Amazon pulled out of its deal to build a corporate campus in New York City amid bad press, grassroots activists and local opposition lawmakers calling out the bad deal. Matt Stoller writes on The Guardian that Simply saying ‘no’ to its headquarters isn’t enough – Amazon should be investigated for abusing monopoly power.
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The Guardian's Alex Hern interviews Open Markets Institute advisory board member Roger McNamee on his new book, 'Zucked: Waking up to the Facebook Catastrophe' and his reflections from his time with Mark Zuckerberg and on the dangers of the Big Tech industry today.
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If you care about reducing pesticide use, promoting agricultural biodiversity, and supporting small farmers, then you should also care about who’s amassing agricultural data. That’s the message of a new report from a group of sustainable food policy experts, out last week. The International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems spent three years putting together a comprehensive food policy platform outlining how the European Union can build a more equitable and sustainable food system. Among dozens of proposals, the report called on EU regulators to “block agribusiness mergers leading to over-consolidation of farm data” as a way to promote more resilient and ecological food production.
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Amid news that Amazon pulled out of building its corporate campus in New York City thanks to bad press and the work of grassroots activists and local opposition lawmakers calling out the bad deal, Open Markets board member Zephyr Teachout writes on NBC News that people are fed up with big corporations bullying their employees and our elected officials. They're going to keep fighting back.
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Open Markets Institute applauds the citizens, grass roots organizers, and local lawmakers who rejected the bad deal struck with Amazon last November by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.
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Open Markets Institute board member Zephyr Teachout published an op-ed on NBC News saying that people are fed up with big corporations bullying their employees and our elected officials. They're going to keep fighting back. She calls on Congress to examine Amazon's monopolistic actions.
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In this issue, we map the new, deep divide on anti-monopoly philosophy at the FTC. And we explain why new calls to increase taxes on billionaires are part of an American anti-monopoly tradition that traces to Franklin, Jefferson, and Adams.
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The Open Markets Institute calls for the Federal Trade Commission and European enforcers to block Spotify's acquisition deals.
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How one of Mark Zuckerberg’s mentors helped billionaire philanthropist George Soros write the Davos speech at the center of another Facebook controversy. Open Markets Institute advisory board member Roger McNamee reflects on Facebook on Fast Company.
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Should we break up Amazon and Facebook? Columbia Law School academic and Open Markets senior fellow Lina Khan, who wrote the impactful “Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox” for The Yale Law Journal, joins Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel to discuss whether Amazon and Facebook should be broken up and what it might look like if that were to happen.
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The Guardian's David Smith reports on how the left and the right are united in the pursuit of greater accountability and transparency from Silicon Valley’s power players. He talks to Open Markets fellow Matt Stoller about how big tech is bringing together conservatives’ anti-monopoly streak with progressives’ suspicion of big business and wealth inequality.
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Open Markets Institute today welcomed a new Fellow to our team, Beth Baltzan. In her position as a Fellow, Beth will focus on the impact of monopoly power on trade and its consequences for national security.
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Open Markets Institute strongly condemns the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) decision to approve the merger of office supply giant Staples and the wholesale office supply distributor Essendant.
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Open Markets fellow Austin Frerick writes on Forbes magazine that when policymakers talk about “green jobs,” they tend to default to examples in solar power, wind and other sources of renewable energy—or perhaps manufacturing and supply chain management. They’re less likely to talk about agriculture.
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Open Markets Institute calls on Congress and the Federal Trade Commission to immediately investigate how to protect America’s independent news media from the power and predatory business models of Google and Facebook.
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The Democratic Party’s loyalty to plutocrats led to political disaster. But many of its leaders won’t change their ways.
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