Aug 14, 2025
In this episode, Executive Editor Teddy Downey speaks with Catherine Simonsen—co-founder of Simonsen Susman LLP and former FTC antitrust enforcer—about the long-neglected Robinson-Patman Act.
Together, they dissect how under-enforcement of price discrimination laws has contributed to excessive consolidation, economic rent extraction, and the quiet hollowing-out of American small businesses.
Simonsen outlines legal strategies to revive these laws and challenge dominant “power buyers” like Walmart and Amazon, and explains how price discrimination distorts the supply chain from producer to pharmacy shelf. This is antitrust not as theory, but as practice.
