The purpose of antitrust (also known as competition) laws is to ?

A. create public ownership of natural monopolies

B. increase merger activity to help generate synergies that reduce costs and raise efficiency.

C. regulate the prices charged by a monopoly

D. all of these answers

E. Increase competition in an industry by preventing mergers and breaking up large firms.

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