Publications
One of the most reckless profiteering trends in recent decades is dominant corporations’ use of repair restrictions to force consumers to use original manufacturers’ repair services. To document and address this issue, the Open Markets Institute today released Fixing America: Breaking Manufacturers’ Aftermarket Monopoly and Restoring Consumers’ Right to Repair.
Read MoreThe FTC has proposed to settle a market allocation scheme among three leading rent-to-own operators with a "do not break the law again" order and also opted not to challenge an illegal interlocking directorate arrangement among two of them. The rent-to-own industry is a part of the fringe financial sector (think payday and title lenders, pawn shops, and check cashers) that preys on the working poor squeezed by low and volatile incomes and denied access to conventional credit.
Read MoreIn a comment filed with the USDA, the Open Markets Institute urges the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to curtail meatpackers’ abusive tactics and to stand up to judicial overreach by reviving the Packers and Stockyards Act (PSA).
Read MoreThe Open Markets Institute and our allies agree there is a pressing need for new vertical merger guidelines. The existing guidelines were fundamentally flawed when they were first introduced by the Reagan Administration in 1984. OMI and its allies call on the FTC and the DOJ to draft new guidelines consistent with the text and purpose of the Clayton Act and the DOJ’s 1968 Merger Guidelines.
Read MoreOpen Markets Executive Director Barry Lynn is interviewed in the Feb. 18 episode of the PBS documentary series Frontline, titled “Amazon Empire: The Rise and Reign of Jeff Bezos.”
Read MoreThe Open Markets Institute warmly congratulates the American Economic Liberties Project – headed by Sarah Miller, previously the deputy director of the Open Markets Institute – on its launch today.
Read More"Judge Victor Marrero’s ruling allowing T-Mobile’s acquisition of Sprint further concentrates the national wireless market and empowers all corporations seeking dominance through mergers and acquisitions," said Open Markets Legal Director Sandeep Vaheesan in a statement today.
Read More"We congratulate Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey on her court victory against Facebook, which had refused to provide evidence demanded in her office’s subpoena," said Open Markets Director of Enforcement Strategy Sally Hubbard today in a statement.
Read More"We strongly support the entrepreneurs and independent businesses who are standing up to challenge the dominance of Facebook, Amazon, and Google over America’s markets," said Open Markets Executive Director Barry Lynn in a statement today.
Read MoreThe Open Markets Institute is proud to announce the addition of two new members to its board of directors, Christy Hoffman and Laura Quinn, who will help lead the organization in the fight to protect democracy in America and around the world from dangerous concentrations of power and control.
Read MoreThe Open Markets Institute is very proud to announce the creation of a new, 12-member academic advisory board to help guide and advise Open Markets’ research and policy work.
Read MoreIn response to a report by The New York Times that U.S. Department of Justice Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust Makan Delrahim substantively helped T-Mobile and Sprint merge, Open Markets Director of Enforcement Strategy Sally Hubbard makes the following statement.
Read MoreToday, the Open Markets Institute filed an amicus curiae brief in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in support of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in its suit against generic drug maker Impax Laboratories.
Read More“Open Markets has long called for reinvigorating the Packers & Stockyards Act," said Open Markets Institute's Food & Power Reporter Claire Kelloway. "This is a transformative step in challenging Big Ag’s monopoly power.”
Read MoreAs Rep. Nancy Pelosi prepares for a showdown in Congress over her Lower Drug Costs Now bill, Open Markets Institute today released The Role of Monopoly in America’s Prescription Drug Crisis.
Read MoreToday, the Open Markets Institute released The Role of Hospital Monopolies in America’s Health Care Crisis, which presents insights into how the astronomically high cost of health care in the United States is a result of increasing corporate concentration of hospital ownership.
Read MoreIn the biggest government antimonopoly case since Microsoft, Open Markets filed an amicus brief in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in support of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in its suit against Qualcomm.
Read More"Importing drugs won’t bring prices down significantly because it fails to address the root cause of the problem: monopoly," said Open Markets Managing Editor Michael Bluhm in a statement today.
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