Federal Trade Commission
Federal Trade Commission is named in 65 events across the Capture Cascade Timeline, from 1914 to 2026.
Activity over time
Events per year
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-20 | Trump Executive Order Directs Restrictions on Institutional Investor Home Purchases Donald Trump · White House · Department of the Treasury · U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-08 | Supreme Court Signals Intent to Overturn 90-Year Precedent Protecting Independent Agency Leaders from Presidential Firing, Expanding Executive Power U.S. Supreme Court · Donald Trump · Rebecca Slaughter · John Roberts · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-01 | Trump Administration Drops 100+ Corporate Enforcement Actions, Penalties Fall 97 Percent Trump Administration · Department of Justice · Securities and Exchange Commission · Federal Trade Commission | confirmed | |
| 2025-11-25 | House Judiciary Democrats Release Report Exposing Trump Family's $800 Million Cryptocurrency Empire Built on Foreign Influence and Self-Dealing Jamie Raskin · Donald Trump · Trump Organization · Trump Family · +22 | reported | |
| 2025-11-18 | Meta Wins FTC Antitrust Case as Judge Rules No Monopoly Despite Instagram/WhatsApp Acquisitions Judge James Boasberg · Meta · Mark Zuckerberg · Federal Trade Commission · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-20 | FTC Deletes Consumer Protection Guidance on AI Fraud and Surveillance Federal Trade Commission · Lina Khan · Trump Appointees · Tech companies | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-22 | Supreme Court Agrees to Reconsider Humphrey's Executor, Review Trump's Power to Fire Agency Heads U.S. Supreme Court · Donald Trump · Rebecca Slaughter · Federal Trade Commission · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-09-22 | Supreme Court Allows Trump to Fire FTC Commissioner Slaughter, Threatens Independent Agencies U.S. Supreme Court · Donald Trump · Rebecca Slaughter · Alvaro Bedoya · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-09-17 | DOJ and FTC Identify 125+ Federal Regulations for Elimination as "Anticompetitive" Department of Justice · Federal Trade Commission · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-11 | FTC Launches Investigation into AI Companion Chatbots' Impact on Children Federal Trade Commission · Alphabet · Character.AI · Meta · +4 | reported | |
| 2025-09-05 | FTC Reverses Nationwide Noncompete Ban, Leaving 30 Million Workers Bound by Restrictive Contracts Andrew Ferguson · Federal Trade Commission · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-02 | Supreme Court Allows Trump to Remove FTC Commissioner, Gutting Agency Independence Chief Justice John Roberts · Donald Trump · Rebecca Slaughter · U.S. Supreme Court · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-08-13 | Trump Revokes Executive Order on Competition Donald Trump · Department of Justice Antitrust Division · Federal Trade Commission | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-03 | FCC Chair Carr Proposes Section 230 Reinterpretation at DOJ "Big-Tech Censorship" Forum Brendan Carr · Federal Communications Commission · Department of Justice Antitrust Division · Federal Trade Commission | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-02 | Zuckerberg lobbies Trump to avoid Meta antitrust trial Mark Zuckerberg · Meta · Donald Trump · Trump Administration · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-18 | Trump Signs Order to Claim Power Over Independent Agencies Donald Trump · Federal Trade Commission · Securities and Exchange Commission · Federal Communications Commission · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Trump Replaces Lina Khan with Andrew Ferguson, Signals Antitrust Rollback Donald Trump · Andrew Ferguson · Lina Khan · Federal Trade Commission · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-12-10 | FTC Blocks Kroger-Albertsons $24.6B Grocery Merger, Citing Labor and Consumer Harm Federal Trade Commission · Kroger Company · Albertsons Companies · Judge Nelson | confirmed | |
| 2024-09-20 | FTC Sues Big Three PBMs for Artificially Inflating Insulin Prices Through Rebate Schemes Federal Trade Commission · Lina Khan · CVS Caremark · Express Scripts · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-09 | FTC Report Reveals PBM Oligopoly: Top 3 Control 80% of Market, Extract $7.3 Billion Through Markups Federal Trade Commission · Lina Khan · CVS Caremark · Express Scripts · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-04-24 | Chamber of Commerce Sues FTC to Block Non-Compete Ban, Challenging Agency Authority U.S. Chamber of Commerce · Federal Trade Commission · Lina Khan · Business Roundtable | confirmed | |
| 2024-02-22 | AI Regulatory Bodies Begin Scrutiny of xAI's Grok Elon Musk · xAI · Federal Trade Commission · Irish Data Protection Commission · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2023-12-18 | FTC and DOJ Release 2023 Merger Guidelines Rejecting Consumer Welfare Standard Federal Trade Commission · Department of Justice · Lina Khan · Jonathan Kanter | confirmed | |
