A new report by chef Kiki Louya, published by the Open Markets Institute, examines the peanut industry, where farmer-owned cooperatives like Premium Peanut have seen great success taking on the giant shelling monopolies, and explores how other farmers might use cooperatives to circumvent monopolists.
Read MoreThe Open Markets Executive Director Barry Lynn released a statement regarding the Biden Administration, Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) taking decisive action to curb junk fees across the economy.
Open Markets Institute Food Program Manager Claire Kelloway released a statement regarding the Department of Justice’s lawsuit against the meat industry data company Agri Stats.
Read MoreOpen Markets Institute Executive Director Barry Lynn released a statement in reaction to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announcing its long-awaited suit against Amazon’s monopoly power and abuse.
Read MoreThe Open Markets Institute and partners including SEIU, Rural Advancement Foundation International-USA (RAFI-USA), Public Citizen, and more, submit a comment urging the Justice Department (DOJ) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to strengthen and clarify the new, draft merger guidelines.
Read MoreThe Center for Journalism and Liberty at the Open Markets Institute released a statement to underline the deep concerns about the public’s lack of access to US v Google, a trial on the illegality of Google’s monopolization over online search and search advertising.
Read MoreThe Open Markets Institute, SOMO and the Balanced Economy Project today made a formal submission to the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) as part of the authority’s antitrust investigation of Amazon’s UK marketplace.
Read MoreOpen Markets Institute, the Authors Guild, and the American Booksellers Association have sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) urging these agencies to focus on how Amazon abuses its monopoly power over the market for books and ideas, as regulators appear on the verge of bringing a major suit against Amazon.
Read MoreOpen Markets Institute Executive Director Barry Lynn released a statement concerning KKR’s bid to purchase book publisher Simon & Schuster.
Read MoreThe Open Markets Institute filed an amicus brief in the case of Illumina v. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), urging the Fifth Circuit to deny a petition for review in the case.
Read MoreDirector of the Center for Journalism and Liberty, Dr. Courtney Radsch, released the following statement condemning Meta for threatening to remove access to news on Facebook and Instagram in response to a new Canadian law that would require the company to fairly compensate news publishers for the content they use and share.
Read MoreThe Open Markets Institute released the following statement urging Facebook to require the same consent from U.S. users and users around the world, and called on U.S. lawmakers to step in should Facebook fail to do so in the U.S.
Read MoreThe Open Markets Institute and the Center for Journalism & Liberty have signed onto a set of ten common principles for supporting independent, sustainable journalism through fair compensation and by rectifying the power imbalances of the digital era.
Read MoreOpen Markets released a statement in reaction to the newly-published draft guidelines for mergers, release by the FTC and DOJ.
Read MoreOpen Markets will host a virtual event on Monday, July 17th to check in once again on the executive agencies’ progress on behalf of farmers, workers, & the American people. Our goal: to understand what the Biden administration must accomplish in its remaining time in office.
Read MoreOpen Markets Institute Europe Director Max von Thun puts out a statement welcoming the EC on its investigation into Amazon/iRobot.
Read MoreOpen Markets Institute Policy Director Phillip Longman released the following statement in reaction to what the White House described as a “major address” today by President Biden
Read MoreThe Open Markets Institute and Center for Journalism & Liberty are pleased to announce Courtney C. Radsch, PhD, has joined our team as the new director of the Center for Journalism & Liberty.
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