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The FTC Takes Action to Raise Wine and Spirit Prices

In a 3-2 party-line vote, a divided Federal Trade Commission (FTC) moved Dec. 18 to seek a federal district court injunction against Southern Glazer’s Wine and Spirits LLC, the largest U.S. distributor of wines and spirits. The FTC complaint alleges that Southern’s discounting practices discriminated against small independent businesses, violating the Robinson-Patman Act (RPA), to The FTC Takes Action to Raise Wine and Spirit Prices

A Possible Federal Role in Reducing State Red Tape

The incoming Trump administration’s commitment to reduce extremely costly regulatory burdens will feature the new Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) evaluation of federal overregulation. But economic research indicates that harmful regulatory bloat exists at the state level, as well. The new administration may wish to propose solutions to state regulatory overreach that harms many Americans. Generic Overregulation at the State A Possible Federal Role in Reducing State Red Tape

Antitrust at the Agencies Roundup: Rounding up the Roundups

It’s Not All About Price, Except When We Say So I don’t know if this is the end of an era, the end of an error, a bit of both, or something far more complicated than that, but let’s start with Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Commissioner Melissa Holyoak’s dissent in In the Matter of Southern Antitrust at the Agencies Roundup: Rounding up the Roundups

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