| 2023-12-01 | Chamber of Commerce Sues FTC Over 'Black-Box Environment' Lack of Transparency U.S. Chamber of Commerce · Federal Trade Commission · Lina Khan · Suzanne Clark | confirmed | |
| 2023-09-26 | FTC Sues Amazon for Illegal Monopoly Maintenance Through Anti-Discounting and Seller Coercion Federal Trade Commission · Amazon · Andy Jassy · 17 State Attorneys General | confirmed | |
| 2023-09-01 | FTC Issues Policy Statement on Orange Book Patent Gaming: Pharmaceutical Evergreening as Unfair Competition Under Section 5 Federal Trade Commission · Andrew N. Ferguson · Food and Drug Administration · Amphastar · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2023-07-10 | FTC Loses Microsoft-Activision Challenge, $69 Billion Merger Approved Despite Opposition Federal Trade Commission · Microsoft Corporation · Activision Blizzard · Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley | confirmed | |
| 2023-05-31 | FTC fines Ring $5.8 million for employees' illegal surveillance of customers' private videos Ring · Amazon · Federal Trade Commission | confirmed | |
| 2023-01-31 | FTC Loses Challenge to Block Meta's VR Acquisition, Major Setback for Khan Federal Trade Commission · Meta Platforms · Judge Edward Davila · Lina Khan | confirmed | |
| 2022-07-13 | Celsius Network Files Bankruptcy After Freezing $4.7 Billion in Customer Deposits, Exposing Crypto Regulatory Void Celsius Network · Securities and Exchange Commission · Federal Trade Commission · Three Arrows Capital · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2022-06-14 | FTC Blocks JAB Consumer Partners Veterinary Clinic Roll-Up: Private Equity Monopolization Strategy Federal Trade Commission · JAB Consumer Partners · JAB Holding Company · National Veterinary Associates · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2022-06-07 | FTC Launches Bipartisan Investigation into PBM Market Concentration and Drug Pricing Federal Trade Commission · Lina Khan · Chuck Grassley · Maria Cantwell · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2021-07-09 | Biden Signs Executive Order 14036: 72 Competition Initiatives, Most Comprehensive Since FDR Joe Biden · Federal Trade Commission · Department of Justice · White House Competition Council | confirmed | |
| 2021-06-15 | Lina Khan Confirmed as FTC Chair at Age 32, Youngest Ever Lina Khan · Joe Biden · U.S. Senate · Federal Trade Commission | confirmed | |
| 2020-12-09 | FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization Through Instagram and WhatsApp Acquisitions, Seeks Breakup Federal Trade Commission · Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · Instagram · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2020-05-08 | AbbVie Completes $63 Billion Allergan Acquisition: Pharmaceutical Industry Consolidates Into Oligopoly AbbVie · Allergan · Federal Trade Commission | confirmed | |
| 2020-01-01 | Dialysis Industry Systematically Steers Patients Away from Home Dialysis and Toward High-Profit Commercial Insurance DaVita · Fresenius · American Kidney Fund · Richard Blumenthal · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2019-11-15 | Bristol-Myers Squibb Completes $74 Billion Celgene Acquisition Despite FTC Concerns Bristol-Myers Squibb · Celgene · Federal Trade Commission · Amgen · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2019-07-24 | FTC Fines Facebook Record $5 Billion But Grants Zuckerberg Immunity from Personal Liability Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · Federal Trade Commission · Rohit Chopra · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2019-05-21 | FTC v. Qualcomm: Judge Lucy Koh Finds Antitrust Violations in Standard Essential Patent Licensing, Later Reversed on Appeal Federal Trade Commission · Lucy Koh · Qualcomm · Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-12-10 | University of Phoenix Enrollment Collapses 80% After Fraud Investigations - $191M FTC Settlement University of Phoenix · Apollo Education Group · Federal Trade Commission | confirmed | |
| 2018-06-06 | Northrop Grumman Acquires Orbital ATK for $9.2 Billion, Creating Solid Rocket Motor Monopoly Northrop Grumman · Orbital ATK · Federal Trade Commission · U.S. Department of Defense · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-08-23 | FTC Approves Amazon-Whole Foods Merger Despite Monopolization Concerns Amazon.com Inc. · Jeff Bezos · Whole Foods Market Inc. · Federal Trade Commission · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2016-01-01 | Whistleblower Alleges Dialysis Giants DaVita and Fresenius Steer Patients Through American Kidney Fund in $247M Kickback Scheme DaVita · Fresenius Medical Care · American Kidney Fund · Department of Justice · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2014-02-19 | Facebook Acquires WhatsApp for $19 Billion to Dominate Messaging Market Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · WhatsApp · Jan Koum · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2013-06-17 | Supreme Court Allows Antitrust Challenge to Pay-for-Delay Drug Settlements Costing Consumers $3.5 Billion Annually Supreme Court of the United States · Federal Trade Commission · Solvay Pharmaceuticals · Actavis · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2013-01-03 | Google's Political Influence Derails FTC Antitrust Investigation Federal Trade Commission · Google Inc. · Larry Page · Eric Schmidt · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2012-08-09 | Google Fined Record $22.5M for Deliberately Overriding Safari Privacy Settings Google · Federal Trade Commission · Apple · Jon Leibowitz (FTC Chairman) · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2012-04-09 | Facebook Acquires Instagram for Billion to Neutralize Potential Competitor Facebook Inc. · Mark Zuckerberg · Instagram Inc. · Kevin Systrom · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2010-01-01 | Hospital Consolidation Wave (2010-2020): 1,164 Mergers with Only 1% FTC Enforcement Rate Federal Trade Commission · Hospital corporations | confirmed | |
| 2008-04-13 | Google Acquires DoubleClick for $3.1B, Creating Advertising Monopoly Google · DoubleClick · Federal Trade Commission · Pamela Jones Harbour (dissenting FTC Commissioner) · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2007-08-27 | Questcor Raises Acthar Gel Price from $1,600 to $23,000 Overnight - Eventually Reaching 97,000% Increase Through Bribery Scheme Questcor Pharmaceuticals · Mallinckrodt · Federal Trade Commission · Humana · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2001-01-01 | Bush and Obama Administrations Cement Bipartisan Chicago School Antitrust Consensus, Approve Historic Consolidation George W. Bush · Barack Obama · Department of Justice · Federal Trade Commission | confirmed | |
| 1997-08-01 | Boeing-McDonnell Douglas Merger Approved: Defense Contractor Consolidation Creates Oligopoly Boeing · McDonnell Douglas · Federal Trade Commission · U.S. Department of Defense · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1982-06-14 | DOJ Issues Baxter's 1982 Merger Guidelines, Revolutionizing Antitrust Enforcement Toward Corporate Permissiveness William F. Baxter · Department of Justice · Federal Trade Commission · Ronald Reagan | confirmed | |
| 1982-02-09 | Reagan Appoints Robert Bork to DC Circuit Court of Appeals, Positioning Antitrust Revolution Author for Supreme Court Robert Bork · Ronald Reagan · DC Circuit Court of Appeals · Federalist Society · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1981-01-20 | Reagan Inauguration Begins Antitrust Revolution: Eight Years of Systematic Enforcement Collapse and Corporate Consolidation Ronald Reagan · William F. Baxter · Douglas Ginsburg · Robert Bork · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1977-01-01 | Department of Justice Announces Abandonment of Robinson-Patman Act Enforcement, Adopting Chicago School Critique Department of Justice · Robert Bork · Federal Trade Commission · Chicago School of Economics | confirmed | |
| 1976-09-30 | Hart-Scott-Rodino Act Requires Pre-Merger Notification, Last Major Antitrust Strengthening Before Reagan Dismantlement Gerald Ford · Senator Philip Hart · Senator Hugh Scott · Representative Peter Rodino · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1950-12-29 | Celler-Kefauver Act Closes Merger Loopholes, Strengthens Government Power to Block Anticompetitive Consolidation U.S. Congress · Representative Emanuel Celler · Senator Estes Kefauver · Harry Truman · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1936-06-19 | Robinson-Patman Act Prohibits Price Discrimination to Protect Small Retailers from Chain Store Power U.S. Congress · Senator Joseph T. Robinson · Representative Wright Patman · Federal Trade Commission | confirmed | |
| 1935-08-26 | Public Utility Holding Company Act Breaks Up Utility Monopolies Franklin D. Roosevelt · Federal Trade Commission · Electric utility industry · Securities and Exchange Commission | confirmed | |
| 1935-05-27 | Humphrey's Executor v. United States: Supreme Court Limits Presidential Removal Power, Establishes Constitutional Predicate for Independent Agencies U.S. Supreme Court · George Sutherland · Franklin D. Roosevelt · William E. Humphrey · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1933-05-27 | Securities Act of 1933 Establishes Federal Securities Regulation Franklin D. Roosevelt · Huston Thompson · Federal Trade Commission · Wall Street · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1914-09-26 | Wilson Signs Federal Trade Commission Act, Creating Expert Antitrust Enforcement Agency Woodrow Wilson · Federal Trade Commission · U.S. Congress | confirmed |
Network neighbors
Department of Justice
13× shared
Lina Khan
12× shared
Donald Trump
11× shared
Mark Zuckerberg
6× shared
Securities and Exchange Commission
5× shared
U.S. Supreme Court
5× shared
Rebecca Slaughter
4× shared
U.S. Congress
4× shared
CVS Caremark
3× shared
Department of Justice Antitrust Division
3× shared
Express Scripts
3× shared
Facebook
3× shared
Franklin D. Roosevelt
3× shared
Meta
3× shared
OptumRx
3× shared
Robert Bork
3× shared
Ronald Reagan
3× shared
Trump Administration
3× shared
Amazon
2× shared
American Kidney Fund
2× shared
Andrew Ferguson
2× shared
Big Pharma
2× shared
Boeing
2× shared
DaVita
2× shared
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