The Federal Trade Commission oversees the enforcement of the nation's numerous antitrust and consumer-protection laws. The Commission investigates accusations of illegal activities related to commercial activity, as well as unfair trading practices that threaten consumer choice. The FTC also must approve company mergers that might create monopolies or near-monopolies. As a 2002 report from the FTC stated, if its "successful merger challenges prevented price increases of just one percent of the $24 billion of commerce in the markets protected by those challenges, the......

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