Joint Letter - Regulators Should Review Harms of CME Group Inc.’s Potential Merger with Cboe and Conduct Study on Existing Concentration Problems

Better Markets and the Open Markets Institute raise serious concerns about lack of competition in derivatives markets.

Open Markets Files Comment Letter with Department of Commerce Urging Action to Address ICT Supply Chain Concentration

Letter details how monopolization of key parts of the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) industry is causing political and economic harm, and what the Biden administration can do about it.

StatementsOpen MarketsNovember 8, 20212021, Secondary Feature, November 2021, International Systems, Garphil Julien

The Corner Newsletter: November 5, 2021

In this issue, we take a closer look at the DOJ’s move to block Penguin Random House’s proposed takeover of Simon & Schuster, and how surveillance advertising has harmed user privacy.

NewslettersOpen MarketsNovember 5, 20212021, November 2021, Karina Montoya, Mergers & Acquisitions, Antitrust Law

Legislation Aims to Stop Big Tech Platforms From Making Acquisitions That Grow Their Market Power and Kill Competitive Threats

Open Markets applauds Senator Klobuchar for developing bipartisan legislation that aims to prevent platform monopolists from cementing and augmenting their already dangerous levels of power.

Vox - The Chicken Industry’s Worker Safety Problem

Senior reporter and researcher Claire Kelloway’s work was profiled in a video and story about the concentrated chicken industry’s worker safety problem.

Clippings, Videos & AudioClaire KellowayNovember 5, 20212021, November 2021, Claire Kelloway, Food & Agriculture, Labor

Beyond Surveillance Advertising: Insights From Media Scholar Matthew Crain

Center for Journalism & Liberty reporter Karina Montoya frames insights from a new author, focusing on the challenges of data harvested by Google, Facebook and Apple, and harms to the news industry.

Private Internet ACCESS - “Complexity is Fraud”: Why We Must Drop Micro-Targeted Ads to Help Publishers and to Protect Online Privacy

Johnny Ryan, Open Markets adviser, is mentioned for his work on sustainable publishing and tracking-based advertising.

ClippingsOpen MarketsNovember 4, 20212021, November 2021, Johnny Ryan, Privacy

Washington Monthly - Why Are We Letting Monopolists Corner Space?

Luke Goldstein, reporter and researcher, writes about how billionaire tycoons are seizing control over America’s public satellite systems.

Op-EdsLuke GoldsteinNovember 4, 2021Secondary Feature, November 2021, 2021, Center for Journalism & Liberty

Public Citizen - The Harms of Monopolies on American Workers

Chief economist Brian Callaci’s testimony about noncompetes was mentioned in a piece about how monopolies harm workers.

ClippingsBrian CallaciNovember 2, 20212021, November 2021, Brian Callaci, Labor, Antitrust Law

Bloomberg - Gig-Economy Rise Prompts FTC Chief’s Call to Alter Antitrust Law

Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan comments on the power that states have to help push forward antitrust lawsuits to grant collective bargaining rights to misclassified or improperly classified workers.

ClippingsSandeep VaheesanNovember 2, 20212021, November 2021, Sandeep Vaheesan, Antitrust Law, Labor, FTC

The American Prospect - What’s Causing the Weird Inflation?

Executive director Barry Lynn’s observations about how containerized ships off-loading at ports overwhelms supply chains were cited in a piece about what Biden can do to help minimize inflation.

ClippingsBarry LynnNovember 2, 20212021, November 2021, Barry Lynn, Transportation, International Systems

DOJ Blocks Bertelsmann Merger with Simon & Schuster in Win for Authors, Readers, Editors, and Publishers

Open Markets celebrates the Department of Justice’s vote to file a civil antitrust lawsuit to block the proposed merger between Penguin Random House, a subsidiary of Bertelsmann, and Simon & Schuster.

LPE Project - Fair Competition Policy without a Fair Competition Philosophy

Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan describes the important difference between promoting fair competition versus just promoting competition.

Following Release of Stablecoins Report, Open Markets Urges Regulators to Use Existing Tools to Protect Investors and Mitigate Systemic Risks

Addressing threats to fair competition, and investors and consumers should come before facilitating the growth of private money.

Press ReleasesOpen MarketsNovember 1, 20212021, November 2021, Primary Feature

FTC Begins New Era by Restoring Common Sense Rules to Block Bad Deals

26 years later, the FTC reinstates the “Prior Approval Policy” taking back the power to restrict anticompetitive mergers.

The Nikkei - The Limits of Trustbusting Litigation

Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan writes in the Japanese news outlet, The Nikkei, about the limits of competition policy and law as it currently stands, and how to improve it.

Retail Dive - Why acquisitions lead DTC exits

Director of Enforcement Strategy Sally Hubbard discusses the relationship between acquisitions and market concentration.

ClippingsOpen MarketsOctober 25, 20212021, Mergers & Acquisitions, October 2021

The Corner Newsletter: October 22, 2021

Welcome to The Corner. In this issue, we discuss Zillow’s aggressive strategy to expand its reach in the real estate market — and how its recent acquisition is facing heightened scrutiny from the FTC.

NewslettersOpen MarketsOctober 22, 20212021, October 2021

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