Federal Trade Commission
Antitrust enforcers could block Netflix–Warner Bros. deal
Netflix announced its plan to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) for $83 billion on Friday. The merger between the entertainment giants will likely draw international antitrust scrutiny, as rival bidder Paramount Skydance…
Meta’s victory over the Federal Trade Commission shows the market moves faster than antitrust enforcement
The federal government's yearslong case to label Meta a monopoly ended on Tuesday when a federal court ruled in favor of the tech giant. The ruling sets the important precedent that the current market in which a dominant…
Lina Khan joins Zohran Mamdani’s transition team. That’s a bad sign for NYC.
Fresh off of trouncing competitors like former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa in this week's election, future New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani has announced his transition team. One name stands out as an especially…
iRobot faces bankruptcy after Elizabeth Warren helped kill Amazon merger
A struggling American manufacturer may soon face bankruptcy. This was not just the result of low sales, but of government regulators butting in. Online retail giant Amazon announced in August 2022 that it had agreed to…
Live Nation’s and Ticketmaster’s merger isn’t to blame for high prices—you are
Thanks to federal antitrust enforcers, it could soon become harder for you to see your favorite band live. On Monday, Live Nation announced that it will no longer allow ticket brokers to have multiple Ticketmaster accounts…
Amazon is being forced to pay $2.5 billion for making it easier to sign up for Prime
Before Amazon's multi-billion-dollar settlement with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Thursday, it was anyone's guess how Americans were supposed to know that clicking "No, I don't want free…
SCOTUS is now poised to overrule ‘Humphrey’s Executor,’ a 1935 precedent limiting presidential power
In 1935, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held that President Franklin Roosevelt acted illegally when he tried to fire an anti-New Deal commissioner from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The FTC "cannot in any…
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