at Santa Cruz County Courthouse Gary Johnson, the homeless activist doing the nightly protest against the Sleeping Ban, the Lodging Ban, and the curfew at the Santa Cruz County Courthouse from late December

Price fixing is nothing new, but the past month has seen a spate of cases arriving before the courts - and the punishments dished out suggests that authorities around the world are taking a tough stance.

Many of us remember when the U.S. Department of Justice broke up the old telephone monopoly.

Greece, which bought 14 percent of its imported oil from Iran in the first half of 2011, wants the EU to.. » FULL STORY

Who are the real villains on Wall Street? When it comes to institutionalized greed and corruption, nothing tops the too-big-to-fail banks like JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America and Goldman Sachs.

Economists the world over are running around like headless chickens in the wake of the global financial and banking crises.. » FULL STORY

“I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values.” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 1967

The United States is scarcely alone in suffering from an analytic myopia or intelligence failures. The most important events.. » FULL STORY

Global propaganda continues to try to create an image of peacemakers as though they were ignoring their personal interests in destroying countries rich in mineral resources.

as attorney generals question legitimacy of political resolution efforts

European ministers are expected on Monday to endorse new rules to curb potential abuses in the continent’s fast-growing energy markets, including insider trading.

The dangers of the recent dioxin-contaminated eggs, which originated from Germany, were again downplayed by the European Commission today (7 January).

The choice of L. Papademos for the post of the Prime Minister of Greece was not random. He is a.. » FULL STORY

A new provocative wealth redistribution at the expense of the working class.

A recent report on corporate spending on political campaign praised Microsoft highly for.. » FULL STORY

Wracked by debt but blessed with abundant sunshine, Greece plans to develop some 20,000 hectares of solar power parks in a bid to export renewable energy to Germany, a report said on Saturday.

In most EU countries, the highest share of environmental tax revenue comes from households, with Denmark at the top of the rankings.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has agreed to give BP more time to clean up after the oil spill in Hammond. For the first time, the agency also called the spill a threat to human health and the environment.

In the last days, protests were held in various cities of Romania against the.. » FULL STORY

As Greeks brace themselves for the most frugal Christmas in recent memory, they cannot ignore the tales of desperation making headlines almost daily and the small colonies of homeless people lining central streets of Athens.

since last night.LIVE broadcast from the occupied building in Athens -the place issuing the electricity disconnection orders

The European Union is investigating whether drug companies Novartis and Johnson & Johnson colluded to keep a generic painkiller out of the Dutch market, the bloc's antitrust watchdog said Friday.

Microsoft is set to get the approval from Brussels for the acquisition of the online phone service Skype.

Gazprom, the Russian energy giant, and several of its main European customers have been raided by competition authorities at the start of a flagship Brussels investigation into suspected market abuse.

The American Antitrust Institute (AAI) today called on the Federal Trade Commission (FTC),.. » FULL STORY

The president of the American Antitrust Institute and father of a literary brood on the difficulty of getting his advocacy group off the ground

This briefing paper, prepared for World Competition Day, summarizes some current evidence on cartels showing that deterrence is much less than optimal, and proposes five reforms.