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Antitrust laws are intended to limit anticompetitive behavior. Have these laws had the intended results accomplished and is this good or bad for business? (100 to 200 word answer/ one citation)

What is the Clayton Antitrust act and how does it affect the party’s affected by hurt by another party? (100 to 200 word answer/ one citation)

What is the Robinson-Patman Act and how does it affect the general public? (100 to 200 word answer/ one citation)

Think about all the consumer protection laws and the added costs for businesses to ensure compliance. Have we gone too far with these laws, or do we need more regulation to ensure consumer protection?(100 to 200 word answer/ one citation)

The Clean Air and Clean Water Acts assist with ensuring minimum standards must be met by businesses to operate. Given the global warming potential, consider if we need more regulations to ensure a safe environment, or, do we have too much intervention already? (100 to 200 word answer/ one citation)

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1. Antitrust laws are intended to limit anticompetitive behavior. Have these laws had the
intended results accomplished and is this good or bad for business? (100 to 200-word
answer/ one citation)
Antitrust laws are laws that aim at protecting the customers from manipulations by the
traders by promoting fair competition in the market. The laws aim at ensuring that producers lack
right to market allocation, bid rigging, price fixing, monopoly, merger, and acquisition. These laws
are operational and they include Sherman's act, Federal trade commission act, and the Clayton Act.
The Sherman's act prevents unreasonable contracts and violators pay $100 million for companies
and 1 million (US dollars) for individuals. The federal act protects against unfair methods of
competition while the Clayton act prevents mergers and acquisitions that may create monopolies
(Lifland, 2017). These laws are operational and violations attract huge penalties. In 2000 the
federal trade commission found that FMC and Asahi companies had agreed to allocate markets
creating monopolies and FMC was banned out of business for 1...


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