In this issue of The Corner, we highlight concentration in the voting machine industry, look at how Facebook and Google have monopolized advertising, and, in the process, threatened local journalism.
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Kevin Carty published an article in the New York Post explaining how big tech's monopolistic rule is hiding in plain sight.
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Open Markets Food & Power reporter Leah Douglas published an article in Washington Monthly explaining how corporate-run agricultural co-ops are squeezing the very farmers they’re supposed to protect. The depressed state of rural America is getting a fresh look as a result of the 2016 election, and rightly so. People are asking how to bring back rural prosperity and restore small-town civic life.
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Some antitrust experts are skeptical of whether those benefits will be passed onto consumers. Phillip Longman, policy director at the Open Market Institute and a health policy lecturer at Johns Hopkins University, said the Aetna-CVS merger could create new problems along with the ones it solves.
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Brian Feldman, of the antitrust research group Open Markets Institute, argues that mergers in the past few decades have “created a funhouse mirror situation—the drug industry’s incentives have become incredibly warped.”
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Amazon, Khan told me, should be viewed "as an infrastructure company." And as a group, big tech "are utilities on which other companies depend," equating to the 19th century railroads, which their owners exploited to outsized profit advantage because they could.
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We discuss an under-reported proposal to shift the balance of power within the Federal Communications Commission, look at how concentrated economic power harms patients and healthcare employers, and explain why antitrust enforcement may come sooner rather than later for tech giants.
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Open Markets Institute Advisory Board Member Roger McNamee published an article in Washington Monthly explaining why the social media platform’s business model is such a threat and what to do about it.
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The Open Markets Institute's work documenting the effects of corporate concentration was featured in Bloomberg Businessweek.
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In this issue of The Corner, we look closely at three of the biggest anti-monopoly questions for 2018, the boom in anti-monopoly political candidates, and a compounding factor behind the Spectre and Meltdown flaws in Intel computer chips.
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Phil Longman published an article in Democracy Journal about the need for antitrust enforcement to curb consolidation in the healthcare sector.
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Happy holidays from the Open Markets Institute. In this issue of The Corner, we cover developments ranging from the repeal of net neutrality and its effect on telecommunications and media corporations, to the details behind the Disney-21st Century Fox merger, to the real reason behind the loss of independent stores in New York City.
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By introducing a special rule for “two-sided” markets, the Second Circuit needlessly departed from a longstanding approach to antitrust law. Its new rule greatly raises the burden that a plaintiff in the “twosided” market context must carry at the very earliest stage of litigation.
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Barry C. Lynn, Executive Director of the Open Markets Institute, testified at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing entitled “The Consumer Welfare Standard in Antitrust: Outdated or a Harbor in a Sea of Doubt?”
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Dear friends, this is the inaugural issue of The Corner, a digest of need-to-know news about the concentration of economic power in America, and what people are doing about it. As a member of our list, we thought you'd be interested in The Corner. But if you'd prefer not to receive this newsletter, you can easily unsubscribe at the end of this e-mail. In this week's issue, we cover developments ranging from CVS's bid to take over Aetna to the ways in which the Republican tax bill promotes consolidation to important new data on how monopoly is aggravating regional inequality.
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Open Markets recommended reading.
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Explore the impacts of today’s extreme levels of economic concentration with Open Markets Institute, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Congressman David Cicilline (D-RI), Luigi Zingales & more.
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Why liberals have embraced our most dangerously reactionary founder
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