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.
Cosmos is a city in Meeker County, Minnesota, United States, along the South Fork of the Crow River. The population was 582 at the 2000 census. Minnesota State Highways 4 and 7 are two of the main arterial routes in the community. On the third weekend in July, the city holds the Cosmos Space Festival. See link below.