Publications
Open Markets senior fellow Matt Stoller talks to Business Insider's Linette Lopez about the latest round of hearings by the House Antitrust Subcommittee. Lopez highlights that for the first time in a generation, Washington is questioning what it means to protect American Capitalism. "There's an increasingly powerful bipartisan view of anti-trust," Stoller told her.
Read MorePOLITICO’s Nancy Scola profiles Open Markets Institute in an exclusive feature. She tells the story of how Open Markets has “spent years urging Washington to crack down on the United States’ biggest tech companies.”
Read MoreBloomberg's Joshua Brustein profiles Rep. David Cicilline, Chairman of the House Antitrust Subcommittee, and speaks to Open Markets Deputy Director Sarah Miller about the official congressional antitrust inquiry scrutinizing big tech corporations and how it "provides a channel for uncovering so much material" that makes clear antitrust enforcement is necessary.
Read MoreThe Open Markets Institute applauds the House Armed Services Committee, Congressman Ro Khanna, and Congresswoman Jackie Speier, for passing amendments to crack down on defense contractor monopolists, as part of debate over the National Defense Authorization Act.
Read MoreWelcome to The Corner. In this issue, we focus on Congress’s plan to investigate platform monopolists and highlight a new study that details how mergers can lead to sharp cuts in product variety.
Read MoreThe Open Markets Institute is encouraged by the recent speech in Israel by Makan Delrahim, Assistant Attorney General (AAG) for Antitrust.
Read MoreCBS News covers the House Judiciary Committee antitrust investigation scrutinizing Big Tech’s impact on the free press.
Read More“This is another example of state enforcers standing up for the public interest when federal regulators fail to do so,” Open Markets Executive Director Barry Lynn said.
Read MoreOpen Markets Director of Enforcement Strategy Sally Hubbard testified before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law.
Read MoreOpen Markets Director of Enforcement Strategy Sally Hubbard testified before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law on June 11, 2019.
Read MoreAxios reporter Sam Baker publishes an exclusive report on Open Markets' second volume of concentration data looking at consolidation in healthcare-related industry sectors. “America’s health care crisis is brought you by monopoly,” Open Markets policy director Phil Longman told Axios.
Read MoreThe Open Markets Institute released Volume II of America’s Concentration Crisis, which presents exclusive data on market concentration in the healthcare industry sourced from IBISWorld.
Read MoreThe Open Markets Institute today issued a statement opposing Raytheon’s acquisition of United Technologies.
Read MoreThe Verge's Adi Robertson interviews Open Markets senior fellow Matt Stoller about how Google could be vulnerable to a U.S. Department of Justice probe. “The fact that Google is able to dominate the advertising market is quite dangerous,” says Matt Stoller.
Read MoreTIME reporter Alana Abramson reports that House lawmakers are kicking off their antitrust investigations of technology companies by focusing on an industry crippled by the rise of big tech: local journalism. She reports that Open Markets Institute Director of Enforcement Strategy Sally Hubbard will testify at the first hearing along with Gene Kimmelman, the president of Public Knowledge, and David Chavern, the president of News Media Alliance, which represents 2,000 newspapers across the U.S. and Canada.
Read MoreLast week, several senators called on the USDA to stop giving federal trade-related farm aid to foreign-owned corporations, particularly Brazil’s JBS, the largest meatpacker in the world. This follows a bill by Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., that would require USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service to only purchase foods from American companies, when available. Read the latest story by Open Markets Food & Power reporter Claire Kelloway on how the debate around foreign corporations receiving federal contracts misses the larger question of whether or not these contracts will trickle down to farmers at all.
Read MoreDeutsche Welle interviews Open Markets Deputy Director Sarah Miller about the shift in attitude by American lawmakers to Silicon Valley and how big tech is now on Washington's crosshairs. "These corporations were really the darlings of American commerce, and it's hard to believe, as someone who has been working on these issues for three or four years, how quickly that has changed, not just among progressives, but also among conservatives here in the US," she said.
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