In the Washington Monthly, Phil Longman explores how to solve the cost crisis simply by making Medicare prices universal.
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Barry Lynn was cited as a "long-time champion of greater economic competition" in a Fast Company piece exploring the movement to rethink antitrust in light of increased market concentration.
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It's long past time for the FTC to wake up to the dangers posed by Big Tech, not only to privacy, not only to our economy, but to our democracy.
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The Open Markets Institute called on the Senate to confirm pending nominees to the FTC immediately so the agency has the capacity to address the clear danger Facebook presents.
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If FTC commissioners truly are serious about making Facebook serve the interests of the American public, here is a set of actions they should take
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Read the Open Markets Institute’s public comments to the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division for the agency’s roundtable on exemptions and immunities from the antitrust laws.
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Lina Khan publishes a piece in The Journal of European Competition Law & Practice on the key tenets of the new anti-monopoly movement.
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In this issue of The Corner we look at one of the Trump Administration's first attempts to impose tariffs, and its disastrous effects on the aerospace industry; highlight new studies that confirm the role of labor monopsony in driving down wages; and explore what a Wired cover story on Facebook missed.
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Lina Khan published an op-ed in the New York Times explaining how the Ohio v. American Express Supreme Court case could shield tech corporations like Amazon, Google, and Facebook from antitrust scrutiny.
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Lina Khan explains the weight of the decision in Ohio v. American Express.
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Tim Wu, Open Markets advisory board member, writes in the New York Times about how an emphasis on consumer convenience can foster monopoly and homogeneity.
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Margrethe Vestager, the European Union’s top antitrust enforcer, appears also to be focusing on how much control a combined Bayer-Monsanto would have over the data generated from private farms.
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In this issue of The Corner, we explain how a recent congressional hearing signals bipartisan support for more aggressive antitrust enforcement, examine New York Mayor Bill de Blasio's failure to protect his constituents from Uber's predatory behavior, and highlight the monopolization of the student loan servicing industry.
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Commodity trader Archer Daniel Midlands (ADM) is in advanced talks to purchase fellow commodity trader Bunge, Bloomberg reported this week. That deal, if completed, would create a $34 billion grain company rivaling Cargill, the world's most dominant trading house
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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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