MSN: Comcast Has Another Sneaky Price Increase
Data from ILSR is used to report on internet service price increases by the telecom giants.… Read More
On Pitchfork Economics: Why We Can’t Let Kroger Buy Albertsons
Stacy Mitchell explains on Pitchfork Economics how for the last forty years, merging companies have convinced regulatory agencies that their merger will be better for customers — most often pledging that it will lower prices. Stacy argues that the company’s statement promising to pass savings on to consumers is blatantly false.… Read More
The Mercury News: Comcast told him it would cost $17,000 to speed up his internet. He rallied neighbors to build their own fiber-optic network instead
Sean Gonsalves, ILSR Senior Broadband Reporter, Editor and Communications Team Lead, advocates for a solution to slow broadband that is reliant on indifferent telecommunication giants.… Read More
CBC’s Canada Tonight: Ticketmaster’s Monopoly Power and the Taylor Swift Ticket Fiasco
Ron Knox, Senior Writer and Researcher at ILSR, joined CBC’s Canada Tonight to discuss Ticketmaster’s disastrous rollout of the Taylor Swift Eras tour pre-sale… Read More
CNN Business: An Antitrust Earthquake
ILSR co-director Stacy Mitchell appeared on CNN Business’s Nightcap to discuss the blocked Penguin Random House/Simon & Schuster merger and its broader meaning for antitrust… Read More
“The beginning of the end of the consumer welfare standard,” Stacy Mitchell Says of Blocked Merger of Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster
Mitchell adds in the statement, “It also raises serious questions about whether Amazon’s monopoly power over the book industry will be allowed to stand.”… Read More
ILSR Ratifies First Union Contract
Leadership and staff at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance announced today that they have ratified a contract with a new, robust salary schedule, 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave (FMLA), an accelerated vacation accrual schedule, and paid personal days.… Read More
Vox’s Today, Explained: Supermarket Supermerger
Ron Knox, Senior Researcher and Writer at ILSR, discusses the proposed Kroger/Alberstons grocery merger on Vox’s Today, Explained podcast, hosted by Noel King. … Read More
The Guardian: Kroger-Albertsons mega-merger could cause more US food deserts, experts say
ILSR co-director Stacy Mitchell is interviewed by The Guardian on dangers of the proposed Kroger-Alberstons merger.… Read More