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Private colleges seek antitrust carve-out for cost-related woes
31 August 2017 00:00
Duration: 4:28
Many private colleges are having trouble with their finances and they say getting a carve-out of the antitrust laws might help them. MLex Chief Global Antitrust Correspondent Leah Nylen is joined by Claude Marx, a correspondent at MLex and our sister publication FTCWatch, to find out more about the rising costs and tuition fees that have led to colleges requesting this exemption from Congress.
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Claude Marx Correspondent

Claude Marx has been a reporter for FTCWatch since February 2013 and during that time has written about a range of subjects such as the implications of certain mergers on consumers, the regulation of advertising and attempts by Congress to overhaul the patent system. He also writes regularly for MLex.Before that, Claude spent four years writing about the impact of legislation and regulations on community banks and credit unions as the Washington reporter for Credit... Read more