Publications
Since roughly 2009, Americans may have been paying too much for their pork chops, barbeque, hams, and trotters. That’s the claim of two law firms that filed separate class action suits on behalf of consumers and food distributors charging eight major pork packers and an industry data sharing service, Agri Stats, with colluding to manipulate prices.
Read MoreOn Thursday, Bayer closed its $62.5 billion purchase of Monsanto. This comes roughly a week after the Department of Justice (DOJ) approved the merger, on the condition that the corporations sell off $9 billion worth of assets, including seed divisions, intellectual property, research projects, and more. Yet even after these divestitures, the combined entity will be the largest global seed and agrochemical corporation, and U.S. based field crop growers fear the power of the new combine.
Read More"We are not consumers, as they define us. We are not mere seekers of stuff, as they define us. We are not even merely workers, fighting merely for workers rights, as they define us. We are Citizens, and we seek nothing more, nor less, than a Citizen’s Liberty. Liberty to think freely. To share equally in all rule. To own our own selves absolutely."
Read MoreProperly applied, antitrust enforcement helps to ensure a balance of power between workers and employers.
Read MoreRead the transcript of News Corp Chief Executive, Robert Thomson's remarks at the Open Markets Institute Conference, Breaking the News: Free Speech & Democracy in the Age of Platform Monopoly.
Read MoreRead the transcript of New York Times CEO, Mark Thompson's remarks at the Open Markets Institute Conference, Breaking the News: Free Speech & Democracy in the Age of Platform Monopoly.
Read MoreA carefully crafted reading list, thanks to OMI staff and "Breaking the News" participants.
Read MoreOpen Markets recommended reading.
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