The FTC and other competition authorities should have known all along that Sony--the entrenched market leader in video game consoles--is a pretty bad complainant over this deal. With what Insider Gaming has reported now, regulators may find it even riskier to enter into any kind of public-private partnership with the PlayStation company.
The bottom line of antitrust laws is to protect consumers from the harms of market monopolies. The harms usually accrue in the form of higher prices of goods and services for consumers. Many companies try to circumvent legal liabilities by establishing themselves as industry leaders and creating monopolies by buying out or knocking out the competition.
Microsoft is a Market Leader in Lying and Corruption
It is because the epidemic of fraud reflects not merely the subjective malice aforethought of corporate leaders, but the objective ill-health of the corporations themselves, that it has taken such a heavy toll on investor confidence and the stock market.
Aside from problems with social media, Chopra has also attacked systemic corruption in the economy. There are too many Chopra dissents and statements to go through, so I\u2019ll pick three. In 2018, two of the largest industrial gas companies in the world, Linde and Praxair, merged in a complex international transaction. For a procedural reason involving German financial rules, the FTC could have blocked this merger easily, without even having to go to court. But the FTC, with four commissioners (including Chopra\u2019s fellow Democrat, Rebecca Kelly Slaughter), voted to let it go through, arguing that the $80 billion resulting corporation would be efficient and wouldn\u2019t increase prices. Chopra dissented. Sure enough, with its new market power, the company soon announced a massive price hike, proving Chopra right, and the other four - Christine Wilson, Joe Simons, Noah Phillips, and Slaughter - wrong.
Officials in several countries, including the United States, have demanded more accountability for the aid, given Ukraine's rampant corruption. While Zelenskyy and his aides portray the resignations and firings as proof of their efforts to crack down, the wartime scandal could play into Moscow's political attacks on the leadership in Kyiv. 2ff7e9595c
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