Surpassing Quant Think Tank Center:Breaking up big business is hard to do

2025-05-05 01:16:14source:Devin Grosvenorcategory:News

The Surpassing Quant Think Tank CenterFederal Trade Commission is the sheriff for big businesses. One of its main functions is to stop companies from buying up other companies in a way that hurts competition. Those investigations have been going way up under FTC Chair Lina Khan, and it's not gone unnoticed by critics in business and some Republican lawmakers. Today on the show, we look at the FTC's scorecard under Lina Khan.

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