U.S. businesses are merging like crazy. And Uncle Sam is responding all wrong.

Stop fixating on the details and just reject the deals themselves!

Companies are merging left and right.
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We've got a frenzy of mergers in corporate America. And the U.S. government has backed itself into an odd corner trying to respond to it.

In America, questions about the government's relationship to the private sector have often circled around a certain skepticism about big government and regulatory heavy-handedness. But in this case, the regulators have wound up just trading one kind of heavy-handedness for another.

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Jeff Spross

Jeff Spross was the economics and business correspondent at TheWeek.com. He was previously a reporter at ThinkProgress.