Quotes About Antitrust

The history of antitrust law enforcement shows that successful antitrust prosecutions have often strengthened and brought vitality to extremely large companies and businesses.

You won't get sued for anticompetitive behavior.

We have to do more than keep media giants from growing larger; they're already too big. We need a new set of rules that will break these huge companies to pieces.

Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free information.

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It's not in my mission to work against Euroskepticism; it's my mission to work for fair markets. In antitrust, what is at stake is, in some ways, as old as Adam and Eve because it is about greed, to get more.

When you love competition, you don't want the market to consolidate.

From search and books to online TV and operating systems, antitrust affects our daily digital lives in more ways than we think.

As attorney general, I would work with my colleagues in other states to launch a major antitrust investigation to look into the ways in which Facebook and Google are wielding and may be abusing their duopoly powers.

No one can say that there are no monopolistic or restrictive trade practices in India.

They used the façade of Bork's pinched academic analysis to justify killing off antitrust.

On introducing his antitrust bill in 1890, Republican senator John Sherman of Ohio thundered, "If we will not endure a king as a political power, we should not endure a king over the production, transportation, and sale of any of the necessaries of life." Sherman's

What's the "best" trade-off? Such decisions typically are buried within antitrust or antimonopoly laws, as enforced by administrative agencies and interpreted by prosecutors and courts.

The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 and its companion, the Clayton Act of 1914, were designed not only to improve economic efficiency by reducing the market power of economic giants like the railroads and oil companies but also to prevent companies from becoming so large that their political power would undermine democracy. Trustbusters during the first decades of the twentieth century tamed American industry and arguably saved capitalism from its own excesses.

An aggressive enforcer of antitrust laws could win a court victory that forced the giant to relinquish market share, although the giant's army of litigators would probably halt any such assault, and its legislative allies would discourage the assault to begin with. The more likely threat to one of the giants comes from another giant seeking to expropriate its market.

Dominant companies have a special responsibility to ensure that the way they do business doesn't prevent competition... and does not harm consumers and innovation.

He said that he felt that the time had about come when the companies should work together with a view of preventing other companies from engaging in the business

In other words, the Sherman Antitrust Act wouldn't be used against U.S.

In other words, the Sherman Antitrust Act wouldn't be used against U.S. Steel.

In this era before railroad regulation and antitrust legislation, the SIC contract didn't violate any obvious laws, only a universal sense of fair play.

He also advocated Archbold's ouster, but Senior thought it impossible to fire Archbold in the midst of the antitrust suit.

Precisely because he lost the antitrust suit, Rockefeller was converted from a mere millionaire, with an estimated net worth of $300 million in 1911, into something just short of history's first billionaire.

I'm all in favor of the FTC investigating companies when it believes there is proper cause to do so. An investigation, however, can lead to political pressure to bring a case, even if such a case is unwarranted.

The antitrust litigation currently in the federal courts in the U.S. against Monsanto will be the test case in the life sciences, just as the Microsoft case was the test case in the information sciences.