Our initiative leads efforts to fight the unchecked power of corporate monopolies and champions policies that level the playing field for small independent businesses.
Amazon has long cultivated the idea that it runs its shopping platform at razor-thin margins, relying instead on AWS for its profits. In fact, Amazon’s e-commerce marketplace is enormously profitable. In The Atlantic, Stacy Mitchell writes about how Amazon has kept these profits secret – and why the SEC must enforce corporate financial disclosure rules.
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Hundreds of independent businesses from across the country tuned in to a virtual town hall — featuring Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan — to mark the progress and build momentum to rein in monopoly power and level the playing field for small, independent businesses.
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