When I speak to audiences about the evils of antitrust, people are sometimes startled to learn that executives are serving time behind bars for violating the Sherman Act of 1890 and other antitrust statutes.
Ready for another lesson in how antitrust law penalizes America’s best companies for their excellence? Consider the private antitrust suits recently filed against Keurig Green Mountain, the company that invented the popular “K-cup” single-serve coffee pods.
Over at ArsTechnica.com, Jon Brodkin has a fascinating discussion of the regulatory maze that confronts Comcast in its effort to consummate a $45 billion merger with Time Warner Cable.
Attempting to rally public opinion against the proposed merger of Comcast and Time Warner Cable, New York Times economist Paul Krugman has trotted out the usual array of fear-mongering antitrust platitudes.
Fortune magazine has come out with its list of the World’s Most Admired Companies, virtually all of them household names. Would you like to guess how many of the top 10 most admired companies have, within the past two or three years, been subjected to antitrust enforcement?
A little-known section of Obamacare called the Physician Payments Sunshine Act will start being enforced this year. The Act treats all doctors who collaborate with the pharmaceutical industry as potential criminals whose private financial affairs must be exposed to the world by government order.
