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by tjalfi 3398 days ago
Antitrust laws were remarkably different in the recent past. Here is an excerpt from http://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/novdec-2015/bloom-and-....

"To get a flavor of how thoroughly the federal government managed competition throughout the economy in the 1960s, consider the case of Brown Shoe Co., Inc. v. United States, in which the Supreme Court blocked a merger that would have given a single distributor a mere 2 percent share of the national shoe market."