Read the Open Markets Institute's public comments to the Department of Justice's Antitrust Division for the agency's roundtable on anticompetitive regulations.
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In this issue of The Corner, we explain Open Market's new campaign to address the various threats Facebook poses to American society and democracy. We then detail how Warren Buffett's dominant position in making and selling mobile homes will benefit from the newly-passed bank deregulation bill, look at how powerful retailers like Walmart drive down wages at their suppliers, and track the building support for OMI's recent "single-price" health care proposal. Finally, we invite you to OMI's upcoming conference on the intersection of news, tech monopoly, and democracy.
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Open Markets Institute submitted a comment letter to to the Antitrust Division Roundtable Examining the “Consumer Costs of Anticompetitive Regulations”.
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In the Yale Law Journal Forum, Sandeep Vaheesan writes about challenging the empirically deficient economism that has had an extraordinary influence on antitrust law over the past forty years.
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Lina Khan was quoted in Vox's piece on Trump vs. Bezos.
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Today the Supreme Court tilted the competitive playing field away from honest businesses and towards abusive ones.
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Lina Khan explains how Amazon, a company famous for low prices, can still behave in an anticompetitive manner.
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In this issue, we examine how platform monopolies are trying to use trade policy to escape responsibility for the content posted on their sites. We also look at the cornering of the police body camera market and at the airline industry's plans to engage in price discrimination based on your social media profile.
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We write to express concern about H.R. 5645—Standard Merger and Acquisition Reviews Through Equal Rules Act of 2018. After close review, the Open Markets Institute has concluded that the bill would dangerously reduce the Federal Trade Commission’s ability to protect American citizens from concentrations of power that threaten them politically and economically. Worse, it would do so exactly at a moment when we need a stronger and more active FTC. A broad, bi-partisan consensus acknowledges that America has a big monopoly problem.
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Kevin Carty was quoted in Financial Times, speaking about Facebook’s social dominance and there ‘head start’ over any other entrant into the [dating] market.
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David Leonhardt recommended Lina Khan’s Yale Law Review Article, 2017 Times op-ed, and OMI’s letter on Amazon’s business practices in his article.
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"Amazon has used the digital revolution in book publishing to exercise control over the marketplace of ideas in ways that threaten not merely open markets but free speech."
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In this issue of The Corner, we explore the coming clash between the FTC and Facebook, look at the ways that House Democrats are changing their party's understanding of labor markets and power, and highlight how antitrust regulators are rethinking when and how to use consent decrees.
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