After a Prospect investigation into companies charging different prices to customers for the same products, the agency wants to learn more.
Lina Khan
Posted inEconomic Policy
Lina Khan: Extraction Exterminator
The Federal Trade Commission chair plays a key role in preventing exploitative pricing schemes from taking root.
Posted inWorking in America
FTC to Finalize Noncompete Rule Today
The fight now shifts to the courts, where the U.S. Chamber of Commerce will likely try to strip the agency of its rulemaking authority.
Posted inPolitics
The In-Flight Magazine for Corporate Jets
The Economist has channeled the concerns of elites for decades. It sees the Biden administration as a threat.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Pandemic-Era Corporate Bullying
The Federal Trade Commission found that big retailers threatened to punish suppliers unless they got first dibs on food and household goods.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Biden’s Trustbusters Face Hurdles From Within
Despite successes in fighting corporate power, the message is muddled.
Posted inPolitics
Congress Poised to Kneecap Antitrust Division
Just as the White House begins to lean on competition policy, Congress’s government funding bill cuts the Antitrust Division’s budget by 20 percent.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Harbinger in Hollywood
A tattered entertainment industry is hoping to solve its problems with mergers. Will Biden’s aggressive antitrust enforcers force a Plan B?
Posted inTAP
Jury Finds That Google Is a Monopolist
Today on TAP: Disgruntled ex-FTC employees dishing to mainstream media aside, the public understands the rampant use of Big Tech monopoly power.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The No Spin-Off Zone
The Kroger-Albertsons merger shows us why regulators need to permanently divest the concept of, well, divesting.