Publications
In this issue of The Corner, we report on the fast-building pressure on the FTC to address Facebook's abuse and misuse of its power, and we share some more details from our new report, "America's Concentration Crisis." We also announce two opportunities for reporters and future lawyers to work with Open Markets.
Read MoreIn this post, we cover the basics of licensing, and then reframe current attacks on it.
Read MoreMonopoly power is all around us: as consumers, business owners, employees, entrepreneurs, and citizens. When we purchase everything from washing machines to groceries, website domains to medical supplies, and even when we select a coffin for a recently deceased loved one, we are constrained by the small set of actors who increasingly control America’s commerce.
Read MoreOpen Markets Institute, Public Knowledge and twelve other signatories have sent a comment letter to the House Judiciary Committee and Committee on Energy and Commerce urging the House of Representatives to hold a hearing on the likely effects of the proposed Sprint, T-Mobile merger.
Read MoreAt the root of rural America’s angst are small towns whose economies have been taken over by a handful of predatory multinationals.
Read MoreOpen Markets joined public interest, consumer, and labor groups in sending a letter to leaders in the House calling for hearings on the pending merger between T-Mobile and Sprint.
Read MoreOpen Markets Fellow Austin Frerick discusses the newly-released concentration crisis data with The Intercept.
Read MoreDue to extreme concentrations of wealth and political power, our country is experiencing severe economic inequality, stagnant household income, the collapse of business formation and innovation, and historic levels of political polarization. This report shows that such concentration is not unique to one or two economic sectors. It is persistent across a diverse range of industries.
Read MoreMatthew Buck , reporter-researcher for the Open Markets Institute, writes in The Washington Monthly about the monopolization of America’s railroads.
Read MoreWashington DC - Last Thursday, The Economist published a special report calling attention to the dangerous levels of market concentration in the U.S. economy and taking antitrust authorities to task for their inaction.
Read MoreOpen Markets filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court in support of the petitioner in Tennessee Wine and Spirits Retailers Association v. Byrd asserting that the Supreme Court should restore the states’ full regulatory authority, under the Constitution, over alcohol production and distribution.
Read MoreSince the 1970s, the US has seen a growing power imbalance between workers and employers. This story was not inevitable, but the product of conscious legal and political choices.
Read MoreOpen Markets Senior Fellow Lina Khan talks to Anand Ghiridhardas at The New Yorker about Amazon and how it has gained leverage in its search for a new city for its new headquarters.
Read MoreOpen Markets' Matt Stoller tells Nicholas Confessore and Matthew Rosenberg of The New York Times that the exposes on the tech giants, Facebook and Google, have led to a serious loss of credibility in the companies and a "serious policy problem" for the Democrats.
Read MoreWelcome to The Corner. In this issue, we condemn Amazon's HQ2 decision, and call on Congress to reopen an Office of Technology Assessment. And we look at who might chair some key committees in the next House of Representatives.
Read MoreThe government tamed AT&T into behaving like a utility. It’s time to stop letting Facebook run wild.
Read MoreOn September 28, 2018, Facebook, Inc. announced that 50 million users had been compromised in a massive data breach that put their entire accounts in the hands of unknown rogue actors. An additional 40 million users also had their accounts reset due to uncertainty about the scope of the breach.
Read MoreOpen Markets' Deputy Director Sarah Miller tells The New Yorker's Evan Osnos that “Congress and the Federal Trade Commission should come to terms with the fact that Facebook will never change, unless they force it to—and they should, without delay, to protect our democracy.”
Read More
