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372 | CFPB Director Rohit Chopra: Reviving America's Anti-Monopoly Tradition

The Realignment

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The FTC's Role in the Overhaul of the Meat Industry

The FTC could have played a role during that 40-year period, he says. A law called the Robinson-Patman Act was supposed to help protect local businesses from abuses of chains and others,. That was the law in the books and the FTC just decided we're not going to enforce it. So I really think that rule of law focusing on those existing legal prohibitions, when you don't enforce those, you pay the price for it as a country.

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