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Antitrust Enforcement
397 published works
The Contingency
Antitrust Division: Going Straight for the Capillary
Front view of a yellow dog. Blawgletter has poked fun at the Department of Justice's Antitrust Division -- most recently announcing that the Division disbanded itself because its "voluntary compliance"…
The Contingency
The Antitrust Division — at Work?
The federal government spends more than $140 million a year on the U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division. What do we taxpayers get for our money? Aggressive prosecution of cartels…
The Contingency
Annals of Antitrust Enforcement: Don’t Blame Us
Blawgletter has once in awhile mentioned the (cough) less assertive (cough cough) antitrust enforcement (cough cough cough) that we've seen since January 2001 (cough cough cough ack). The NYT --…
The Contingency
More on Antitrust, Boom and Bust
Did T.R. pull his antitrust punches? Blawgletter has speculated that antitrust enforcement runs in cycles (see here). More support for the guess comes today from the pages of San…
Antitrust Law Blog
DOJ Antitrust Highlights
On November 28, the Antitrust Division with the FTC announced that they will hold a series of public hearings designed to examine the antitrust implications of single firm conduct under…
Blog of Reason
Ongoing Lessons From Poughkeepsie
In the same month that the Federal Trade Commission and the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice released their Antitrust Guidelines for Collaborations Among Competitors (“Collaboration Guidelines”), the…
Blog of Reason
Should the Antitrust Division, the FTC, and State Attorneys General Formally Allocate the Market for Antitrust Enforcement?
The Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission, and state attorneys general, as any antitrust aficionado knows, have dramatically improved the level of communication, cooperation,…