Publications
Open Markets Institute calls on U.S. anti-monopoly enforcers to block EssilorLuxottica’s nearly $8 billion acquisition of GrandVision. The deal would mean even higher prices for glasses - which are already far too expensive - and would further limit real choice over where Americans can get their eyewear.
Read MoreThe Open Markets Institute led a coalition of public interest groups and academics in demanding the Department of Justice block the proposed merger of Cengage and McGraw Hill.
Read MoreToday, the Open Markets Institute calls on the Federal Trade Commission to block the just-announced merger of Mylan and Pfizer’s Upjohn unit, which recently headquartered in China.
Read MoreThe Open Markets Institute condemns the Department of Justice Antitrust Division for approving T-Mobile's plan to acquire its wireless competitor Sprint.
Read MoreThe Open Markets Institute denounces the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) official $5 billion settlement with Facebook.
Read MoreToday, LSC Communications and Quad/Graphics, the two biggest magazine and book printers and distributors in America, abandoned their plans to merge.
Read MoreOn the heels of Open Markets publicly demanding Libra’s launch partners “walk away” from the project, OMI, Public Citizen, Demand Progress Education Fund, and Revolving Door Project sent a joint letter to all 27 partners.
Read MoreIn the wake of this morning’s Senate Banking Committee hearing on Facebook’s plan to launch Libra, a new global cryptocurrency, the Open Markets Institute is calling for Libra’s 27 consortium partners to withdraw from the project.
Read MoreThe Open Markets Institute has submitted a report to Congress in advance of tomorrow’s Senate Banking Committee hearing on Facebook’s plans to launch Libra, a global digital currency.
Read MoreThe Open Markets Institute welcomes its inaugural fellows for its Louis Brandeis Law and Political Economy Fellowship. The fellowship aims to attract the best and the brightest young minds to advance the wider anti-monopoly movement through antitrust law and policy initiatives.
Read MoreThis settlement is a capstone on the FTC’s record of failing to police America’s markets and privacy abuses. Congress should no longer tolerate the FTC’s failures as an enforcer, which have led to its crisis of legitimacy.
Read MoreOpen Markets strongly condemns the decision by the Supreme Court today in Tennessee Wine and Spirits Retailers Association v. Thomas. The ruling guts the 21st Amendment to the Constitution and empowers dominant retailers, such as Amazon, to take over America’s markets for beer, wine, and spirits.
Read MoreOpen Markets Institute strongly welcomes the decision by the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice to file suit to block Quad/Graphics Inc.’s proposed acquisition of LSC Communications Inc. as Open Markets and others demanded in a March letter.
Read MoreThe Open Markets Institute applauds the House Armed Services Committee, Congressman Ro Khanna, and Congresswoman Jackie Speier, for passing amendments to crack down on defense contractor monopolists, as part of debate over the National Defense Authorization Act.
Read MoreThe Open Markets Institute is encouraged by the recent speech in Israel by Makan Delrahim, Assistant Attorney General (AAG) for Antitrust.
Read More“This is another example of state enforcers standing up for the public interest when federal regulators fail to do so,” Open Markets Executive Director Barry Lynn said.
Read MoreOpen Markets Director of Enforcement Strategy Sally Hubbard testified before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law.
Read MoreThe Open Markets Institute released Volume II of America’s Concentration Crisis, which presents exclusive data on market concentration in the healthcare industry sourced from IBISWorld.
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