Research associate Garphil Julien articulates how Wall Street financiers bent on short-term profits are largely responsible for America’s shortage of semiconductors and other key materials.
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Senior legal analyst Daniel Hanley writes about how federal agencies have an opportunity to take immediate action against climate change using anti-monopoly policy.
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Chief economist Brian Callaci reviews Eric A. Posner’s book, How Antitrust Failed Workers, asserting that while he expertly lays out how antitrust can do better by workers, his view is too narrow.
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Sandeep Vaheesan, legal director, argues that the Federal Trade Commission should use its expansive “unfair methods of competition” authority to codify and strengthen existing norms of fair competition under the Sherman Act.
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Senior legal analyst Daniel Hanley details how congressionally delegated powers can prohibit specific corporate conduct to require more publicly acceptable business practices.
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Luke Goldstein, reporter and researcher, writes about how billionaire tycoons are seizing control over America’s public satellite systems.
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Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan describes the important difference between promoting fair competition versus just promoting competition.
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Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan writes in the Japanese news outlet, The Nikkei, about the limits of competition policy and law as it currently stands, and how to improve it.
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Nikki Usher, senior fellow at the Center for Journalism & Liberty, writes about how public media is vulnerable to growing political interference over its operations, especially with higher education at the crossroads of the culture war.
Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan describes how Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer has played a key role in the rise of monopoly and oligopoly across the economy.
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Chief economist Brian Callaci illustrates how Amazon’s new “franchising model” for trucking companies is really a way for the corporation to pay lower wages and outsource risk.
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Senior Legal Analyst Daniel Hanley demonstrates why Congress should incorporate federal corporate chartering into their antimonopoly agenda to democratize the economy and to ensure corporations operate in the public interest.
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Financial policy director Alexis Goldstein writes about how the decentralized nature of cryptocurrencies does not correlate with the inability to comply with tax laws.
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Policy director Phil Longman argues that President Biden’s big bet on rail infrastructure will be wasted unless he takes on the financiers who control the industry.
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Senior legal analyst Daniel Hanley explains why the FCC should block Verizon’s attempt to merge with a critical competitor and market participant.
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Senior legal analyst Daniel Hanley writes in Common Dreams about Amazon’s latest ploy to release an Alexa-enabled tracking device for children—and the corporations larger crusade to monopolize markets and surveil consumer and third-party merchants.
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Policy analyst Daniel Hanley demonstrates how federal antitrust enforcers could use compulsory licensing to help bolster and speed up other anti-monopoly efforts, especially when it comes to tech giant Google.
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Garphil Julien highlights how the killing of President Jovenal Moïse took place against a backdrop of elite power, anti-competitive policies, and the U.S. failing to create open markets.
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