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.
Argyle is a village in Maries and Osage counties in the U.S. state of Missouri. The population was 164 at the 2000 census, at which time it was a town. The Osage County part of Argyle is part of the Jefferson City, Missouri Metropolitan Statistical Area.