Open Markets Institute Submits Written Testimony Urging the New Jersey State Legislature to Ban Non-Compete Clauses, Pass Senate Bill No. 1410.
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Open Markets Legal Director Sandeep Vaheesan testifies before House Committee on Rules Subcommittee on Legislative and Budget Process Regarding Right to Repair
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Open Markets Executive Director Barry Lynn testifies before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Competition Policy, Antitrust, and Consumer Rights
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Open Markets Executive Director Barry Lynn Testifies Before House Judiciary on How Extreme and Growing Market Concentration Chokes Supply Chains and Worsens Inflation
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Open Markets Institute Legal Director Sandeep Vaheesan testified in Applauding House Bill 22-1317,
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During “The Inflation Equation: Corporate Profiteering, Supply Chain Bottlenecks, and COVID-19,” legal director Sandeep Vaheesan outlined political economic harms of corporate consolidation.
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Lynn details how traditional anti-monopoly law and policy helped allow independent business to exist in this country—and how to address the crisis caused by its demise.
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Groups send letter asserting that McWilliams’ attempt to block a legal request for input on the FDIC’s bank merger policy is unlawful.
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Financial Policy Director Alexis Goldstein testified at the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs’ hearing on “Stablecoins: How Do They Work, How Are They Used, and What Are Their Risks?”
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See Open Markets Executive Director Barry Lynn’s full testimony.
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Open Markets spearheads a coalition letter to FSOC urging them to bring AWS under the supervision of the Federal Reserve as a utility.
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The Justice Department, Federal Trade Commission, and Financial Regulators should examine and mitigate the risks the pilot presents.
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Financial Director Alexis Goldstein testified at the U.S. Congress’s Joint Economic Committee Hearing on “Demystifying Crypto: Digital Assets and the Role of Government.”
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Better Markets and the Open Markets Institute raise serious concerns about lack of competition in derivatives markets.
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Open Markets Chief Economist Brian Callaci testified at Part 4 of the Senate Judiciary hearings on Reviving Competition: 21st Century Antitrust Reforms and the American Worker.
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Sandeep Vaheesan testified against carving out additional workers from D.C.’s “Non-Compete Conflict of Interest Clarification Amendment Act of 2021” and to instead amend the law to extend its protection to all workers in the District.
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The Center for Journalism & Liberty (CJL) at the Open Markets Institute submitted a detailed letter to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Antitrust Division, advocating for decisive action to dismantle Google’s monopoly over online search and search text advertising.
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Open Markets and civil society partners urge the European Commission to take decisive action against Google’s dominance in the digital advertising sector in order to restore balance and protect the news media and democracy.
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Open Markets submitted a comment to the FTC calling for termination of a 2012 Coopharma consent order and urging the agency to endorse an exemption for employees, contractors and small firms that challenge concentrations of power.
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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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Open Markets Institute Food Program Manager Clare Kelloway led a comment submission to the USDA in support of the agency’s proposal to regulate unfair tournament payment systems under the “Poultry Grower Payment Systems and Capital Improvement Systems” rule.
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Open Markets Executive Director Barry Lynn testified at a U.S. Trade Representative public hearing on May 2nd, 2024 on “Supply Chain Resilience.”
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Open Markets and partner civil society organisations active in Europe urge the European Commission to address early concentration in the AI market.
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The Center for Journalism & Liberty at Open Markets submitted to the Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law written testimony in response to the subcommittee’s January 10th hearing, “Oversight of AI: the Future of Journalism.”
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Open Markets worked with civil society groups from Europe, the UK and the US to submit details and recommendations to the European Commission regarding Microsoft’s partnership with OpenAI, as the Commission investigates the partnership on fair competition grounds.
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A coalition of civil society groups including Open Markets, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties, Mozilla, Foxglove and more wrote to the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) calling for a full investigation into Microsoft's $13 billion monopolistic partnership with OpenAI.
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The Open Markets Institute, Foxglove, and Balanced Economy Project have provided a civil society submission on the UK’s Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill (DMCCB), as the bill moves to the House of Lords for further discussion.
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Open Markets Institute, the Authors Guild, and the American Booksellers Association have sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) urging these agencies to focus on how Amazon abuses its monopoly power over the market for books and ideas, as regulators appear on the verge of bringing a major suit against Amazon.
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