In this issue, Open Markets policy counsel Tara Pincock — who helped write the original lawsuit against Google — discusses a potential breakup. 

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.

In this issue, we explore how Intel’s recent woes suggest that Biden administration’s CHIPS and Science Act was insufficient and recommend how the next administration must go further in investing in semiconductor manufacturing to protect the country’s national interest.

In this issue, we report from the Virginia courthouse where the DOJ is laying out its case against Google for monopolization of ad tech. And we look at Europe’s fascinating debate on how to rebuild its economy.

Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan and chief economist Brian Callaci have co-written an article on the impact that unaffordable housing is having on regional and national economics, specifically high living cost areas, and what to do to fix the problem.

Chief economist Brian Callaci notes that while some franchise owners may face challenges due to California's minimum wage increase for fast-food workers, the overall impact on the industry is expected to be minimal

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.

Open Markets’ legal director Sandeep Vaheesan and chief economist Brian Callaci as spoke at an event hosted by the NYU Wagner Labor Initiative on Friday May 10th, 2024.