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.
McPherson is a city in and the county seat of McPherson County, Kansas, United States, in the central part of the state. The population was 13,770 at the 2000 census. The city is named after Union General James Birdseye McPherson, a Civil War general. It is home to McPherson and Central Christian Colleges.