Read our full amicus brief urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit to reverse the district court’s faulty decision in Sanofi’s lawsuit against pharmaceutical giant Mylan.
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Welcome to The Corner. In this issue, we discuss the dangers of health care monopolies — and how the VA hospital system can help to combat them.
Sandeep Vanheesan, legal director, and Claire Kelloway, senior reporter, write in the LPE Project about the insufficient portrayals of antimonopoly policy in the field of agriculture. Their article shines a light on the misrepresented economic statuses of farmers across the states.
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Phillip Longman, policy director at Open Markets Institute, presented testimony at the House Veterans' Affairs Committee Hearing on the Role of Infrastructure in Veterans’ Access to Care and Benefits.
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Open Markets’ policy director Phillip Longman testified before the House Veterans Affairs Committee detailing the vital role the 1,700 hospitals, clinics, and other health care facilities run by the Department of Veterans Affairs play in preserving competition in increasingly monopolized medical markets.
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Open Markets urges Biden Administration to block Amazon’s monopolistic ploy to take over MGM.
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Legal Director Sandeep Vaheesan writes about how the FTC can prohibit the harmful surveillance advertising business model used by Facebook, Google, and other platforms as an unfair method of competition, and force the corporations to develop benign methods of making money.
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Welcome to The Corner. In this issue we discuss the important lesson to be learned from AT&T’s failed acquisition of WarnerMedia: Mergers need more scrutiny.
Daniel Hanley of Open Markets Institute, writes about the vast regulatory powers to restructure markets and curb excessive concentrations of corporate power that U.S. state governments have.
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Executive Director Barry Lynn speaks at an OECD conference about how to structure international systems in a way that ensures stability and resilience.
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Washington Monthly runs Claire Kelloway’s piece from Food & Power about how tech giants are trying to create a monopoly middleman on grocery deliveries.
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Welcome to The Corner. In this issue, we discuss President Biden's address to Congress and his hints at transforming U.S. industrial policy and detail the Federal Trade Commission's newly released report on right to repair.
Daniel Hanley walks us through the FTC’s May 5, 2021 report to Congress on the Right to Repair.
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Daniel Hanley of Open Markets Institute writes about how a recent Supreme Court decision has starkly narrowed the FTC’s power to easily return stolen funds to consumers.
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Claire Kelloway, senior reporter and researcher, speaks on a podcast about how agricultural monopolies have resulted in overproduction, degraded ecosystems, public health crises, all-time-high farm debt, and narrower opportunities for new farmers.
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Sally Hubbard, director of enforcement strategy, discusses what current shifts in competition policy and enforcement could mean for the retail industry writ large.
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Welcome to The Corner. In this issue, we share highlights from the Open Markets Institute’s all-day conference on how to protect the free press and democracy from Google and Facebook, we highlight Dan Froomkin‘s Open Markets-funded expose of how Facebook funnels dark money to The New York Times, and we celebrate Open Markets fellow Beth Baltzan joining the Biden administration.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Rep. David Cicilline, and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison joined two dozen law enforcers, journalists, and analysts to address policy solutions in “After Google & Facebook: The Future of Journalism & Democracy.”
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