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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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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and 17 state attorneys general sued Amazon on Tuesday for allegedly using “interlocking and anticompetitive and unfair” strategies to maintain its monopolistic power over current and future rivals.
Published: Saturday, October 7th, 2023 @ 2:52 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Folwell said the consolidation of healthcare has resulted in lower quality, lower access, and higher cost.
Published: Thursday, March 30th, 2023 @ 7:45 am
By: Carolina Journal
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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 Department of Justice (DOJ) is reportedly prepping to sue Google over the tech behemoth’s dominance in the digital advertising space.
Published: Monday, January 30th, 2023 @ 6:33 pm
By: Daily Wire
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California filed a lawsuit against Amazon on Wednesday, claiming that the company limits price competition through its practices.
Published: Wednesday, October 5th, 2022 @ 5:38 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The effort by a number of House Members to introduce legislation to break up Big Tech giants Apple, Amazon, Google, and Facebook has reportedly passed an initial hurdle, with a House committee approving the legislative move.
Published: Thursday, July 8th, 2021 @ 8:01 am
By: Daily Wire
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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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Federal regulators are getting increasingly uneasy with proposals such as a partnership involving UNC Health Care and Carolinas HealthCare System
Published: Wednesday, September 20th, 2017 @ 11:55 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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During the progressive era, federal antitrust enforcement agencies were known as "trustbusters." They were usually depicted as righteous warriors courageously fighting to rescue helpless ordinary citizens from the machinations of rich and powerful monopolists. In reality, federal trust busting...
Published: Sunday, March 15th, 2015 @ 6:30 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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My colleague Jon Sanders has already commented on last week's Supreme Court decision in North Carolina State Board of Dental Examiners v. Federal Trade Commission. As Jon suggests, this is a good result in many ways — the bad guys lost, and the good guys will eventually benefit. It is...
Published: Tuesday, March 10th, 2015 @ 5:55 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina is one of the more aggressive states in the nation in licensing occupations. This is a significant impediment to freedom in a state that once boasted, and ought to be able to again, of being "First in Freedom."
Published: Friday, March 6th, 2015 @ 1:29 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The obvious problem with the cause often identified as "states' rights" is that it has sometimes been used to defend odious practices such as slavery and segregation. There's an even more basic problem, however, and it lies in the wording of the phrase itself. Governments can have...
Published: Tuesday, March 3rd, 2015 @ 8:10 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In a decision released Wednesday, a 6-3 majority of the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the North Carolina State Board of Dental Examiners violated federal antitrust laws by engaging in self-dealing in ordering service providers that do not have dental licenses to cease and desist from whitening...
Published: Friday, February 27th, 2015 @ 6:10 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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