Commentary: Commissioner Wright’s Section 5 policy leaves much to be desired

(July 2, 2013) -- Nature abhors a vacuum. The Federal Trade Commission has for years refused to define or provide a structure for the antitrust side of Section 5 of the FTC Act of 1914, which broadly prohibits “unfair methods of competition.” Now an effort to fill that intellectual vacuum is being made, not by a friend or enforcer of Section 5, but rather by a profound skeptic....

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