Antitrust and Trade Regulation laws aim to promote free competition in the marketplace. Agreements or cooperative efforts by two or more entities that affects or restrains competitors is illegal under these laws. The Sherman Act makes illegal any contract, combination, or conspiracy in restraint of trade or commerce and makes monopolies and attempts, combinations, or conspiracies to monopolize illegal. The Clayton Act regulate price discrimination, tying and exclusive dealing contracts, stock acquisition and interlocking directorates.
Blue Mountain is a town in Logan County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 132 at the 2000 census. Edwin "Big Ed" Wilkes (1931-1998), a radio personality in Lubbock, Texas, was born in Blue Mountain but moved to Lubbock with his family in 1942.