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.
Hometown is a small unincorporated riverside community located along the Kanawha River on West Virginia Route 62 in Putnam County, West Virginia, United States. Hometown has 7 streets that are intersected by 1 street. There is one gas station and an elementary school.