If the FTC can expand its powers under Section 5, he said, it will be doing so under a statute that has none of the limitations of the last 40 years circumscribing the ability of regulators to overreach.
However, they will be less pleased that Mr Sants makes clear that there is a price for them of winning that argument - which is that he and his colleagues at the PRA will be spending rather more time bossing them around, and circumscribing their activities, than they might like.