Open Markets submitted a letter welcoming the UK's draft Strategic Steer to the CMA, emphasizing alignment with broader policy goals while maintaining the regulator's independence.
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Open Markets submitted a comment to the FTC calling for termination of a 2012 Coopharma consent order and urging the agency to endorse an exemption for employees, contractors and small firms that challenge concentrations of power.
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Open Markets submits comment on USDA's proposal to define unfair practices under the Packers & Stockyards Act.
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Open Markets Institute Europe Director Max von Thun gave oral evidence in the UK Parliament on the UK’s Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill.
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The Open Markets Institute writes a letter on how Canada could strengthen its antimonopoly laws, including on merger review, exclusive dealing and other forms of unfair competition and vertical restraints.
The Open Markets Institute, Irish Council for Civil Liberties, and the Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue, a forum of 75 NGOs, have sent the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) a joint submission on the privacy, market, and security hazards of surveillance advertising, urging the agency to act against commercial surveillance and to define “Real-Time Bidding” (RTB) as an unfair and deceptive practice.
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Open Markets Executive Director Barry Lynn testifies before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Competition Policy, Antitrust, and Consumer Rights
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Open Markets Executive Director Barry Lynn Testifies Before House Judiciary on How Extreme and Growing Market Concentration Chokes Supply Chains and Worsens Inflation
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Lynn details how traditional anti-monopoly law and policy helped allow independent business to exist in this country—and how to address the crisis caused by its demise.
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Financial Policy Director Alexis Goldstein testified at the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs’ hearing on “Stablecoins: How Do They Work, How Are They Used, and What Are Their Risks?”
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Open Markets spearheads a coalition letter to FSOC urging them to bring AWS under the supervision of the Federal Reserve as a utility.
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The Justice Department, Federal Trade Commission, and Financial Regulators should examine and mitigate the risks the pilot presents.
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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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Better Markets and the Open Markets Institute raise serious concerns about lack of competition in derivatives markets.
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Open Markets Chief Economist Brian Callaci testified at Part 4 of the Senate Judiciary hearings on Reviving Competition: 21st Century Antitrust Reforms and the American Worker.
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Full testimony from Open Markets Institute Financial Policy Director Alexis Goldstein at the House financial services oversight subcommittee hearing, “America on “FIRE”: Will the Crypto Frenzy Lead to Financial Independence and Early Retirement or Financial Ruin?”
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Open Markets Institute sent a letter to lawmakers applauding the introduction of a suite of bipartisan bills aiming to combat the harms that Big Tech monopolies cause to all Americans, innovation, and the marketplace of ideas.
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Barry Lynn urges Congress to take swift, bright-line action to protect our democracy from private corporate power.
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Open Markets Institute’s legal director, Sandeep Vaheesan, submits written testimony lauding Connecticut’s SB 906 – An Act Concerning Non-Compete Agreements and encouraging the state to strengthen its action against non-competes by enacting a full ban.
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The Open Markets Institute sent two letters signed by more than 100 organizations and scholars to President-elect Joe Biden urging him to appoint FTC commissioners committed to outlawing noncompete clauses and exclusionary contracting.
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On April 17th, Open Markets submitted a letter to the House Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law on promoting fair competition in the market place. The letter details illegal monopolization by digital platforms and recommends reforms aimed at opening the gates of fair competition to new innovators, restoring dynamism to the economy, decrease market concentration, and ensuring basic rule of law for all sellers and buyers.
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Read the remarks of Open Markets Executive Director Barry Lynn at the FTC's Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century hearings.
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Open Markets Institute Senior Fellow Lina Khan testified at the Federal Trade Commission’s Third Hearing in its “Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century” series at the George Mason University.
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Open Markets Institute Legal Director Sandeep Vaheesan testified at the Federal Trade Commission’s Second Hearing in its “Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century” series at the Constitution Center.
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Open Markets, EPIC, and other civil society groups express strong support for EU Competition Commissioner's decision to fine Google for abusing the dominance of its Android mobile operating systems.
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Representatives Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and David Cicilline (D-RI) quoted Open Markets when they spoke out on the floor of the House of Representatives on Wednesday, May 9, 2018 against H.R. 5645, the Standard Merger and Acquisition Review Through Equal Rules Act of 2018.
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