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FTC Antitrust Suit Against Amazon Is the Latest to Lack Transparency

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It began as an avant-garde crusade in the Yale Law Journal. Now Federal Trade Commission chair Lina Khan has made the long-awaited announcement that the agency – along with 17 states – has filed an antitrust suit against online-retailing be...

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DOJ, FTC Propose New Guidelines for Evaluating Mergers

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Recently, we told you about the steep decline in mergers and acquisitions as documented in an Intelligize report on dealmaking in 2022. The research showed that companies aren’t announcing as many deals as they have in the past. Moreover, m...

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Big Tech Notches Antitrust Wins Despite Aggressive Government Enforcement

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The Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission this month suffered another stinging court loss in a big tech antitrust case, raising questions about the effectiveness of the Biden administration’s aggressive enforcement of antitrust...

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Big Tech Cases Part of Larger Antitrust Campaign

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President Biden’s administration doesn’t share much in common with its predecessor – from temperament to policy positions to governing style. One notable exception, however, appears to be their willingness to take on one of big tech’s bigge...

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Inflation Surge Gives Cover in Washington for Antitrust Revival

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If you followed the coverage last week of President Joe Biden’s first year in office, you probably heard talk of the threat rising inflation poses to his administration. Economists use the term to refer to declining purchasing power as the...

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