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This is a very quick and high-level overview of anti-trust laws.

These are laws that are intended to protect and promote competition on the merits in particular markets.

Anti-trust law is not about how big anyone businesses is.

It's about certain market sectors and how much of the market share of business controls within

those sectors and whether businesses are playing fairly within those sectors.

Healthy competition is important because theoretically it should protect consumers.

If sellers of products or services are all fairly competing with each other,

then the consumer should be able to get better products at fair prices.

Good companies should prosper.

Companies with a bad product or service should go out of business.

Overall, the economy should work pretty well for everyone.

Justice Thurgood Marshall of the Supreme Court in the 1970s wrote that anti-trust laws are the

Magna Carta of free enterprise.

They are as important to the preservation of economic freedom and our free enterprise system

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