Answer:It is an independent administrative agency. Since the agency was established by President Woodrow Wilson, it has been protecting investors, consumers, and business from practices that are anti-competitive. Some of the anti-competitive practices include monopolies, unfounded product claim, monopolistic merger, price fixing and bid-rigging. The FTC function has greatly help the U.S economy to function properly, safely for investors, consumers, and businesses at large.
The main reason the federal trade commission was set up was to re-enact, regulate and made some clarification to what the antitrust act and Clayton antitrust act prohibited. These two laws encourages competition to the detriment of consumers and investors.