Rolling Stone’s Andy Kroll has featured the Open Markets Institute in a new story about monopoly power’s rising presence on the political agenda, crediting Open Markets Executive Director Barry Lynn as the intellectual driving force.
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Open Markets applauds Senators Warren and Sanders for taking bold stances against monopolies this week as bipartisan momentum towards stronger antitrust enforcement in Congress continues to build.
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Today, Open Markets has sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) calling for the DOJ to block printer Quad/Graphics’ (Quad) plan to buy its biggest competitor, LSC Communications (LSC), for $1.4 billion. The letter, signed by Open Markets, the Authors Guild, PEN America, is addressed to Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim.
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The Open Markets Institute has filed an amicus brief in the First Circuit Court in the case Breiding v. Eversource Energy. In the brief, Open Markets supports a class-action lawsuit by New England residents against two vertically-integrated energy utility corporations, Eversource Energy and Avangrid.
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Open Markets Institute is pleased to announce that Sally Hubbard, a highly regarded antitrust expert and former enforcer, is joining Open Markets as Director of Enforcement Strategy.
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“We are disappointed by the D.C. Circuit's decision to affirm the District Court's ruling permitting AT&T to acquire Time Warner,” said Open Markets Legal Director Sandeep Vaheesan. Open Markets' amicus brief was cited three times in the D.C. Circuit’s decision to allow AT&T’s acquisition of Time Warner.
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Open Markets senior fellow Lina Khan and Columbia law professor David Pozen have published a new paper criticizing the idea that digital platforms should be treated as “information fiduciaries.”
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Open Markets Institute applauds the citizens, grass roots organizers, and local lawmakers who rejected the bad deal struck with Amazon last November by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.
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The Open Markets Institute calls for the Federal Trade Commission and European enforcers to block Spotify's acquisition deals.
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Open Markets Institute today welcomed a new Fellow to our team, Beth Baltzan. In her position as a Fellow, Beth will focus on the impact of monopoly power on trade and its consequences for national security.
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Open Markets Institute strongly condemns the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) decision to approve the merger of office supply giant Staples and the wholesale office supply distributor Essendant.
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Open Markets Institute calls on Congress and the Federal Trade Commission to immediately investigate how to protect America’s independent news media from the power and predatory business models of Google and Facebook.
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Open Markets believes that reestablishing the right of workers, consumers, and business to litigate cases on a collective basis is essential for taming the excesses of concentrated corporate power.
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Open Markets Institute sent a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler with recommendations on how to approach the problem of monopoly this Congressional session.
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Open Markets Offers Commentary on Democrats’ Rural Gap and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) as ‘Progressives’ Secret Weapon’
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Washington DC - Last Thursday, The Economist published a special report calling attention to the dangerous levels of market concentration in the U.S. economy and taking antitrust authorities to task for their inaction.
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After a long public drama, the corporation announces there is no real HQ2.
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Today, The New York Times published an opinion piece by Ron Kim and Zephyr Teachout, which rebukes Amazon’s potential move to Long Island, NY.
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