For those of you unable to follow my live Twitter feed from the press conference yesterday morning (granted, for those of you on the West coast I started at 5am), I attempted to capture a lot of the sentiment coming out of an event featuring retailers, consumer advocates and government representatives who promised a hearing…

Antitrust experts from the government, legal and academic communities are joining retailers and consumer advocates in Washington, D.C. on Thursday to discuss the anti-consumer effect that newly legal price-fixing, also known as ‘retail price maintenance’ (RPM), has had on the cost of consumer products. From 1911 to 2007, antitrust law prohibited manufacturers from punishing retailers…