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US FTC distances itself from consumer welfare standard on party line vote

By Dave Perera and Michael Acton
  • 01 Jul 2021 15:36
  • 01 Jul 2021 15:36
Newly empowered Democratic commissioners on the US Federal Trade Commission used their majority today to distance antitrust enforcement from the consumer welfare standard.
In an open meeting of the commission — the first in decades — newly seated FTC Chair Lina Khan led the agency’s three Democratic and two Republican

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Michael Acton

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Michael is a senior correspondent for MLex in San Francisco, where he moved in 2020 after working in our Brussels bureau. Before joining MLex, he reported on EU politics as the Financial Times’ Nico Colchester Fellow in Brussels. Michael has a degree in International Relations and Politics from the University of Cambridge, and a degree in History and French from University College London and Paris IV Sorbonne.

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