Chuck Schumer has stood mute while Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell hand a gift to corporate America.
Federal Trade Commission
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Federal Government Wants to Let These Financial Predators Off the Hook
Rent-to-own businesses that have been colluding with one another could get a free pass at the Federal Trade Commission. That would be a tragic mistake.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The Men and Women Who Shrank the U.S. Ventilator Supply
A ‘killer acquisition’ merger in 2012 was waved through by the Federal Trade Commission, whose commissioners all went on to represent corporate America at top law firms.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Utah Statement: A Bulwark Against Private Power
Legal scholars have penned a statement of beliefs about how to best disrupt corporate concentration.
Posted inPolitics
Chuck Schumer Has an Important Choice to Make on Regulatory Personnel
By custom, the Senate minority leader has broad authority to name commissioners to independent agencies. Schumer must select Democrats willing to take on corporate power.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Big Tech’s Yes Men Reassure Each Other at Harvard Law Conference
A conference featuring a who’s who of Silicon Valley defenders preaches to the converted, with Trump antitrust regulators participating.
Posted inEconomic Policy
FTC About to Let Through a ‘Killer Acquisition’
In this Capitol Forum report, the merger of Roche and Spark Therapeutics, which could squash a cure for hemophilia while allowing Roche’s medication for it to thrive, is poised to be approved.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
FTC Policy: Commissioner Phillips Downplays Potential Use of Sherman Act Section 2 to Block Mergers
The agency’s antitrust investigation of Facebook is ongoing.
Posted inDay One Agenda
Unleash the Existing Anti-Monopoly Arsenal
Corporate power can be neutralized if federal agencies simply used the prodigious authority they’ve been granted.
