Nearly 17 months after the Federal Trade Commission filed suit against the nation’s three largest pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), the agency has reached a settlement with one of them: Express …
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Germany’s competition watchdog has turned a familiar retail feature into an antitrust offense. In a recent decision, the German Federal Cartel Office (FCO) effectively faulted Amazon for showing shoppers only …
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Canada is on the verge of hard-coding costly mistakes into its merger policy. The Competition Bureau’s proposed merger guidelines aim to translate Parliament’s recent overhaul of the Competition Act into …
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The United States and Argentina signed a trade and investment liberalization agreement last week aimed squarely at market distortions. The pact would cut tariff and non-tariff barriers, while targeting entrenched …
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The neo-Brandeisian movement—emphasizing market structure and fairness over consumer welfare—has struggled to gain traction in several jurisdictions. In Europe, by contrast, lawmakers have codified its core premises. The Digital Markets …
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The 1970s were a strange time, to put it mildly. Chicken farmers gassed, drowned, and suffocated roughly a million baby chicks. “It’s cheaper to drown ’em than to put ’em …
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Toward the end of the Biden administration, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) sought to revive the Robinson-Patman Act of 1936 (RPA), a statute federal enforcers had largely shelved for three …
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Federal video regulation still treats broadcast, cable, and streaming as separate worlds. Consumers do not. The gap between how the law classifies video services and how people actually watch them …
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In a seventh-season episode of The Simpsons, Bart tunes in to the Impulse Buying Network and spends $350 on an animation cel from The Itchy & Scratchy Show. As part …
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The Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) lawsuit against Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits looks increasingly like a case in search of both a theory—and the facts to support it. In FTC …