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American Antitrust Has Yet To Figure Out Conglomerates
US antitrust enforcement still struggles to address conglomerates, large corporate combinations that span different markets and may exert influence through overlapping ownership or cross-market power. Traditional antitrust analysis, built around competition within single markets, has no clear framework for these structures. The piece argues regulators need new tools to evaluate how conglomerate size and breadth can harm competition, prices, and democracy even without obvious monopoly in one sector.
Why now: Ongoing debate over corporate concentration and the limits of current US antitrust policy keeps this issue in discussion.
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