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.
Mindenmines is a city in Barton County, Missouri, United States. The population was 409 at the 2000 census. It has possessed a post office since 1883 (named Tusconia 1883-1884, Minden Mines 1884-1895, and Mindenmines since 1895).