Publications
Welcome to The Corner. In this issue we point out the shortcomings of Apple CEO Tim Cook’s big plan to promote privacy and highlight one Republican congressman’s ambitious plan to counter hospitals’ monopoly power. We also share two feature articles by Open Markets in the new Washington Monthly on how fighting monopoly can help Democrats win the Senate, and on the secret anti-monopoly powers of the FTC.
Read MoreGizmodo's Kashmir Hill published a series about giving up the 'Big Five' tech platforms. In this piece she looks into the challenge of giving up Facebook and take us on her journey. She talks to Open Markets Deputy Director Sarah Miller about Facebook's power and her work in the coalition, Freedom From Facebook.
Read MoreLegal Director Sandeep Vaheesan is quoted in The Intercept by David Dayen arguing that opinions about alcohol market regulation are besides the point; in plain fact, states have been empowered with oversight over alcohol.
Read MoreThe Wall Street Journal reports that Open Markets Institute is part of a coalition calling on the Federal Trade Commission to break up Facebook.
Read MoreOpen Markets believes that reestablishing the right of workers, consumers, and business to litigate cases on a collective basis is essential for taming the excesses of concentrated corporate power.
Read MoreOpen Markets Institute sent a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler with recommendations on how to approach the problem of monopoly this Congressional session.
Read MoreOpen Markets Institute sent a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler with recommendations on how to approach the problem of monopoly this Congressional session.
Read MoreOpen Markets Offers Commentary on Democrats’ Rural Gap and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) as ‘Progressives’ Secret Weapon’
Read MoreIn Claire Kelloway’s article “How to Close the Democrats’ Rural Gap” in the January/February issue of The Washington Monthly, she argues that antitrust needs to be part of this solution. She writes, “the biggest cause of growing regional inequality isn’t technology; it’s changes in public policy, embraced by both parties, that have enabled predatory monopolies to strip wealth away from farmers and rural communities and transfer it to America’s snazziest zip codes.”
Read MoreA century ago, reformers gave the Federal Trade Commission extraordinary powers to take on abusive corporations. It’s time to wake the agency up.
Today, the Open Markets Institute joined five law professors and one public interest group in a letter to the National Labor Relations Board criticizing a proposed rule that would make it harder for workers to organize and collectively bargain with franchise businesses.
Read MoreA city that thrives on the energy of its neighborhood merchants should not offer incentives and giveaways to an internet giant known for squashing small businesses.
Read MoreGoogle’s and Facebook’s ever-tightening control over online advertising spending in the United States continues to make it harder for magazine publishers to keep their businesses alive. But publishers’ jobs may soon get even more difficult if the Department of Justice fails to block printer Quad/Graphics’ $1.4 billion bid to buy its only major competitor in the business of printing physical magazines, LSC Communications.
Read MoreWelcome to The Corner. In this issue, we offer a preview of what’s to come with the new Democratic House majority. And we reveal the merger to monopoly that could put control of every national print magazine in one corporation.
Read MoreThe Open Markets Institute submitted a comment to the Federal Trade Commission to underscore the need for new agency guidelines on vertical mergers and explain that the Department of Justice’s 1968 Merger Guidelines are a template on which the agencies should build.
Read MoreEven Tucker Carlson and Goldman Sachs are talking about the pernicious impact of monopolies in the U.S.
Read MoreHappy Holidays from The Corner. In this special edition, we recommend the best anti-monopoly books from the past year, share a few articles that illuminate ways monopoly can ruin your holidays, and nominate a new Brookings report for our new WWW award, for Worst Washington White Paper of the year. Also, we celebrate OMI Editorial Director Phillip Longman's debut as a television cartoon character, in a new episode of “Adam Ruins Everything.”
Read MoreWelcome to The Corner. In this issue we look at what The New York Times missed in its otherwise excellent recent story on location tracking by Google, Facebook, and app developers. We also put the UK Parliament's release of the Six4Three documents in the context of rising anger around the world with Facebook’s abuses of power.
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