Open Markets statement on the passing of former FTC Chairman Robert Pitofsky.
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Federal crop insurance and livestock indemnity programs mainly serve larger, industrial farms. After a disaster like Hurricane Florence, where do small farmers turn? Open Markets Food & Power reporter Claire Kelloway published a story on Civil Eats highlighting the damage done to farmers after Hurricane Florence and how the Federal crop insurance is failing small farmers.
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The Federal Trade Commission should get tough and break up Facebook. It has the power to force spinoffs of Instagram and WhatsApp, and needs to use it.
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Jeff Bezos runs a powerful monopoly that causes him to exert huge power and control. We shouldn’t be praising him but tackling his power
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In this issue, we look at how Wall Street chokes America's railroads, in turn hurting manufacturers, farmers, and the economy. And SEC Commissioner Robert Jackson explains how an investment banking cartel for IPOs hurts growing small and midsize businesses.
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Today, the Open Markets Institute filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court in support of the respondents in Apple, Inc. v. Pepper. In this case, the Court will decide whether iPhone users can sue Apple for damages resulting from the company’s monopolization of the distribution of iPhone apps.
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Read the amicus curiae brief of the Open Markets Institute in UFCW v. Novartis here. The class action monopolization suit alleges that, in order to keep its monopoly over the cancer treatment drug Gleevec, Novartis illegally obtained a patent by submitting false information about the drug's active ingredient to the Patent Office.
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Open Markets Institute Legal Director Sandeep Vaheesan testified at the Federal Trade Commission’s Second Hearing in its “Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century” series at the Constitution Center.
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Open Markets Legal Director Sandeep Vaheesan is quoted on POLITICO’s Morning Tech on the Federal Trade Commission’s hearing on “Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century.”
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Welcome to The Corner. In this edition, we ask if the FTC's big series of hearings is just a big waste of public money. And we point out the dangers - and hypocrisies - in the DOJ's approval of the Cigna-Express Scripts merger.
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The Open Markets team strongly supports Senator Warren’s call to separate the business of retailing from the business of making things.
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Last week, a coalition of farmers, fishermen, and food system activists launched a new campaign that calls on three dominant food service management companies, Aramark, Compass Group, and Sodexo, to increase local and humane food purchasing, invest in racial equity, and reduce their carbon emissions, among other demands. These companies represent 77.5 percent of the food service management industry, or the business of running cafeterias and restaurants for hospitals, schools, stadiums, corporate headquarters, and other institutions.
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Open Markets senior fellow Lina Khan is profiled by David Streitfield for The New York Times. Khan talks about her work on antitrust, Amazon and how she went against a consensus in antitrust circles that dates back to the 1970s.
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Welcome to The Corner. In this issue, we look at how the Trump Administration is helping Big Tech, and highlight how Spotify and other music platforms hurt musicians - and listeners.
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Open Markets Institute Applauds Senator Cory Booker’s Food and Agribusiness Merger Moratorium and Antitrust Review Act of 2018.
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The Republican line on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh stresses his dispassion. A typical example comes from Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), who hails Kavanaugh as a judge who does “not rewrite the rules of the game” and “who call[s] balls and strikes.”
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Welcome to The Corner. In this issue, we argue that the Department of Justice should continue to prevent movie studios from buying theater chains. We also examine the potential harms of Facebook and other tech giants getting into the banking business, or simply into your bank account. And we look at why a lone dissent in an obscure FTC case is much more than it may first appear.
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The Open Markets Institute submitted three comments to the Federal Trade Commission for its upcoming "Hearings on Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century." Read those comments here.
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