Bloomberg BNA Merger crackdown part of ‘mixed’ Obama antitrust record John Kwoka, an economics professor at Northeastern University, said the antitrust agencies, under Obama, have taken tough actions in some cases, such as DOJ’s lawsuit this year to stop the ultimately-abandoned merger deal between Halliburton Co. and Baker Hughes Inc. But they’ve also “dropped the ball” in some instances, he said. “They should have chosen […]