Open Markets Institute responds to the Biden administration’s directive for a 100-day review of the country’s supply chain.
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Welcome to The Corner. In this issue, we discuss President Biden’s executive orders addressing the resiliency of U.S. supply chains and the spinning off of Maryland newspapers to the Sunlight for All Institute.
Sandeep Vaheesan of Open Markets Institute writes in The Atlantic with Robert H. Lande of University of Baltimore School of Law about how a simple ban on all mega-mergers would stop the U.S. government from rubber-stamping corporate consolidation.
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Program manager for food and agriculture systems, Claire Kelloway, discusses why the meat industry is bad for farmers, workers, consumers, animals, and the environment.
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Sandeep Vaheesan of Open Markets Institute, speaks at a Penn Law Students for Democratic Society lecture series on disrupting contract law.
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Welcome to The Corner. In this issue, we discuss how efforts by the European Union to regulate Big Tech are failing, Senator Klobuchar’s newly proposed antitrust law, and how a new bill amending Section 230 strikes a careful balance in the regulation of online speech.
Barry Lynn, Open Markets Institute, Executive Director writes about an Irish Council for Civil Liberties report arguing that it proves the EU is moving too slowly against Big Tech.
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Sandeep Vaheesan, legal director at the Open Markets Institute, writes in Bloomberg Law that President Joe Biden has the chance to make good on his past statements condemning the use of noncompete clauses for American workers by making good appointments to the Federal Trade Commission.
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Senior reporter & researcher, Claire Kelloway, guest features on a podcast to discuss California’s Proposition 22 ballot initiative and Big Tech at large.
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Welcome to The Corner. In this issue, we discuss a letter sent to the DOJ to block Bertelsmann's roll up of the book market and whether Rebecca Slaughter makes the FTC an anti-monopoly powerhouse.
The Open Markets Institute, the Authors Guild, and six other writers associations representing thousands of book authors call on the Justice Department to move immediately to block the private conglomerate, Bertelsmann, from buying the book publisher, Simon & Schuster.
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The Open Markets Institute and a diverse set of environmental, family farm, farm policy and rural community organizations sent a letter to the White House requesting an executive order to enact a moratorium on mergers and acquisitions in the food and agricultural industries.
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Daniel Hanley, policy analyst at the Open Markets Institute, and Beth Brodsky, former Louis Brandeis Law and Political Economy Fellow at the Open Markets Institute, write in Common Dreams showing that the FCC’s push to restructure America’s broadcast communication ownership would be a crushing blow to the already deficient levels of female and minority ownership in the broadcast industry.
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St. Martin's Press brings together recently published authors Zephyr Teachout and Barry Lynn to discuss what we can do to fight monopolies in 2021.
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Barry C. Lynn responds to Zach Carter’s review on Liberty From All Masters’.
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Open Markets Institute asserts that Google’s threat to stop providing search services to the people of Australia, and Facebook’s threat to block Australians from sharing links to news proves the platforms pose a fundamental threat to the world’s democracies.
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