‘When I was there’: Former officials extol FTC’s bipartisan structure

Regardless of the final outcome of litigation involving two members of the Federal Trade Commission, March 18, the day President Donald Trump purportedly fired the Democrats, is an important moment in the agency’s history.

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Real antitrust questions we need economists to answer

The discipline of economics has greatly improved the quality of antitrust analysis in some respects, and in other respects has ignored key issues. To broaden the usefulness of its findings, the economics profession could undertake specific new research projects.

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Privacy Corner: Creator of ‘Screenagers’ crusades against phones in classrooms

Dr. Delaney Ruston had been making documentaries about mental health issues for years. But it wasn’t until she had young teens pleading for more screentime that Ruston delved into understanding how...

House members ask subcommittee to seek FTC study of concession prices

When the New York Liberty took the court earlier this month at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, the problem was not getting fans in the seats to see the reigning WNBA champions. The issue in the...

Media Matters says FTC probe should be blocked by judge

Media Matters upped the stakes in its free-speech lawsuit against the Federal Trade Commission, asking a judge to grant an injunction blocking the agency’s probe of the liberal content-moderation...

FTC officials spell out enforcement agenda

The Federal Trade Commission’s newest bureau directors used the friendly confines of the American Enterprise Institute as they made a promise to be aggressive enforcers while showing restraint.

New York legislature passes ‘click to cancel’ law

With only hours left in her tenure as chair of the Federal Trade Commission in January, Lina Khan dashed off a letter to New York’s governor calling for the state to update its consumer protection...

Antitrust whistleblower program could disrupt cartels, but questions loom

The Department of Justice’s new whistleblower rewards program opens up a new avenue for the agency’s Antitrust Division to learn of potential cartels and supplement its leniency program, but...

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High court, high snark

If you like your legal analysis with intellectual rigor and more than a bit of snark, then Leah Litman has written just the book for you.