Open Markets Institute today welcomed a new Fellow to our team, Beth Baltzan. In her position as a Fellow, Beth will focus on the impact of monopoly power on trade and its consequences for national security.
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Open Markets Institute strongly condemns the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) decision to approve the merger of office supply giant Staples and the wholesale office supply distributor Essendant.
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Open Markets Institute calls on Congress and the Federal Trade Commission to immediately investigate how to protect America’s independent news media from the power and predatory business models of Google and Facebook.
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Open Markets believes that reestablishing the right of workers, consumers, and business to litigate cases on a collective basis is essential for taming the excesses of concentrated corporate power.
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Open Markets Institute sent a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler with recommendations on how to approach the problem of monopoly this Congressional session.
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Open Markets Offers Commentary on Democrats’ Rural Gap and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) as ‘Progressives’ Secret Weapon’
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Washington 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.
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After a long public drama, the corporation announces there is no real HQ2.
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Today, The New York Times published an opinion piece by Ron Kim and Zephyr Teachout, which rebukes Amazon’s potential move to Long Island, NY.
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The new Congress should immediately revive the Office of Technology Assessment
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The Open Markets Institute released the following statement today regarding its brief sent to the FCC urging the commission to block the merger of T-Mobile and Sprint
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The Open Markets Institute released the following statement today after the Federal Trade Commission cleared the $80 billion merger of Praxair, Inc. and Linde AG
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Open Markets statement on the passing of former FTC Chairman Robert Pitofsky.
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The Open Markets team strongly supports Senator Warren’s call to separate the business of retailing from the business of making things.
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Open Markets Institute Applauds Senator Cory Booker’s Food and Agribusiness Merger Moratorium and Antitrust Review Act of 2018.
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Open Markets Institute's Executive Director, Barry Lynn, responds.
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This morning, the Open Markets Institute joined the Electronic Privacy Information Center, the Center for Digital Democracy, Consumer Watchdog, and Fight for the Future in the release of the following letter to EU Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager.
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In response to the Supreme Court's decision in Ohio v. American Express, the Open Markets Institute released the following statement.
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