Open Markets celebrates the Financial Services Committee’s passage of a package of bills aimed at bringing new, much-needed transparency to family offices.
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Read our fact sheet on family-controlled investment funds - widely known as “family offices” - and the loophole that allows them to control so much of our financial markets without any regulatory oversight.
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Senior legal analyst Daniel Hanley writes in Common Dreams about Amazon’s latest ploy to release an Alexa-enabled tracking device for children—and the corporations larger crusade to monopolize markets and surveil consumer and third-party merchants.
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The Open Markets Institute applauds the Biden administration’s nomination of Jonathan Kanter to run the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice.
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Policy analyst Daniel Hanley demonstrates how federal antitrust enforcers could use compulsory licensing to help bolster and speed up other anti-monopoly efforts, especially when it comes to tech giant Google.
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In this issue, we take a closer look at the White House’s executive order on competition, Amazon’s far-reaching surveillance practices, building resilient food supply chains, and the systemic risks of cryptocurrency.
Check out our “Eyes Everywhere” two-part report series illustrating the dangers of Amazon’s worker surveillance, Amazon’s competitor and consumer surveillance, and the solutions available here→
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Sandeep Vaheesan testified against carving out additional workers from D.C.’s “Non-Compete Conflict of Interest Clarification Amendment Act of 2021” and to instead amend the law to extend its protection to all workers in the District.
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New report enumerates a plethora of predatory, exclusionary, and unfair practices that Amazon implements to surveil its competitors and consumers.
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Open Markets Institute releases a sequel report on Amazon’s surveillance—This time documenting the scale and scope of Amazon’s consumer and competitor surveillance operations, their adverse impacts, and how to make Amazon stop.
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Garphil Julien highlights how the killing of President Jovenal Moïse took place against a backdrop of elite power, anti-competitive policies, and the U.S. failing to create open markets.
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The Open Markets Institute releases a statement celebrating a White House executive order on competition policy aimed at breaking the power of monopolists and calling for a multitude of actions that Open Markets pioneered over the years.
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Policy analyst Daniel Hanley details ways U.S. law can be leveraged to ban exclusive dealing by dominant firms.
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Illinois professor Nikki Usher imagines an approach to local journalism—one built on authentic, viewpoint-driven reporting upheld by readers invested in the community. Read reviews and reactions.
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This report discusses how the USDA must improve regulation of agriculture markets to ensure fair competition and to counterbalance predatory corporate consolidation through statutes such as the Packers and Stockyards Act.
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Open Markets Institute published, “Building Food Systems Resiliency Through Different Business Scales and Forms,” a report, originally submitted in response to a USDA request for comments, discussing how to improve regulation of agriculture markets to ensure fair competition and to counterbalance predatory corporate consolidation.
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Welcome to The Corner. In this issue, we discuss CJL Fellow Nikki Usher’s upcoming book, Barry Lynn’s newest publication in Foreign Affairs, the consequences and potential impact of the Supreme Court’s decision on student-athlete compensation, and congressional legislation aimed at reining in Big Tech.