The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Thursday issued a public request for information on noncompete agreements as it seeks to identify practices it considers “unfair” and “anticompetitive.”
Scott Bessent, the new secretary of the Department of the Treasury under the Trump administration, made headlines twice on Monday — once for his appointment as acting director of the Consumer Financial Protecture Bureau (CFPB) and again for his order to CFPB staff to halt all bureau activities.