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New US merger guidelines released this week - 60-day window for public comment

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Tags: business, antitrust, usa, regulation, guidelines, mergers, corporate power, substack.big by matt stoller, author.matt stoller
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/antitrust-guidelines-and-overthrowing

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Title
Antitrust Guidelines and Overthrowing a Corrupt Priesthood
Authors
Matt Stoller
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1512 words

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    Sodliddesu
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    I hate (just kidding, I love to) sound nihilistic but after net neutrality was proven to be astroturfed and then... Nothing was done about that, I don't have high hopes for this. As usual, I'll...

    I hate (just kidding, I love to) sound nihilistic but after net neutrality was proven to be astroturfed and then... Nothing was done about that, I don't have high hopes for this. As usual, I'll make a comment on the bill and support it but seeing 'John Jacobjinglehimerschidt' comment on his hate for Newsom and gas prices alongside comments about the FTC 'going too far' and not leaving 'this up to the courts' means that my name will likely get used by a bot as well and absolutely nothing will come of that.

    15 votes
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      1. boxer_dogs_dance
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        Net neutrality was a sad disappointment for sure. But change sometimes happens. In my lifetime, the Berlin wall came down and Apartheid ended in South Africa. Did that solve everything? Obviously...

        Net neutrality was a sad disappointment for sure. But change sometimes happens. In my lifetime, the Berlin wall came down and Apartheid ended in South Africa. Did that solve everything? Obviously not. But sometimes effort leads to progress.

        8 votes
  2. specwill
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    I left a comment in support, and invited people on other platforms to do the same. I get that working within the system is fraught, but I'm also not going to just cede the system entirely by...

    I left a comment in support, and invited people on other platforms to do the same. I get that working within the system is fraught, but I'm also not going to just cede the system entirely by abstaining.

    3 votes
  3. boxer_dogs_dance
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    https://www.sidley.com/en/insights/newsupdates/2023/07/us-doj-and-ftc-take-merger-review-in-new-direction-with-rewrite-of-merger-guidelines#:~:text=The%20new%20Merger%20Guidelines%20introduce,least...

    https://www.sidley.com/en/insights/newsupdates/2023/07/us-doj-and-ftc-take-merger-review-in-new-direction-with-rewrite-of-merger-guidelines#:~:text=The%20new%20Merger%20Guidelines%20introduce,least%2030%25%20market%20share.%E2%80%9D

    https://www.gibsondunn.com/us-antitrust-agencies-release-updated-merger-guidelines/

    https://finance.yahoo.com/video/ftc-doj-reveal-merger-guidelines-163945163.html

    https://www.justice.gov/atr/d9/2023-draft-merger-guidelines

    https://www.whitehouse.gov/cea/written-materials/2023/07/19/protecting-competition-through-updated-merger-guidelines/

    https://www.axios.com/2023/07/19/doj-ftc-new-draft-merger-guidelines

    https://www.whitecase.com/insight-our-thinking/us-ma-fy-2022-antitrust-scrutiny-intensifies

    https://www.skadden.com/insights/publications/2022/06/quarterly-insights/public-comments-on-us-merger-guidelines

    https://www.mofo.com/resources/insights/220916-new-merger-guidelines

    1 vote