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In Slate: Radicalize the Swifties
Luke Gannon
November 30, 2022
Ron Knox writes in Slate how the shocking collapse of Taylor Swift's tour ticket presale was an inevitable failure of the monopoly Ticketmaster.READ MORE
On Vox's Today Explained: Ron Knox on Blocking the Kroger-Albertsons Supermerger
Luke Gannon
October 31, 2022
Ron Knox joined Vox’s Today Explained podcast where he details the danger, harm, and effects of the proposed Kroger-Albertsons merger.READ MORE
Boxed Out: Our New Report on How Big Retailers are Flexing Their Supply Chain Power to Kill Off Small Businesses
September 22, 2022
Powerful retailers are killing off small businesses by dominating supply chains. Our new report argues it’s time to revive the Robinson-Patman Act and restore antitrust enforcement against predatory buying.READ MORE
WATCH: Midwest Forum on Fair Markets
Reggie Rucker
September 22, 2022
The Midwest Forum on Fair Markets explored new federal and state action to reinvigorate our antitrust policies and support small businesses, family farms, working people, and communities. Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison and FTC Commissioner Alvaro Bedoya made keynote addresses at the forum, which also featured panel discussions by people on the frontlines fighting for antimonopoly reform in Minnesota and nationally.READ MORE
FEATURED REPORTS
Report: How New Federal Antimerger Guidelines Can Roll Back Corporate Concentration and Build Local Power
Stacy Mitchell
June 29, 2022
Issue Brief: Why the 21st Century Antitrust Act is Critical for New York Small Businesses
Katy Milani
May 19, 2022
Our Guide Gives State and Local Leaders Tools to Fight Corporate Monopolies
Jess Del Fiacco
July 15, 2020
RECENT ARTICLES
How Tax Policies Fuel Monopolies and Undermine Small Business
October 28, 2022
In a special issue of Tax Justice Focus, Stacy Mitchell and Susan Holmberg write that local, state, and federal policymakers have systematically structured the tax system to fuel corporate power and disadvantage small businesses. No one has more effectively harnessed the tax system to build a monopoly than Amazon-founder Jeff Bezos.READ MORE
In Crain’s, NY Antitrust Bill Can Level the Playing Field for Small Business
Luke Gannon
April 4, 2022
In The Forge: We Need a Popular Front to Overthrow Corporate Rule. Small Businesses Are Key.
Stacy Mitchell
March 24, 2022
In Financial Times: The Innovations We Lose if We Don’t Break Up Big Tech
Susan Holmberg
February 16, 2022
In The American Prospect: Why Congress Must End America’s Merger Free-for-All
Luke Gannon
October 28, 2021
In The New York Times: How a Labor & Small Business Alliance Could Rebuild the Middle Class
Susan Holmberg
June 18, 2021
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"Trustbusting Is Making a Comeback": Stacy Mitchell's Keynote at the National Rural Grocery Summit:
Luke Gannon
June 22, 2022
ILSR Co-Director Stacy Mitchell gave a barnburner keynote address at the National Rural Grocery Summit, where she detailed how monopolistic corporations are squeezing independent businesses and farmers out of the market — and the antimonopoly comeback that is fighting to resurrect our antitrust laws.READ MORE
ILSR Calls for New Merger Standards to Halt Concentration, Revive Local Economies
Stacy Mitchell
April 27, 2022
Congressional Testimony: How Concentrated Corporate Power Undermines Shared Prosperity
Katy Milani
July 14, 2021
Sen. Klobuchar Calls for Breakups in Town Hall Co-Hosted by Small Business Rising
Hannah Henderson-Charnow
June 17, 2021
FEATURED FROM OUR PODCAST
Inflation: The True Monopoly Story
Luke Gannon
August 25, 2022
On this episode of Building Local Power, Rakeen Mabud the Chief Economist at Groundwork Collaborative and Ron Knox, Senior Researcher and Writer at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, take us on a riveting journey exposing the story of inflation that most economists don't want to tell.READ MORE
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Listen: How Epic Games' Acquisition of Bandcamp will Impact Independent Artists
Luke Gannon
March 10, 2022