Publications
EU tech policy fellow George Colville argues that the AI industry's growing energy demands are unfairly driving up electricity prices for ordinary Americans, with tech giants leveraging their power to shift the cost burden onto taxpayers and households instead of bearing it themselves.
Read MoreOpen Markets condemns the FTC’s filing a motion to withdraw from defending its landmark rule banning traditional and de facto non-competes.
Read MoreOpen Markets Europe Director Max von Thun released a statement in response to the European Commission’s decision to fine Google €3 billion for abusing its dominance in the adtech market and ordering the internet giant to end its illegal conduct.
Read MoreOpen Markets Institute Europe submitted more than 20 pages of recommendations to the European Commission as part of its consultation on updating the EU’s Horizontal and Non-Horizontal Merger Guidelines for the first time in nearly two decades.
Read MoreThe Open Markets Institute submitted a letter to the House Judiciary Committee calling on Congress to reject Big Tech’s fear-mongering campaign against European digital regulation and instead recognize how Europe’s approach strengthens free speech, competition, and democracy.
Read MoreBarry Lynn released the following statement following Judge Mehta’s failure to force Google to divest from Chrome and Android following his finding the company has maintained an illegal monopoly on search.
Read MoreOpen Markets Institute joined over 50 civil society groups in urging the European Commission to stand firm against U.S. interference in the EU’s digital rulemaking.
Read MoreReporter Austin Ahlman writes on Maine Senate candidate David Platner, who is positioning himself as part of a new wave of populists.
Read MoreThe Open Markets Institute and the Revolving Door Project released a comprehensive joint report on the policy underpinnings of the so-called “abundance agenda,” an economic agenda popularized by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson in their recent book Abundance.
Read MoreTransportation analyst Arnav Rao argues that Trump’s push to revive U.S. shipbuilding has more substance than his usual policy swings, since the industry is vital to national security and enjoys rare bipartisan support. Still, Rao notes that America’s shipyards remain plagued by delays, high costs, and dependence on foreign-built vessels — meaning any true revival would require a coordinated, large-scale effort reminiscent of the Liberty ship program of World War II.
Read MoreCheif economist Brian Callaci exclaims how that banning non-compete clauses is essential for protecting worker freedom, boosting the economy, and countering corporate coercion, even as federal support wavers
Read MoreIn this issue, we discuss President Trump’s “revocation” of President Biden’s Executive Order on Competition. And we describe how the fight to defend FTC’s 2024 ban on non-compete clauses has moved to the states.
Read MoreReporter Aushin Ahlman wrote on Iowa state House representative J.D. Scholten’s ending of his campaign to represent Iowa in the U.S. Senate, which “follows a push from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, or DSCC, to recruit and clear the field for fellow state House member Josh Turek.”
Read MoreSenior legal analyst Daniel Hanley is arguing that courts and enforcers must use structural remedies—like breakups and divestitures—against monopolists such as Google, emphasizing that history, law, and precedent require judges to impose sweeping reforms to restore competition and democratic accountability.
Read MoreThe Center for Journalism & Liberty at Open Markets, alongside Public Knowledge and Rebuild Local News, submitted a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division (DOJ) urging them to strengthen their initial proposed remedies to break Google’s monopoly over advertising technologies (ad tech), a digital market that intermediates ad sales mainly between news publishers and advertisers on the open web.
Read MoreLegal Director Sandeep Vaheesan asserts that while antitrust wins against Big Tech are a step forward, the real battle lies in dismantling their invasive surveillance advertising model, which exploits our privacy and fuels societal harms.
Read MoreThe Open Markets Institute filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court, urging the Court to address Merck’s alleged misrepresentations to the Food and Drug Administration to extend its monopoly in the mumps vaccine market.
Read MoreTransportation analyst Arnav Rao writes that Union Pacific’s proposed merger with Norfolk Southern would dangerously consolidate the U.S. freight rail industry—threatening service reliability, competition, and the nation’s economic resilience under the guise of efficiency.
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