Chief economist Brian Callci and senior legal analyst Sandeep Vaheesan debate how the YIMBY (short for "Yes In My Backyard") movement, which calls for zoning reforms, falls short of in addressing the nation’s housing affordability crisis, arguing for the federal government to take a more active role in providing housing
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The Open Markets Institute filed an amicus brief in Ryan v. FTC, marking the second appellate case in which Open Markets has defended the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) landmark prohibition on non-compete clauses.
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Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan and chief economist Brian Callaci advocate for rent control in Atlanta as a vital solution to combat housing affordability issues and economic inequality.
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Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan joins The Excerpt to discuss the lawsuit which alleges RealPage, a software company providing data-driven tools for managing rental properties, enabled landlords to collude using shared rental data, driving up rents and reducing competition.
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Chief economist Brian Callaci was quoted criticizing corporations for protecting their control over management while unfairly blaming workers for issues caused by poor managerial decisions.
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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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Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan and chief economist Brian Callaci have co-written an article on the impact that unaffordable housing is having on regional and national economics, specifically high living cost areas, and what to do to fix the problem.
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Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan speaks on this podcast episode to discusses the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) ban on noncompete clauses, which prevent workers from taking jobs with competitors and a recent court ruling that temporarily blocked the ban.
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Open Markets speaks out advocating for a lawsuit filed today by the Department of Justice and eight states to hold RealPage accountable for its part in the scheme of landlords are colluding to raise prices by using the software.
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The Open Markets Institute released a statement on the decision Judge Ada Brown of the Northern District of Texas to strike down a landmark new rule enacted by the Federal Trade Commission that would have banned non-compete clauses in employment contracts.
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Chief economist Brian Callaci notes that while some franchise owners may face challenges due to California's minimum wage increase for fast-food workers, the overall impact on the industry is expected to be minimal
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Sandeep Vaheesan, legal director, and Brian Callaci, chief economist co-authored a piece about judicial changes to antitrust law that has taken a more permissive approach to coercion and exploitation affecting worker wages.
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Open Markets Legal Director Sandeep Vaheesan released a statement on the Department of Justice and state attorneys general suing to break up the entertainment and ticketing monopoly, Live Nation-Ticketmaster (formally “Live Nation Entertainment”).
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Wisconsin senator Tammy Baldwin quoted Open Markets Institute’s legal director Sandeep Vaheesan in a press release her STOP Bad Mergers Act, which she recently introduced to crack down on mergers that result in higher prices and fewer American jobs.
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Open Markets’ legal director Sandeep Vaheesan and chief economist Brian Callaci as spoke at an event hosted by the NYU Wagner Labor Initiative on Friday May 10th, 2024.
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Open Markets Legal Director Sandeep Vaheesan released a statement in response to the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) final rule to ban non-compete clauses for all workers.
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Open Markets senior legal analyst Daniel Hanley called for the enforcement of the all-but-lapsed Robertson-Patman Act (RPA), enacted in the 1930s by discussing RPA’s ability to level the playing field for small retailers competing against the likes of Walmart and Amazon.
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Open Markets’ chief economist Brian Callaci was quoted on an April wage hike for fast food workers in the state to $20 an hour.
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Open Markets Legal Director Sandeep Vaheesan put out a statement on the final 2023 merger guidelines from the US Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission.
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Two new publications feature Open Markets writers and thinkers defining the ways in which President Biden’s economic policies represent a tremendous “sea change” for America's political economy, which shows early signs of generating shared prosperity and stronger, healthier democracies.
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The Open Markets Executive Director Barry Lynn released a statement on the Biden Administration’s newly-announced executive order on artificial intelligence (AI).
A new report by chef Kiki Louya, published by the Open Markets Institute, examines the peanut industry, where farmer-owned cooperatives like Premium Peanut have seen great success taking on the giant shelling monopolies, and explores how other farmers might use cooperatives to circumvent monopolists.
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Open Markets Institute Food Program Manager Claire Kelloway released a statement regarding the Department of Justice’s lawsuit against the meat industry data company Agri Stats.
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Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan published an article on how the political economic significance of the Inflation Reduction Act is still being vigorously debated—is it more neoliberalism or something different and better? Vaheesan draws on the history of the Hoover Dam to offer a progressive scenario: The IRA as a major boost to cooperative and publicly owned electric utilities.
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The Open Markets Institute and partners including SEIU, Rural Advancement Foundation International-USA (RAFI-USA), Public Citizen, and more, submit a comment urging the Justice Department (DOJ) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to strengthen and clarify the new, draft merger guidelines.
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Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan and chief economist Brian Callaci wrote an op-ed calling on the Federal Trade Commission to support independent contractors working by banning contracts that exert employment-like control while depriving contractors of rights given to employees.
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The Open Markets Institute today led a coalition of fifty civil society groups that urged the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to ban non-compete clauses as well as functionally equivalent restraints.
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The Open Markets Institute and that Union of Open Markets Staff have ratified their inaugural collective bargaining agreement (CBA), the first union contract for employees at Open Markets.
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