Market Structures

60% of debit transactions in the US run on the company’s network...

The traditional supermarket industry has shrunk as big-name grocers acquired their smaller rivals. Here are the chains that dominate near you and across the U.S.

The FTC suit targets the three biggest so-called pharmacy benefit managers, UnitedHealth Group's Optum Rx, CVS Health's Caremark and Cigna's Express Scripts.

We got our hands on location data for the biggest grocery chains in the US. Here’s what it tells us....

Coach clutch & Jimmy Choos… a 2000s fashion icon. Yesterday, Coach parent Tapestry agreed to buy rival US luxury house Capri for $8.5B. Capri...

The lawsuit says RealPage’s algorithmic pricing software lets landlords effectively collude and set rents above market rate. The Texas-based company has denied the allegations.

Kroger’s bid to acquire the Albertsons grocery biz now looks like the meme of multiple Spider-Men pointing at each other.

The Wall Street Journal recently published an article by Steven Landsburg lamenting the disappearance of `price theory’ from the Economics curriculum. Price theory is what some Economists at …

Repair needs put one line's boats out of commission, heightening worries about a lack of competition, disruption for travelers.

The size of the merger blows other recent snack food deals like J.M. Smucker’s 2023 $5.6 billion Hostess purchase out of the water.

The media mogul says he doesn't care who wins — just as long as that person doesn't do what Joe Biden has been doing for the last four years.

Here’s how the landmark antitrust decision against Google may change how you browse the web.

Google has illegally held a monopoly in search and text advertising, a federal judge ruled on Monday

Deal between the two grocery-store operators has faced regulatory scrutiny since it was announced in October 2022.

In the age of antitrust, why has Koala Kare, Big Baby Change Station, flown under the radar?

Algorithms changed the classic card game for good — but is it for the better?

A look inside drug pricing… Regulators have been investigating companies at the center of the complex pharma-distribution chain since 2022. Yesterday...

The Justice Department has sued Ticketmaster and its parent company, accusing them of running an illegal monopoly over live events in America.

Trying to dominate the market isn’t an example of anti-competitive behavior. It’s what real competition consists of.

The suit alleges that Live Nation threatened to retaliate against venues that didn’t use its ticketing service.

The Justice Department and several states are expected to file a lawsuit as soon as Thursday against Live Nation Inc, citing alleged antitrust violations at least in part due to the market dominance of the company’s Ticketmaster unit, a person briefed on the planned legal action said.

UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty is set to appear at two congressional hearings today, months after a cyberattack rattled the healthcare company.

The cookie’s owner, Leaf Brands, accuses the snacking giant of intimidating retailers and instructing workers who restock shelves to hide, misplace or move Hydrox to less desirable locations.

The antitrust laws prohibit conduct by a single firm that unreasonably restrains competition by creating or maintaining monopoly power.

Supermarket chains Kroger and Albertsons say they will sell more of their stores in an effort to quell the federal government’s concerns about their proposed merger.

A RIFF on what country is really about.

Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan joins Jon Stewart to discuss her work with the “small but mighty” government agency in protecting Americans against ...

March 21, 2024 the United States filed an antitrust complaint against Apple. The filing is a new approach to antitrust and hinges on mostly how Apple chose to design the iPhone from the very start.

There are a lot of arguments put forward for antitrust laws, but they all have problems.