Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan describes how Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer has played a key role in the rise of monopoly and oligopoly across the economy.
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Chief economist Brian Callaci illustrates how Amazon’s new “franchising model” for trucking companies is really a way for the corporation to pay lower wages and outsource risk.
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Senior Legal Analyst Daniel Hanley demonstrates why Congress should incorporate federal corporate chartering into their antimonopoly agenda to democratize the economy and to ensure corporations operate in the public interest.
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Financial policy director Alexis Goldstein writes about how the decentralized nature of cryptocurrencies does not correlate with the inability to comply with tax laws.
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Policy director Phil Longman argues that President Biden’s big bet on rail infrastructure will be wasted unless he takes on the financiers who control the industry.
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Senior legal analyst Daniel Hanley explains why the FCC should block Verizon’s attempt to merge with a critical competitor and market participant.
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Senior legal analyst Daniel Hanley writes in Common Dreams about Amazon’s latest ploy to release an Alexa-enabled tracking device for children—and the corporations larger crusade to monopolize markets and surveil consumer and third-party merchants.
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Policy analyst Daniel Hanley demonstrates how federal antitrust enforcers could use compulsory licensing to help bolster and speed up other anti-monopoly efforts, especially when it comes to tech giant Google.
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Garphil Julien highlights how the killing of President Jovenal Moïse took place against a backdrop of elite power, anti-competitive policies, and the U.S. failing to create open markets.
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Policy analyst Daniel Hanley details ways U.S. law can be leveraged to ban exclusive dealing by dominant firms.
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Sandeep Vaheesan publishes a piece about how the NCAA case set back antitrust law.
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Financial Policy Director Alexis Goldstein writes about how today’s tax code incentivizes the nation’s billionaires to plow as much of their money as possible into investments in these family funds, further amplifying their wealth and giving them larger influence over the political process.
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Daniel Hanley of Open Markets Institute writes in Competition Policy International about how self-preferencing can violate Section 2 of the Sherman Act.
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Sandeep Vanheesan, legal director, and Claire Kelloway, senior reporter, write in the LPE Project about the insufficient portrayals of antimonopoly policy in the field of agriculture. Their article shines a light on the misrepresented economic statuses of farmers across the states.
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Legal Director Sandeep Vaheesan writes about how the FTC can prohibit the harmful surveillance advertising business model used by Facebook, Google, and other platforms as an unfair method of competition, and force the corporations to develop benign methods of making money.
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Washington Monthly runs Claire Kelloway’s piece from Food & Power about how tech giants are trying to create a monopoly middleman on grocery deliveries.
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Brian Callaci of Open Markets Institute writes in Forge Organizing about how trade unionism and the movement to stop monopolies are complements, not substitutes.
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In a piece in Washington Monthly, Phil Longman of Open Markets Institute highlights how monopoly power in health care compromises public health and threatens democracy in reviewing Brian Alexander’s new book, “The Hospital”.
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