The Brief Life of the Section 2 Report and the Uncertain Future of Bundled Discounts

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Daniel Crane, Jul 13, 2009

The death of the Section 2 report is a real shame. Many staff members at both agencies and many outsiders (myself included) put a significant amount of work into the hearings and the report. Contrary to the suggestion in the FTC’s dissenting statement, I saw no evidence that the hearings were stacked against more interventionist perspectives on Section 2. That certainly was not the case at the bund