Bloomberg Law
Oct. 17, 2017, 11:54 PM UTC

FTC Official ‘Leery’ of Calls to Revamp Antitrust Law

Liz Crampton

By Liz Crampton, Bloomberg BNA

A top Federal Trade Commission official Oct. 17 brushed off a push from consumer advocates to make it easier for the government to go after big companies that disrupt markets like Google Inc. or Facebook Inc.

Referring to a populist movement to bolster antitrust laws, Bruce Hoffman, acting director of the FTC’s competition bureau, said it’s a good thing that U.S. antitrust enforcers can’t impose fines or block mergers on their own, as it works in some countries.

The current judicial system “causes us to think carefully and critically about our own views of things,” ...

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