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A rough climate for corporate mergers

- Analysis
The climate for corporate mergers isn’t looking too good right now, as the supermarket retail chains Kroger and Albertsons have announced that they are delaying their highly publicized and extremely controversial merger,

Some dietitians are bad influencers

- Analysis
The FTC has sent “warning letters to two trade associations and 12 registered dieticians and other online health influencers..." Here's why.

More doubts about the Kroger-Albertsons merger

- Analysis
You have read it in every mutual funds prospectus: past performance does not guarantee future results.

Why the FTC beef with Amazon excludes grocery

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The Federal Trade Commission and 17 state attorneys general sued Amazon Inc., September 26, alleging that the online retailer is a monopolist that uses anticompetitive and unfair strategies to illegally maintain its monopoly power.

DOJ-FTC draft guidelines could snag Kroger-Albertsons merger

- Analysis
As I have said before, it is hard to imagine that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) will approve the controversial proposed merger of supermarket giants Kroger and Albertsons.

Kroger, Albertsons, and Lina Khan

- Analysis
I don’t read too many articles in the Harvard Law & Policy Review, but I read this one. It is entitled “Market Power and Inequality: The Antitrust Counterrevolution and Its Discontents,” by Lina Khan and Sandeep Vaheesan.

FTC demands information in supply chain probe

- General News
The Federal Trade Commission is ordering nine large retailers, wholesalers, and consumer good suppliers to provide detailed information that will help the FTC shed light on the causes behind ongoing supply chain disruptions and how these disruptions are causing serious and ongoing hardships for consumers and harming competition in the U.S. economy.