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Tag: Antitrust

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Golf Merger on LIV Support?

View from inside a golf hole, ball is about to fall in

Readers of this blog by now have become all too familiar with greenwashing, a scornful term critics use to paint business interests’ sustainability programs as public-relations ploys. Let us now introduce you to one of its lesser-known cous...

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Big Tech Cases Part of Larger Antitrust Campaign

Pass Go spot on a Monopoly game board

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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Interlocking Directorates: All the Rage in Corporate America

Intertwining tree vines in forest represent interlocking directorates

Ever heard of the Clayton Act?  Named after its sponsor, Alabama congressman Henry Clayton, the law was enacted in 1914 to help stamp out anticompetitive business practices deemed harmful to consumers, such as the formation of monopolies an...

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Inflation Surge Gives Cover in Washington for Antitrust Revival

Stacked Cash for the Federal Trade Commission

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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