Publications
Ahead of the House Judiciary Committee’s hearing today on the perspectives of the antitrust agencies on tech monopolies, and in light of the news of Google’s undisclosed partnership with one of the largest health care systems in the United States, the Open Markets Institute along with eight other public interest groups are demanding that the Federal Trade Commission block Google’s $2.1 billion acquisition of Fitbit.
Read More"While the FCC’s rubber-stamp of the merger is disappointing but not surprising, the group of states challenging the merger in New York next month represents our best hope of protecting our markets and making up for this massive enforcement failure," said Open Markets Reporter and Researcher Matt Buck
Read MoreToday, the Open Markets Institute, Change To Win, the National Employment Law Project, and Professors Marshall Steinbaum, Sanjukta Paul, and Veena Dubal filed an amici curiae brief supporting current and former college basketball and football players in their antitrust suit against the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).
Read MoreThe Open Markets Institute calls on the Committee for Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) to open a review of TikTok’s parent company Bytedance, as well as it’s 2016 acquisition of Music.ly.
Read MoreOpen Markets Institute and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), filed a comment with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) in response to their workshop on competition in labor markets explaining how federal antitrust enforcers should use their power to support American workers.
Read More“Non-competes strengthen the power of corporate employers at the expense of millions of workers across America,” said Open Markets Legal Director Sandeep Vaheesan. “This is a huge step in advancing worker freedom, and we applaud Senators Young and Murphy for taking it.”
Read MoreToday, Open Markets Institute Fellow Matt Stoller released his new book Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy. “We are in a moment where capitalism is being seriously questioned, and Goliath explains why," said Matt Stoller.
Read More"Demand Justice's call to elevate a diverse slate of judges who will stand up to concentrated corporate power is essential for creating a just, inclusive economy and democracy," said Open Markets Deputy Director Sarah Miller.
Read More“We strongly applaud these common-sense rules for ending dangerous concentrations of power in our economy,” said Barry Lynn, Executive Director of the Open Markets Institute. “Bernie Sanders has a simple rule. If a company is too big, it should be made smaller.”
Read More"Senator Booker’s plan is long overdue," said Open Markets Legal Director Sandeep Vaheesan. "The NCAA is, in effect, a cartel of employers robbing college athletes of fair, competitive wages, not dissimilar to how corporations in tech and other sectors have conspired to suppress their employees' salaries."
Read More"That PayPal has woken up to the dangers Libra poses to democracy, and has chosen to leave the project, is enough of a signal that the remaining consortium partners should do the same and walk away," said Open Markets Chief of Staff Laura Hatalsky in a statement.
Read More“Senator Warren recognizes that antitrust law should be an integral part of a pro-worker agenda," Open Markets Legal Director Sandeep Vaheesan said in a statement. “We applaud her efforts to return power to workers.”
Read MoreThe below is a statement from Claire Kelloway, Reporter & Researcher at Open Markets Institute, regarding Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue’s comment “In America, the big get bigger and the small go out.”
Read More“We believe that the plaintiffs have shown the existence of a collusive agreement among the ranchers and that the panel's decision is bad law and threatens to encourage other employer cartels,” said Open Markets Legal Director Sandeep Vaheesan.
Read More“Corporations are using dirty tricks to control and restrict repair in virtually every industry, from consumer electronics and appliances, to agriculture, even the military," said Claire Kelloway, Open Markets Food and Power reporter. "The FTC has the authority to break up these repair monopolies, and we hope they step in to do what’s right for consumers, small businesses, and the planet.”
Read More"This is the latest in a series of DOJ actions that threaten the legitimacy of the antitrust laws and suggest the Antitrust Division, led by Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim, is serving as an instrument of the White House," said Open Markets Legal Director Sandeep Vaheesan.
Read More“We applaud the 50 attorneys general for taking this unprecedented stand against Big Tech by uniting to investigate Google’s destruction of competition in search and advertising,” said Open Markets Director of Enforcement Strategy in a statement. “Today’s announcement marks the start of a new era.”
Read More"This morning's announcement is a major step forward in the broadening effort on the part of our democratic institutions to address Facebook's monopoly power," said Open Markets Deputy Director Sarah Miller in a statement today.
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