At the root of rural America’s angst are small towns whose economies have been taken over by a handful of predatory multinationals.
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Open Markets joined public interest, consumer, and labor groups in sending a letter to leaders in the House calling for hearings on the pending merger between T-Mobile and Sprint.
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Open Markets Fellow Austin Frerick discusses the newly-released concentration crisis data with The Intercept.
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Due to extreme concentrations of wealth and political power, our country is experiencing severe economic inequality, stagnant household income, the collapse of business formation and innovation, and historic levels of political polarization. This report shows that such concentration is not unique to one or two economic sectors. It is persistent across a diverse range of industries.
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Matthew Buck , reporter-researcher for the Open Markets Institute, writes in The Washington Monthly about the monopolization of America’s railroads.
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Washington DC - Last Thursday, The Economist published a special report calling attention to the dangerous levels of market concentration in the U.S. economy and taking antitrust authorities to task for their inaction.
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Open Markets filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court in support of the petitioner in Tennessee Wine and Spirits Retailers Association v. Byrd asserting that the Supreme Court should restore the states’ full regulatory authority, under the Constitution, over alcohol production and distribution.
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Since the 1970s, the US has seen a growing power imbalance between workers and employers. This story was not inevitable, but the product of conscious legal and political choices.
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Open Markets Senior Fellow Lina Khan talks to Anand Ghiridhardas at The New Yorker about Amazon and how it has gained leverage in its search for a new city for its new headquarters.
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Open Markets' Matt Stoller tells Nicholas Confessore and Matthew Rosenberg of The New York Times that the exposes on the tech giants, Facebook and Google, have led to a serious loss of credibility in the companies and a "serious policy problem" for the Democrats.
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Welcome to The Corner. In this issue, we condemn Amazon's HQ2 decision, and call on Congress to reopen an Office of Technology Assessment. And we look at who might chair some key committees in the next House of Representatives.
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The government tamed AT&T into behaving like a utility. It’s time to stop letting Facebook run wild.
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On September 28, 2018, Facebook, Inc. announced that 50 million users had been compromised in a massive data breach that put their entire accounts in the hands of unknown rogue actors. An additional 40 million users also had their accounts reset due to uncertainty about the scope of the breach.
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Open Markets' Deputy Director Sarah Miller tells The New Yorker's Evan Osnos that “Congress and the Federal Trade Commission should come to terms with the fact that Facebook will never change, unless they force it to—and they should, without delay, to protect our democracy.”
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For the last year, public officials across America and Canada have held an embarrassing beauty contest to entice Amazon to place its so-called “second headquarters” in their region.
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After a long public drama, the corporation announces there is no real HQ2.
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Today, The New York Times published an opinion piece by Ron Kim and Zephyr Teachout, which rebukes Amazon’s potential move to Long Island, NY.
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