FTC takes up labour concern: The Tipline for 8 June 2018

Perhaps we should have foreseen, after breakfasting on avocado toast, that GCR Live New York would conclude with what some might call “hipster antitrust” from the Federal Trade Commission’s competition head. In other agency news, the assistant attorney general for antitrust has broken with ordinary convention by talking about a pending merger; while his principal deputy has discussed the difficulty in analysing the loss of innovation competition and the potential to chill investment in the extraction of data.