Odd Lots: FTC’s Andrew Ferguson on MAGA Antitrust (Podcast)

Bloomberg

When Trump won in November, one of the things that Wall Street was excited about was an expected liberalization of merger rules. There was a popular view that under Lina Khan, the FTC was overly stringent about what deals it would let go through, and that the new administration would give the greenlight more often. But at least so far, reality hasn’t proven to be so simple. There hasn’t been a big merger wave yet. And, in fact, the FTC led by new Chair Andrew Ferguson has decided to keep the merger guidelines that Khan put in place. So ...