Whole Foods and the FTC

The FTC, the federal agency charged with the task of interfering in free enterprise, is challenging the right of Whole Foods to purchase Wild Oats.

The argument goes that once the purchase is consumated prices are likely to increase. Keeping them apart will keep prices down. The case will be decided by a federal judge who will have to determine whose economic experts make the most persuasive predictions.

Does anyone out there care however about the erosion of our collective right to attempt market domonance. Our leaders preach it in their speaches, and make us the envy of the wold. At home however they discourage attempts to reach such hights by unleashing the FTC, the federal trampler of competition, on companies that have become just too successful for their and our own good.