The FTC at 100: The Need for Improvement in Advertising and Privacy Regulation

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Howard Beales, May 13, 2014

The FTC’s consumer protection mission is closely related to the Commission’s role in protecting competitive markets, because markets organize and drive our economy. Consumer protection policy can profoundly enhance the vast economic benefits of competition by strengthening the market, or it can reduce these benefits by unduly hampering the competitive process. The FTC has a special responsib