jewelry company butted heads at a Sept. 26 workshop about “Made in USA” products.
For decades, Dr. Diane Levin has been helping parents and teachers understand how various media, from televisions to video games, affect childhood development.