Discover how antitrust laws encourage market competition and prevent monopolies across industries, focusing on mergers, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I'm an antitrust expert and former FTC general counsel. Nov 04, 2025, 05:43pm EST Nov 05, 2025, 09:47am EST Citizens are walking ...

Non-compete clauses in employment agreements typically prevent former employees from working for a competitor of the former employer for a specific period of time in a designated geographical area.

For example, antitrust regulators rewrote merger guidelines to hinder the very sorts of acquisitions that spur startups. They also pursued an expansive theory of harm in the Visa debit-network ...

While the antitrust claims in recent FTC letters to law firms are meritless, according to experts, the administration’s willingness to use the trade regulator to achieve political goals could ...

Data is a constant source of innovation, leading to new, improved, and more targeted products and services across the economy. Consumers can reap benefits from companies’ use of data to improve the ...