UNITED STATES: Obama tightens antitrust enforcement

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  • Bush-era policy mechanisms
  • Bush enforcement policy
  • FTC criticism
  • Obama policy shift
  • Varney observations
  • New team and approach
  • FTC reaction
  • Effective enforcement
  • Obstacles to tighter enforcement
  • Supreme Court
  • Lower courts
  • No statutory reform
  • Expected impact
  • M&A implications
  • Litigation tests
  • Justice-FTC comity
  • US-EU antitrust convergence?

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