Sally Hubbard on How Monopolies are "Destroying the American Dream" – Why Walmart Wants Antitrust Scrutiny of Amazon
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Welcome to The Corner. In this issue, the problem with Facebook’s new Libra currency and why Facebook’s and Google’s power over digital media doesn’t mean the US should tolerate other powerful corporations.
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Welcome to The Corner. In this issue, we focus on Congress’s plan to investigate platform monopolists and highlight a new study that details how mergers can lead to sharp cuts in product variety.
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Welcome to The Corner. In this issue, we discuss the idea that the best way for Americans to counter the power of Chinese tech giants is to accept the concentration of power by corporations like Google and Facebook.
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In this issue, we discuss why the Supreme Court’s recent opinion in Apple v. Pepper may indicate a profound shift in antitrust philosophy and enforcement.
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Welcome to The Corner. In this issue, we share Open Markets’ proposal for simple, traditional “bright-line” rules to guide antitrust enforcement. And we highlight a speech by a prominent judge who spoke of America’s monopoly problem and proposed using long-neglected antitrust tools to address Google and Facebook.
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Welcome to The Corner. In this issue, we discuss why the FTC had to spend two years proving that it was illegal for a drug monopolist to pay off its competitor. And we share two new feature articles by Open Markets team.
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Welcome to The Corner. In this issue, we report on a forum, co-sponsored by Open Markets Action in Storm Lake, Iowa, in which five leading Democratic presidential candidates addressed the link between economic concentration and the declining fortunes of rural America.
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Welcome to The Corner. In this issue, we cover our recent petition to the Federal Trade Commission, calling on it to ban non-compete clauses for all workers. We also discuss how a new report from the United Kingdom on digital competition falls short of actually addressing platform monopolists’ power.
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Welcome to The Corner. In this issue, we show where the Justice Department went wrong in its challenge to AT&T’s acquisition of Time Warner. We also highlight several works recently put out by Open Markets opposing monopoly power.
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Welcome to The Corner. In this issue, we look at the Green New Deal and how anti-monopoly philosophy is key to reaching this audacious vision. We also highlight a warning by an FTC commissioner on the dangers that platform monopolists pose to democracy and civil rights.
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In this issue, we map the new, deep divide on anti-monopoly philosophy at the FTC. And we explain why new calls to increase taxes on billionaires are part of an American anti-monopoly tradition that traces to Franklin, Jefferson, and Adams.
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Welcome to The Corner. In this issue we point out the shortcomings of Apple CEO Tim Cook’s big plan to promote privacy and highlight one Republican congressman’s ambitious plan to counter hospitals’ monopoly power. We also share two feature articles by Open Markets in the new Washington Monthly on how fighting monopoly can help Democrats win the Senate, and on the secret anti-monopoly powers of the FTC.
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Welcome to The Corner. In this issue, we offer a preview of what’s to come with the new Democratic House majority. And we reveal the merger to monopoly that could put control of every national print magazine in one corporation.
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Happy Holidays from The Corner. In this special edition, we recommend the best anti-monopoly books from the past year, share a few articles that illuminate ways monopoly can ruin your holidays, and nominate a new Brookings report for our new WWW award, for Worst Washington White Paper of the year. Also, we celebrate OMI Editorial Director Phillip Longman's debut as a television cartoon character, in a new episode of “Adam Ruins Everything.”
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Welcome to The Corner. In this issue we look at what The New York Times missed in its otherwise excellent recent story on location tracking by Google, Facebook, and app developers. We also put the UK Parliament's release of the Six4Three documents in the context of rising anger around the world with Facebook’s abuses of power.
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In this issue of The Corner, we report on the fast-building pressure on the FTC to address Facebook's abuse and misuse of its power, and we share some more details from our new report, "America's Concentration Crisis." We also announce two opportunities for reporters and future lawyers to work with Open Markets.
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Welcome to The Corner. In this issue, we condemn Amazon's HQ2 decision, and call on Congress to reopen an Office of Technology Assessment. And we look at who might chair some key committees in the next House of Representatives.
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