ILSR’s legal fellow Shaoul Sussman testified before the New York State Assembly, in support of new state legislation, the Twenty-First Century Antitrust Act.… Read More
ILSR helped organize and participated in a briefing, cosponsored by more than 40 local and national economic and racial justice, small business, and antimonopoly groups,...
This ILSR report finds that Amazon is exploiting its gatekeeper power to impose huge fees on the third-party sellers that rely on its marketplace.
Stacy Mitchell provides the House Judiciary Committee with recommendations for future antitrust legislation. … Read More
Nilay Patel, host of the Vergecast, interviewed Co-Director Stacy Mitchell on the pandemic’s disruptions to our supply chains, the importance of competition, and the growing...
Hundreds of thousands of small businesses shuttered by COVID-19 are at risk of closing for good in the coming weeks. To protect Main Street jobs,...
Host Zach Freed speaks with Jim Hrncir, owner of Las Colinas Pharmacy in Irving, Texas. Zach and Jim discuss how independent pharmacies are responding to...
Cities and states must help support businesses and working families, especially until the federal response meets the scope of the COVID-19 crisis. In some places,...
Host Stacy Mitchell talks with Harry First about how competition policy has become captured by technocratic lawyers and economists, and strayed from its roots as...
Many people assume that local pharmacies are declining because they can’t compete. In fact, research by Consumer Reports and others has found that independent pharmacies...
ILSR’s comments explain why this merger will harm competition, undermine independent office supply businesses, and accelerate Amazon’s dominance of this industry, and why the FTC...
ILSR’s Stacy Mitchell recently spoke on a panel focused on how to rein in Amazon’s monopoly power, hosted by the George Washington Institute of Public...
The FTC is examining the state of antitrust policy. Many of those invited to testify have reinforced the status quo, but moments of dissent show the...
In a series of hearings this fall, the Federal Trade Commission will examine whether it should be doing more to check concentrated economic power. ILSR...