Assertion: oligopoly | /r/HasProperty | investigated by the federal trade commission
Facets:
value: in the late nineteen-seventies
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: In the late nineteen-seventies, another high point of enforcement, oligopolies were investigated by the Federal Trade Commission, and during that era Richard Posner, then a professor at Stanford Law School, went as far as to argue that when firms maintain the same prices, even without a smoke-filled-room agreement, they ought to be considered members of a price-fixing conspiracy.