Inconvenienced travelers blame the weather rather than antitrust policy for the chaos.
Nevertheless, there is a feeling that antitrust policy may have become too lax in fast-consolidating industries such as accounting, consumer credit and computing.
While antitrust policy across the Atlantic has veered between the activism of the Clinton administration and the relative laissez-faire of the Bush years, it has shown consistency.
But to the extent that 1990s economic theory takes us back to 1960s antitrust policy, it will do little more than protect inefficient firms and enrich lawyers and consultants at the public's expense.
Karel Van Miert, a Belgian who is responsible for antitrust policy, has completed a white paper on reforms to the working of competition law, and hopes to rule on a weighty list of mergers before his term is up.
Cecile Kohrs Lindell is a former Federal Trade Commission attorney who covers antitrust for Policy and Regulatory Report (PaRR) in Washington DC.
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Havighurst has taught courses in health care law and policy, antitrust law and economic regulation at the Duke University School of Law since 1964.
The concession comes after the Federal Trade Commission launched an inquiry around June to determine whether Apple had violated antitrust laws with the earlier policy.
They are repositories of antitrust knowledge who use their unique positions to modernize competition policy in responsible ways.
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Legally binding commitments reached in antitrust decisions play a very important role in our enforcement policy because they allow for rapid solutions to competition problems.
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Shouting out "open" or "closed" as a prescription for categorical success is at best a mirage and at worst a predicate for anticonsumer public policy, like the government's long antitrust crusade against Microsoft.
According to the people familiar with the matter, the Justice Department is examining whether Comcast's Xbox policy violated legal commitments made by the company in 2011 to secure antitrust approval for its takeover of NBCUniversal.
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But with an inexperienced new CEO, a badly botched new privacy policy, a marked decline in public trust and a looming EU antitrust investigation, it is hard to see Google dominating today's Web 3.0 world from the same unchallenged position as it once controlled the Web 2.0 economy.
Given all the controversy surrounding the company's new privacy policy, don't be surprised if this contributes to Almunia formalizing the antitrust charges against Google.
Any league-wide agreement on these subjects would be the subject of antitrust challenge by any player who asserted that he had been "injured" by the policy or whose lawyer perceived an opportunity to bring attention to his client or himself.
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