Representatives Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and David Cicilline (D-RI) quoted Open Markets when they spoke out on the floor of the House of Representatives on Wednesday, May 9, 2018 against H.R. 5645, the Standard Merger and Acquisition Review Through Equal Rules Act of 2018.
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Open Markets Executive Director Barry Lynn spoke in late January in Brussels at a conference titled A Perfect Storm: A Time of Truth for Europe, hosted by Cristina Caffarra and The Capitol Forum. Lynn spoke on a panel with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and FTC Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter, among others. Other speakers included economist Simon Johnson, who recently won the Nobel Prize, MEP Andreas Schwab, former German Secretary of State for Economic Affairs Sven Giegold, Ambassador Katherine Tai, CFPB Director Rohit Chopra, FT Columnist Rana Foroohar, UK MP Chi Onwurah, MEP Alexandra Geese, and Marietje Schaake.
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CJL director Courtney Radsch conducted an interview with the Polish Public Television to emphasize the unprecedented levels that the connection between business and politics have reached through Elon Musk and his ties with the Trump Administration.
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Senior legal analyst Daniel Hanley discusses his recent paper “Illuminating the Anti-Coercion Foundations of Refusals to Deal” and its implications.
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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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Executive director Barry Lynn was featured on Letters and Politics discussing how Google has expanded its dominance across various sectors.
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Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan appeared on a lunch talk hosted by LPE Project to discuss his forthcoming book, Democracy in Power: A History of Electrification in the United States.
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Executive director Barry Lynn appears on Keen on arguing that that big tech monopolies like Google, Amazon, and Microsoft pose the greatest threat to American democracy, requiring urgent antitrust action to safeguard freedom
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Senior reporter Karina Montoya was a featured podcast guest brought to discuss the start of a significant antitrust trial against Google, focusing on its alleged monopoly in online advertising, with concerns about its negative impact on competition and journalism, highlighting the broader implications for tech regulation.
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Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan joins the Broken Law Podcast to discuss major updates in antitrust, including the FTC’s rule banning non-competes and the Amazon, Kroger-Albertsons, and Apple cases.
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CJL director Dr. Courtney Radsch’s was a guest on this video podcast episode to give her take on misinformation, disinformation, news media, and big tech companies.
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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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Executive director Barry Lynn spoke at the 2024 Stigler Antitrust Conference at the University of Chicago, which focused on “Antitrust, Regulation and the Diffusion of Innovation.” Lynn participated in a panel titled “The End of the Beginning for the Antimonopoly Movement?,” along with Zephyr Teachout, Cristina Caffarra, Matt Stoller, and Sohrab Ahmari.
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Open Markets Europe director Max Von Thun was interviewed on “The Tech Brief” podcast, where he discussed how Europe can better approach competition policy and directed listeners to a recently published manifesto, which outlined how the European Union can put antimonopoly at the heart of its policy agenda.
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Executive director Barry Lynn and senior fellow Johnny Ryan joined the first in-depth public discussion in Brussels of the European Commission’s failure to use its full antimonopoly authority to address pressing threats posed by concentration.
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