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March 31, 2026
Apple’s rise as a corporate behemoth has often resembled a roller coaster ride.
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March 10, 2026
A dozen US senators have backed a bill to fundamentally reshape the American meatpacking industry, which they say has been raising costs for consumers while lowering returns for cattle ranchers and farmers.
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March 10, 2026
It’s become increasingly difficult to divorce politics from technology issues, as worries about surveillance and crackdowns on speech persist for Shae Gardner, LGBT Tech’s director of policy and research.
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March 10, 2026
Live Nation and the Department of Justice cut a mid-trial deal Monday resolving the agency’s claims of monopolization and anticompetitive conduct across the live entertainment and ticketing industries.
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March 10, 2026
John Ehrett has left the Federal Trade Commission, where he served as Mark Meador’s chief of staff, to join Lex Politica, a boutique conservative law firm.
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March 10, 2026
March 30-31 — The International Association of Privacy Professionals is holding its Global Summit 2026 at the Marriott Marquis in Washington, DC. For more details, go to: https://iapp.org/.
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March 10, 2026
Federal Trade Commission officials spent National Consumer Protection Week providing tips to curb fraud while agency data shows consumer losses in 2025 weren’t slowing down.
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March 10, 2026
For the business libertarians at the Cato Institute, their fondest wish is no doubt that a pied piper will show up, gather the top managers of the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division, and lead them all into the sea. Strangely enough, this has actually happened.
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March 10, 2026
Microsoft’s seminal antitrust case, settled 25 years ago, had an impact that went beyond the law.
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March 10, 2026
The Federal Trade Commission is placing greater emphasis on economic analyses as it implements its enforcement agenda, Bureau of Consumer Protection Director Chris Mufarrige said.
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March 10, 2026
Retailer Walmart will pay $100 million to settle allegations from the Federal Trade Commission and 11 states that it caused delivery drivers to lose tens of millions of dollars in earnings through deceptive practices.
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March 10, 2026
The Federal Trade Commission held a workshop on the use of consumer data in the economy, with the event serving as both a marker and a sequel of sorts to a workshop held in 2017.
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March 10, 2026
The American Economic Liberties Project has released a fact sheet criticizing the federal government for transforming antitrust and consumer protection into a “means for cronyism.”
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March 10, 2026
Paramount Skydance has won the race for Warner Bros. Discovery, prevailing after Netflix pulled out of contention — but the victory may prove premature. Even as federal regulators appear to have eased a key hurdle for the blockbuster media tie-up, the deal still faces potential legal challenges from individual states, where attorneys general could decide to bring their own lawsuits to block or reshape the merger.
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March 10, 2026
Few writers have tried to make a link between antitrust and religion. Perhaps they are taking to heart Jesus’ admonition from the Sermon on the Mount that “You cannot serve God and mammon.”
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March 10, 2026
The Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission’s inquiry over potential reissuance of guidance on collaboration between competitors is a green light for heavy lobbying from the antitrust bar and competition policy stakeholders seeking to influence enforcement of antitrust laws.
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February 24, 2026
Express Scripts’ settlement of antitrust litigation brought by the Federal Trade Commission covers business practices that extend beyond the rebating practices and insulin at the center of the agency’s case against the top three pharmacy benefit managers, Chairman Andrew Ferguson said Friday.
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February 24, 2026
March 2 — “The Competition and Consumer Protection Year in Review: A Panel on Enforcement Policy at the FTC” will feature Chris Mufarrige, the agency’s Bureau of Competition director, former acting FTC Chairman Maureen Ohlhausen and Noah Phillips, a former commissioner. The International Center for Law & Economics is sponsoring the event from noon to 1 p.m. at the St. Regis Hotel in Washington, DC. For more information, go to: https://laweconcenter.org/events/the-competition-and-consumer-protection-year-in-review-a-panel-on-enforcement-policy-at-the-ftc/.
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February 20, 2026
The Federal Trade Commission is again urging Congress to permanently authorize a federal law that strengthens the agency’s ability to combat cross-border fraud, according to its annual report on cyberattacks.
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February 24, 2026
The Federal Trade Commission lost more than 100 employees last year through the deferred resignation program, spending $7.6 million on salary compensation for idled employees, according to information obtained by FTCWatch.
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February 24, 2026
A US district court’s move to block the Federal Trade Commission from requiring expanded premerger antitrust forms raises fresh uncertainty around the meaning of the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act and the scope of federal oversight in mergers and acquisitions.
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February 24, 2026
The appointment of Gail Slater last year to lead antitrust enforcement at the Department of Justice was seen as an expression of philosophical continuity with past administrations. Her recent ouster — after substantial disputes within DOJ leadership about the ethics of enforcement — signaled a sharp break with the past and creates a widespread perception that the agency’s tolerance for corporate market power will increase.
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February 24, 2026
A group of Senate Democrats have raised concerns about the Department of Justice’s commitment to antitrust enforcement after the ouster of its antitrust chief Gail Slater.
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February 24, 2026
The Federal Trade Commission has finalized a consent order that requires building services contractor Adamas Amenity Services and its affiliated businesses to stop enforcing no-hire agreements.
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February 24, 2026
An executive at a metal fabrication and manufacturing firm has pleaded guilty to conspiring to rig bids for contracts affecting US military installations.