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On January 26 the Heritage Foundation hosted a one-day conference on “Antitrust Policy for a New Administration.”
The FTC and DOJ released a joint Request for Information on the potential for a broad reaching review of merger enforcement. this follows a year of policy actions that signal dissatisfaction with the current merger enforcement. The agencies received nearly 2,000 comments.
(Archived document, may contain errors) 137 February 12, 1988 TINKERING WITH ANTITRUST LAW, CONGRESS THREATENS CONSUMERS AND COMPETITIVENESS ' U.S. antitrust law has been improving dramatically for more than a decade. Le&islation now pending in Congress, however, threatens to turn back the clock on a major part of the antitrust gains by hindering important business practices beneficial to consumers and to U.S. competitiveness.
In 1914, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) was created when President Woodrow Wilson signed the Federal Trade Commission Act into law. Since its founding, the FTC has held a unique and multifaceted role in the U.S. administrative state and the economy.