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.
Potosi is a city in Washington County, Missouri, United States. The estimated population in July 2008 was 2,698. It was 2,662 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Washington County. The city was founded in 1799 by Moses Austin and was named after the Bolivian silver-mining city of PotosÃ.