June 30, 2020
The Federal Trade Commission more than most federal agencies is known for continuity and bipartisanship regardless of which party controls the White House. Yet in the past two years, since five commissioners took their seats at roughly the same time, there have been some bitter battles in high-profile cases.
June 30, 2020
Makan Delrahim has made lots of waves since being confirmed as assistant attorney general of the Justice Department’s antitrust division in September 2017.
June 30, 2020
The Federal Trade Commission presented a mostly unified front in asking Congress for more money and authority to beef up its privacy enforcement, but the commissioners still couldn’t restrain...
June 30, 2020
A global pandemic is a good excuse to lounge around and play video games, which is what many have been doing in recent months, leading to renewed concerns about in-game purchases with gambling-like...
June 30, 2020
Some funeral homes voluntarily list their prices online. Should others follow suit?
June 30, 2020
Fraudsters are demanding Bitcoin from computer users by pretending they will expose embarrassing personal details about their lives, the Federal Trade Commission said. But the bluffs are sometimes...
June 30, 2020
With an election and a new presidential term coming closer, the people who hope to see themselves staffing the antitrust agencies are jockeying for position, writing policy papers and making...
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