A recap of some of our important pieces from this year's body of work on AI.
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On World Press Freedom Day, Center for Journalism and Liberty at Open Markets Director Dr. Courtney C. Radsch published the following blog post connecting the sustainability of the free press with competition policy solutions:
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On November 15, Open Markets Institute and AI Now Institute convened leading experts from the United States and Europe for a wide-ranging discussion about the promise, threats, and regulatory challenges of large scale artificial intelligence (AI).
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Open Markets’ years of actions and scholarship on Amazon’s monopoly power.
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The Open Markets Institute publishes this blog post ahead of opening arguments in US v Google, a case brought by the US Department of Justice to challenge Google’s monopoly control over online search.
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Executive director Barry Lynn publishes a debrief on the results of the Congressional elections, and what that means for antimonopoly.
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Check out our team's top accomplishments from 2021.
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Daniel Hanley, senior legal analyst, writes about the staff and the successes of Open Markets— Together we are striving to ensure our mission of ridding the economy of corporate monopolies, becomes a reality.
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The crypto market is growing—and so is the insidious effort to exempt cryptocurrency tax reporting. Read our fact sheet about the implications of crypto tax reporting on regulatory oversight, tax evasion, and national security.
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Read our fact sheet on family-controlled investment funds - widely known as “family offices” - and the loophole that allows them to control so much of our financial markets without any regulatory oversight.
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Open Markets Institute responds to the Biden administration’s directive for a 100-day review of the country’s supply chain.
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Barry Lynn, Open Markets Institute, Executive Director writes about an Irish Council for Civil Liberties report arguing that it proves the EU is moving too slowly against Big Tech.
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The president-elect doesn’t need Congress to break up monopoly power.
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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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CJL research and reporting intern Ray Garcia delves into Steven Waldman’s latest proposal, called “A Replanting Strategy,” to save legacy newspapers cornered by predatory hedge funds and chains.
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Barry Lynn, executive director of Open Markets Institute, encourages you to check out his new book Liberty from All Masters.
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Barry Lynn, executive director of Open Markets Institute, remembers Ted Halstead, founder of New America.
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Meatpacking giant JBS recently acquired the Mountain State Rosen (MSR) lamb processing plant in Greeley, Colorado. The plant processed as much as one-fifth of all U.S. lamb and served ranchers from 15 states, but JBS plans to shut it down, leaving ranchers stranded.
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Open Markets Institute offers a short history of its work – on Amazon alone – to show how long Amazon has been building power, and why it is vital to fix Big Tech now.
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Open Markets Institute provides a current reading list on media monopoly, tech and democracy.
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Claire Kelloway writes about the overwhelming control exerted by delivery apps, and the sustainability of restaurants in the midst of this era.
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We grieve with the many families and communities who have lost loved ones to anti-Black violence. And we join Black organizers, leaders, and activists in solidarity since the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor by police.
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President Donald Trump on Tuesday used the Defense Production Act to declare meatpacking plants to be essential facilities and allowed the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to reopen plants shuttered due to outbreaks of COVID-19 among workers. The Open Markets Institute, Food & Water Action, and Family Farm Action Alliance, joined by the undersigned, share the president’s desire to ensure a robust supply of food to every American family. Unfortunately, we believe this order is the wrong way to do so.
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The Open Markets Institute calls on Congress, the Trump administration, and federal and state law enforcement agencies to use their various powers to impose an immediate ban on all mergers and acquisitions by any corporation with more than $100 million in annual revenue, and by any financial institution or equity fund with more than $100 million in capitalization.
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The Open Markets team has long been the leader in America in highlighting the ways in which concentration of production capacity can make industrial, financial, and information systems subject to catastrophic crashes.
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Open Markets recognizes the value of a vibrant, well-staffed, and aggressive FTC to enforce the antitrust laws and promote vigorous competition. However, Sen. Hawley’s plan at best misses the mark and at worst would undermine the goals of the commission. Two aspects of his proposal are especially dangerous.
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Open Markets Reporter Daniel Hanley conducts a close review of the court ruling that approved the $26 billion mega-merger reveals a number of mistakes in Judge Victor Marrero’s reasoning, which means there are several excellent legal arguments on which states could appeal the ruling.
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Food & Power Reporter Claire Kelloway reports on an investigation into an allegation that agribusiness giants Bayer, Corteva, BASF, Cargill, and others tried to crush an online ag retailing startup, the California-based Farmers Business Network (FBN). The allegation represents an abuse of market power by leading agribusinesses to maintain control over seed and agrichemical markets in an era of retail disruption.
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Personalized pricing was a popular topic at the National Retail Federation’s annual convention in New York City this month, reports Food & Power Reporter Claire Kelloway. Grocery stores can leverage a combination of data analytics and customer identification and tracking tools to offer real-time individual pricing and promotions, both online and in-store. While the practice may still be in its infancy, some experts believe that personalized prices will become the standard in food retail and beyond.
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Open Markets Policy Director Phil Longman presented a groundbreaking plan to reform health care prices, in the cover story for the current issue of the Washington Monthly. Longman proposed a system that we’re calling Medicare Prices for All. The basic idea is simple: Have the federal government mandate that the prices Medicare pays for health care apply to all health care plans.
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