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Prices are about to climb again, and the fingerprints belong to the Department of Justice.
Federal antitrust law has existed since the late 1800s because unchecked corporate power gouges consumers. The DOJ's Antitrust Division enforces that law, blocking mergers that crush competition and prosecuting price-fixing schemes that pad corporate margins at everyone else's expense. Under Attorney General Todd Blanche, that enforcement has quietly collapsed, and the collapse has a name attached to it. Gail Slater ran the Antitrust Division for nearly a year before she resi

Maria Salinas
5 days ago4 min read
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