Financial Director Alexis Goldstein testified at the U.S. Congress’s Joint Economic Committee Hearing on “Demystifying Crypto: Digital Assets and the Role of Government.”
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Sandeep Vaheesan, legal director, argues that the Federal Trade Commission should use its expansive “unfair methods of competition” authority to codify and strengthen existing norms of fair competition under the Sherman Act.
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Jonathan Kanter’s confirmation signals that it’s time for Big Tech executives to figure out how to make a living by serving people, not picking pockets.
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Nikki Usher, Senior Fellow, Center for Journalism & Liberty, was quoted discussing her book, News for the Rich, White, and Blue.
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Senior legal analyst Daniel Hanley details how congressionally delegated powers can prohibit specific corporate conduct to require more publicly acceptable business practices.
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Open Markets’ concentration data on hearing aids was cited in a piece about Tim Wu’s speech on the Biden administration’s move to prioritize promoting competition and fighting monopoly power.
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Financial policy director Alexis Goldstein warns that further consolidation of financial exchanges could shrink market competition and harm consumers.
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Better Markets and the Open Markets Institute raise serious concerns about lack of competition in derivatives markets.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Senior reporter and researcher Claire Kelloway’s work was profiled in a video and story about the concentrated chicken industry’s worker safety problem.
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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.
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Johnny Ryan, Open Markets adviser, is mentioned for his work on sustainable publishing and tracking-based advertising.
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Luke Goldstein, reporter and researcher, writes about how billionaire tycoons are seizing control over America’s public satellite systems.
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Chief economist Brian Callaci’s testimony about noncompetes was mentioned in a piece about how monopolies harm workers.
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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.
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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.
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