‘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.
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.
Latest News
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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.