back to their employers. “There is a growing bipartisan consensus across the country that corporate incentive programs simply do not work as advertised, and a growing real ization that those who claim states need to be in the incentive game to be economically competitive are peddling a myth,” said Pat Garofalo, Director of State
out last year. in a colorful order, u.s. district judge james e. boasberg wrote that an amended complaint the agency filed in august offered “more robust and detailed” evidence to suggest facebook has an alleged monopoly. in the filing, the ftc argued that facebook is in a class of its own and should not be
it blocked or even challenged a merger of Google, Facebook, Amazon, or Apple, four of the most powerful firms in the economy. The laxity of enforcement has real consequences, from lower wages to higher corporate concentration levels to less innovation and entrepreneurship. In short, the Federal Trade Commission has been an institutional failure for four
language, inadequate notice of signing up and charging customers, and practices that put multiple obstacles in the way of people who want to cancel. “It has a real impact on consumer finances,” says Sarah Miller, executive director of the American Economic Liberties Project, an anti-monopoly advocacy group. “It’s essentially a form of soft theft.” A
Apple on Wednesday surprised consumer rights activists by announcing a program that will provide spare parts and detailed instruction manuals for iPhones and Mac computers to individuals and independent repair shops, so they can feasibly fix the devices. The program, called Self Service Repair, goes into effect early next year and will initially apply to