Old-school antitrust with modern economic tools
By: Debbie Feinstein, Bureau of Competition | Sep 18, 2015 12:08PM
Today I spoke to a group of antitrust practitioners and business people at a GCR Live event in New York, where I discussed the court’s decision in FTC v. Sysco Corp.
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Change may be coming to a plug near you
By: John Seesel, Office of the General Counsel, and Jim Mongoven, Bureau of Competition | Sep 16, 2015 2:30PM
It’s easy to be blasé about electric power: Flip a switch and the lights come on. Plug in your phone and it recharges. Maybe you have a vague sense that behind the plug is a vast infrastructure of lines and junction boxes, all leading back to far-away power plants that generate electricity. But new technologies and growing interest in ‘green’ energy sources are prompting policymakers to rethink public utility regulation – and suddenly, what happens behind that plug could get a whole lot more interesting.
