President-elect Trump’s recent deal to keep factory workers employed at Indiana-based Carrier Corporation has been a public relations blitz.
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The president-elect may seem an unlikely trust-buster, but he’s indicated an openness to reviving America’s once-robust anti-monopoly apparatus.
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There is an inherent conflict posed in the financing of policy ideas. On the one hand, money is required to assemble the data and narratives necessary to present policy options.
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The proposed AT&T-Time Warner merger is a watershed moment for our political system. Will we continue to allow the further concentration of economic power at the top, or will this be the moment when democracy fights back?
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In 1938, as the country sank into recession and national unemployment hit 19 percent, President Roosevelt announced that America had a monopoly problem. In a historic speech to Congress, Roosevelt warned that extreme consolidation was hampering the economy and threatening our democracy.
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Compared to the discourse in the other party’s nomination process, the debate between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders over health-care reform may have seemed thoughtful and on point.
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Following its mammoth deal in China, the company has an even tighter grip on ride-sharing. It may be time for antitrust officials to step in.
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Senator Elizabeth Warren delivers a keynote speech at a New America Open Markets Program event on June 29, 2016. She discusses the need for competition and the reigniting of it in America’s Economy.
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Open Markets Food & Power reporter Leah Douglass published a story on CNN examining Bayer's announcement that it intends to buy Monsanto, the world's largest seed producer. The deal could have a profound -- and negative -- effect. In short, the $62 billion deal would further concentrate power in an already highly consolidated global seed and chemical industry.
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One underexplored theme in the debate around economic inequality is the role of monopoly and oligopoly power. Despite the relative lack of attention to this topic, there is sound reason to believe that pervasive market power in the economy has contributed to the high level of economic inequality in the United States today.
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Lina Khan and Sandeep Vaheesan present a vision of antitrust that accords with what Congress intended in enacting “this comprehensive charter of economic liberty” and offer specific policy prescriptions.
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The agency's antitrust policy isn’t up to the challenges of the 21st century. Here's how to fix it.
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Like many “flyover” cities, St. Louis’s decline is not mainly a story of deindustrialization, but of decisions in Washington that opened the door to predatory monopoly.
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Open Markets Food & Power reporter Leah Douglass published a story on Fortune magazine on how over the past 10 years, America’s big meatpacking corporations have successfully pushed to overturn laws on the books protecting farmers from vertical integration and monopoly power in livestock farming and how Nebraska's "packer ban" is set to be overturned.
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Join New America's Open Markets program for a discussion of Amazon's monopoly over books and what it means for American readers and America's democracy. Some of the nation's best-known authors will discuss their personal experiences with Amazon. Antitrust lawyers and experts in Big Data and price discrimination will then discuss the larger effects of the corporation's behavior, and whether the government should bring a case against Amazon
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Excess sugar intake is killing Americans. Open Markets Food & Power reporter Leah Douglass writes a review of Marion Nestle's "Soda Politics" on the Washington Monthly, a book which demonstrates that a few giant, consolidated beverage companies keep squashing reform efforts aimed at improving the health of consumers.
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