Open Markets Institute filed an amicus brief in a case before the Supreme Court, AMG Capital Management, LLC v. FTC urging the court to protect the FTC’s ability to recover money from violators of competition and consumer protection law.
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Garphil Julien, research associate for Open Markets Institute, and Daniel Hanley, policy analyst for Open Markets Institute, write in American Banker that Visa’s acquisition of Plaid highlights the need for more merger enforcement.
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Welcome to The Corner. In this issue, we explain why the Justice Department should stop a proposed merger among giant publishers, and we discuss our new report on vaccines, which lays out a plan for the Biden administration to stop the next pandemic by reforming the vaccine production system.
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Open Markets Institute urges DOJ to challenge ViacomCBS’s plans to sell the Simon & Schuster book publisher to Penguin Random House, and calls on the DOJ to immediately take steps to break Amazon’s power over the sale and distribution of books in America.
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Open Markets Institute is thrilled to announce that Rana Foroohar has agreed to join our board of directors. Rana is the global business columnist and an associate editor at the Financial Times and is the global economic analyst at CNN.
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Open Markets Institute joins Family Farm Action Alliance in releasing a groundbreaking report titled, “The Food System: Concentration and Its Impacts,” at a virtual event featuring Sen. Cory Booker. The report was authored by Dr. Mary Hendrickson, Dr. Phil Howard, Emily Miller, and Dr. Douglas Constance.
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Open Markets Institute’s report, “Corporate Monopoly and the Decline of America’s Vaccine Industry,” lays out what the Biden administration should do to repair the U.S. vaccine system and defeat the next pandemic.
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The Open Markets Institute issued the following memorandum on how the next administration can and should reverse course to stop the handful of powerful, vertically integrated corporations from controlling entire agricultural markets, exploiting workers, and mining the countryside.
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Welcome to The Corner. In this issue, we examine Nov. 3 ballot initiatives that aimed to rein in corporate power, and we break down the European Union’s groundbreaking lawsuit against Amazon.
Senior reporter & researcher, Claire Kelloway, writes about how California’s Prop. 22 was really just a plot by food delivery companies to avoid paying employee benefits and protections.
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Open Markets Institute research associate, Garphil Julien, writes in The American Prospect about how Amazon, private equity, and real estate conglomerates are doing what discounters like Walmart did in the 1970s to the retail industry.
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Barry C. Lynn, executive director of Open Markets Institute, joins Zephyr Teachout in conversation about his latest book, “Liberty from All Masters” via Harvard Book Store.
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Sally Hubbard, the director of enforcement strategy at the Open Markets Institute, joins Sarah Frier, technology reporter at Bloomberg, to discuss Hubbard’s new book, “Monopolies Suck” via Politics and Prose bookstore.
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Open Markets Institute filed an amicus brief in the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit describing the harms of tying arrangements and the legal restrictions on the practice.
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Open Markets Institute filed an amicus brief with the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in the case of BRUCE E. ELLISON, M.D., v. AMERICAN BOARD OF ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY, INC., I
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Welcome to The Corner. In this issue, we announce the publication of Sally Hubbard’s new book, Monopolies Suck, and we showcase three groundbreaking articles by the Center for Journalism & Liberty analyzing the crisis of the news industry in America and how to address it.
