Partially redacted portions of the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) antitrust lawsuit against Amazon allege the company used an internal algorithmic pricing tool described as an “unfair method of competition” to test how much it could raise prices so competitors would follow.
Published: Wednesday, October 25th, 2023 @ 6:50 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Democratic and Republican members of Congress renewed efforts to prohibit fellow lawmakers from trading individual stocks.
Published: Wednesday, April 5th, 2023 @ 1:41 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) disclosed a sale of 30,000 shares in Google’s parent company, Alphabet, roughly one month before the Justice Department opened an antitrust lawsuit into the technology firm.
Published: Friday, February 3rd, 2023 @ 11:03 am
By: Daily Wire
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The reason lawmakers shouldn’t be trading stocks is simple: They’re often privy to inside information that could amount to inside trading.
Published: Monday, January 30th, 2023 @ 3:11 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Hold onto your wallets, the Attorney General has failed the patients and taxpayers of North Carolina yet again. There is widespread evidence that mergers make hospital care less affordable and less safe.
Published: Thursday, December 8th, 2022 @ 11:29 am
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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Google recently requested that the blockbuster December antitrust suit filed by ten states in response to its “illegal” and “monopolistic” online advertising practices move from Texas to the Northern District of California of the Ninth Circuit.
Published: Saturday, February 6th, 2021 @ 12:34 pm
By: LifeZette
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Each week, staff at Carolina Journal looks back at the week in N.C. politics and chooses several interesting, relevant stories you may have missed.
Published: Saturday, December 12th, 2020 @ 3:14 am
By: Carolina Journal
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State Treasurer Dale Folwell wants the U.S. Department of Justice to require all North Carolina hospitals to be transparent in their pricing and recover excessive charges hospitals made to the State Health Plan
Published: Sunday, December 2nd, 2018 @ 2:02 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Who should be required to get more training: An auto mechanic changing your faulty brakes, fixing your misaligned steering column, and replacing a leaky fuel pump - or a barber taking a little off the top?
Published: Tuesday, October 31st, 2017 @ 2:20 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The U.S. Supreme Court today vacated a 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judgment that had allowed the city of Norfolk, Va. to suppress a banner protesting the government's illegal attempt to seize private property by eminent domain....
Published: Saturday, July 4th, 2015 @ 4:13 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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