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...Epic Games will pay a total of $520mn in a pair of settlements with the US Federal Trade Commission over claims that the Fortnite developer illegally collected data on children and manipulated millions of...
...These questions tiptoe into territory that antitrust regulators at the Federal Trade Commission are interested in. At what point does an incredibly seductive consumer offering become a monopoly issue?...
...The [US Federal Trade Commission], SEC, and other federal agencies exist to regulate bad products. This is what governments do....
...Similarly dubious practices resulted in Fortnite creator Epic Games agreeing this week to pay a $520mn settlement to the US Federal Trade Commission....
...Saleh al-Ateeqi’s departure follows a period of turbulence at one of the world’s largest sovereign wealth funds that has been characterised by high staff turnover and legal battles with former employees....
...There is for sure a debate to be had about when the Federal Reserve et al should have pivoted their stance more forcefully to tackle inflationary pressures, and what they should and shouldn’t do now....
...Trade Commission....
...et al v....
...(Quartz) Saudi sovereign wealth fund scopes banks for ESG framework — sources (Reuters)...
...Just ask Yasir al-Rumayyan, governor of the Saudi Arabian sovereign wealth fund, who uttered similar words during a virtual conference last month....
...But there is a direct trade-off between the technology’s effectiveness and potential invasions of privacy....
...Just as a federal judge in New York gave T-Mobile and Sprint his seal of approval to close their $59bn deal, the Federal Trade Commission announced it would review past acquisitions made by the (relatively...
...Through a sovereign wealth fund, Doha is one of BPY’s biggest investors, holding $1.8bn worth of BPY preferred equity....
...Feldman et al. have a sense why that is:The access to capital investment and the ability to spread risks among many small shareholders appears to facilitate heavier investments in R&D, arguably the riskiest...
...Joseph Simons, the chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, has pledged “vigorous” antitrust enforcement, including hearings later this year on competition and consumer protection....
...The US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is working with Trump administration officials to identify power plants that are "critical" to the power grid, in a sign they want to try again to subsidise uncommercial...
...We followed along with FDR, Eisenhower, JFK, Reagan, Clinton and Bush et. al in their postwar course because we wanted to or had to: there was no alternative worthy of considering or competition....
...Liikanen remains a probable alternative and would also be a good leader for the ECB for many of the same reasons as V. de Galhau....
...It saw further adoption by those who saw it as a way out of hyper-inflating local currencies (Venezuela et. al), and now price is increasingly being driven by speculation on an appreciating asset (a new...
...Others say pristine loan books are not a good indicator of the stress lurking in the system....
...RBS must divest Williams & Glyn by the end of 2017 as a condition of European Commission rules for receiving a £45bn bailout during the financial crisis....
...I will discuss the economic effects of protectionism another time. —————————————————————————————————— Footnotes [1] Ricardo Caballero et al have published similar work, and John Cochrane has responded...
...As its wealth grows, the brokers and traders on which CME depends for liquidity are chafing under cost pressures....
...Sensible sentences from Citi’s Buiter et al on China’s valuation shock (with our emphasis): This decision by the PBOC is a significant event, even if its implications and motivations are not yet fully clear...
...The question is whether that benefit would look so attractive were JPMorgan et al forced to internalise most of the costs of a breakup while remaining in their current form....
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