President Trump’s new FTC chair Andrew Ferguson told a group of big business CEOs on Tuesday that he wouldn’t let proposed deals “die on the vine,” but warned them not to expect automatic approval for big mergers. “If we think conduct or merger is going to hurt Americans economically, I’m taking you to court,” Ferguson told a gathering of Yale’s CEO Caucus in Washington on Tuesday morning, according to a recording of his remarks obtained by Axios. “But if we don’t, we’ll get the hell out of the way,” he said in the closed-door meeting, which included JPMorgan Chase’s Jamie Dimon, Goldman Sachs’ David Solomon and Dell’s Michael Dell.
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