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FTC Antitrust Suit Against Amazon Is the Latest to Lack Transparency

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It began as an avant-garde crusade in the Yale Law Journal. Now Federal Trade Commission chair Lina Khan has made the long-awaited announcement that the agency – along with 17 states – has filed an antitrust suit against online-retailing be...

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Companies See Rising Risks in Doing Business with China

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The term competition has a different meaning in business than in the context of sports and games. In chess or baseball or parchesi, players follow defined rules to achieve objectives versus their opponents. In business, there is no standard...

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Interlocking Directorates: All the Rage in Corporate America

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

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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