Sandeep Vaheesan, legal director, and Brian Callaci, chief economist co-authored a piece about judicial changes to antitrust law that has taken a more permissive approach to coercion and exploitation affecting worker wages.
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Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan gives insight on how concentration in the electric power sector is one of the main sources to the greenhouse gas emission crisis, which in turn, contributes to frequent periods of exceptionally high temperatures, climate change, and natural disasters.
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CJL director Dr. Courtny Radsch wrote an opinion piece that lays out the problems and solutions of Big Tech’s latest AI technology being built to inherently exploit the intellectual property of journalists resulting in writer’s unemployment, revenue loss, and more.
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In this issue, we explore how hedge funds degrade freight railroads by stripping operators of valuable assets and skilled workers.
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Open Markets’ Europe director Max von Thun’s recent article in ProMarket was cited in The Brookings Institute, which dismissed the notion of creating European champions.
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Senior reporter Karina Montoya and senior legal analyst Daniel Hanley co-authored a piece amplifying the DOJ’s landmark case against Live Nation and Ticket Master as a turning point of American antitrust regulators turning a blind eye to coercion by market-dominant firms.
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On June 27, 2024, the Open Markets Institute and The Guardian US will host an urgent discussion to identify solutions to America’s information crisis.
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Reporter Austin Ahlman and CJL Director Dr. Courtney Radsch co-wrote a report explaining why regulations are needed to check the proliferation of disinformation on the Big-Tech Platforms.
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Open Markets’ executive director Barry Lynn was quoted in Politico urging President Biden to flaunt his solid track record on fighting corporate power during his reelection campaign.
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Open Markets Institute Food Program Manager Clare Kelloway released a statement concerning the U.S. Department of Food and Agriculture’s newly-proposed Fair and Competitive Livestock and Poultry Markets rule under the Packers and Stockyards Act:
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In this issue, we discuss the need to protect the child care industry from private equity powers looking for quick profit, particularly with an increase in public subsidies to support the critical sector.
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On Monday, June 24 from 9:30 AM – 4 PM ET, Open Markets Institute, the National Women’s Law Center, and Community Change will host an event and release a new report that examines the role of private equity in plundering the nation’s child care industry and outlines a policy strategy to increase the supply of child care as a public good.
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Open Markets Institute’s report, AI in the Public Interest: Confronting their Monopoly Threat, which was published last year, in an article on federal investigations into Nvidia, Microsoft, and OpenAI for their monopolization of the AI space was cited in Valuetainment.
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Open Markets’ Europe director Max von Thun last week participated in an event hosted by Oxford University on the intersection of retail trends and competition policy, where he spoke on a panel on the relationship between the high street and Big Tech, and how we can level the playing field.
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CJL director Dr. Courtney Radsch participated in a media innovation conference in Rio de Janeiro hosted by the Associação de Jornalismo Digital - Ajor
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Open Markets and the producers behind Food, Inc. 2 hosted a roundtable discussion on how monopolies took over our food system and what policy makers can do to break them up. Upon requests, participants will received a link to view Food Inc. 2, which puts the issue of corporate consolidation in the spotlight.
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