Publications
Sally Hubbard spoke to The Washington Post about how it’s important for CEOs from the biggest tech firms to testify before Congress amid the big tech probe taking place by the House Antitrust Subcommittee. "I think it's important for the CEOs to appear in a public hearing to make clear they are accountable to our democratically-elected representatives and to the American public," she said.
Read MoreClaire Kelloway reports that the USDA thwarted a decade of efforts to help farmers seek justice for discrimination, retaliation, and unfair treatment by meatpackers. Trump’s USDA introduced new criteria to determine whether a meatpacker violated the Packers and Stockyards Act. This latest proposal omits several critical farmer protections from the previous rule and introduces new language that could codify abusive industry practices.
Read MoreOpen Markets Director of Enforcement Strategy Sally Hubbard spoke to The Washington Post about why smaller technology companies have not been more outspoken regarding the anti-competitive practices of larger technology companies ahead of a House Antitrust Subcommittee field hearing taking place in Colorado where smaller tech firm leaders will have an opportunity to testify. “We don’t often hear from those entrepreneurs because they can't afford to speak out, we haven’t had a look under the hood of these companies,” Hubbard said.
Read MoreThe Open Markets Institute is proud to announce the addition of two new members to its board of directors, Christy Hoffman and Laura Quinn, who will help lead the organization in the fight to protect democracy in America and around the world from dangerous concentrations of power and control.
Read MoreAssociated Press Reporter Marcy Gordon sits down and interviews Open Markets Director of Enforcement Strategy Sally Hubbard about her take on the need for greater antitrust enforcement. With the biggest tech companies under government investigation for alleged anti-competitive conduct, her analysis speaks to an issue of growing urgency.
Read MoreProspect: Last month, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) took a well-deserved victory lap after Amazon announced it would be opening new corporate offices in New York City, months after it pulled out of opening a second headquarters in the area.
Read MoreK. Sabeel Rahman, the president of Demos, joined Open Markets Institute researcher Udit Thakur to talk about the pitfalls of managerialism in policy-making, and what a truly democratic think-tank ecosystem might look like.
Read MoreThe Open Markets Institute is very proud to announce the creation of a new, 12-member academic advisory board to help guide and advise Open Markets’ research and policy work.
Read MoreThe New York Times' Jack Nicas and Daisuke Wakabayashi report that home-speaker maker Sonos said Google and Amazon stole its technology and abused their power, but it could only risk suing one. "The fear of retaliation is a real fear. Any of these companies could bury them tomorrow. Google could bury them in their search results. Amazon can bury them in their search results,” Sally Hubbard told them.
Read MoreVoice of America’s Michelle Quinn reports that the “era of Silicon Valley’s operating largely free from government may be coming to an end.”
Read MoreThe New York Times' Steve Lohr, who has covered the tech industry for more than two decades, explains how we may be entering a progressive era of antitrust. He speaks with Open Markets Executive Director Barry Lynn on the changing political landscape. “The environment is radically different than it was even a year or two ago,” Lynn told him. “It’s a grass-roots rebellion against concentrated power.”
Read MoreA reporter who has covered the tech industry for more than two decades explains how we may be entering a progressive era of antitrust.
Read MoreIn response to a report by The New York Times that U.S. Department of Justice Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust Makan Delrahim substantively helped T-Mobile and Sprint merge, Open Markets Director of Enforcement Strategy Sally Hubbard makes the following statement.
Read MoreThe Open Markets Institute Team wishes you a happy holiday season! We know a lot of you will be taking advantage of these quiet cold days to catch up on your reading. Obviously, we hope this will include some time with Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy. Our team is proud to have supported this important new history of how Americans debated economics in the 20th Century. But many other works also inspired us over the last year, and we hope you’ll have the time to read a few of them.
Read MoreOpen Markets Institute filed an amicus brief in support of theFederal Trade Commission in its case against Impax Laboratories. In our brief, we argue that pay-for-delay agreements are a form of per se illegal, horizontal market allocation agreements that seek to prohibit market entry and thus harm market competition.
Read MoreWelcome to The Corner. In this issue, we discuss Impax Laboratories v. FTC and our latest amicus brief that we submitted in support of the FTC. We hope that all our readers have a happy and safe holiday. The Corner will return on January 9.
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