How Amazon uses its monopoly power to extract extreme and rapidly growing fees from businesses on their site that have little choice to reach customers.
Ron Knox argues that the FTC must leverage its most potent weapon against Amazon's anticompetitive behavior: Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act.
In a letter to the FTC, ILSR warns that control over cloud computing is dangerously concentrated thanks in large part to Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Amazon exploited its chokehold of the online retail sector by extracting more than $155 billion in fees from Amazon marketplace sellers, Stacy Mitchell says.
Amazon's ability to bully and exploit other businesses through its integration across business lines is an example of why the bill is so important.
Our tax system used to serve as a check on corporate power. Now it fuels market concentration, write Susan Holmberg and Niko Lusiani in ProMarket.
“It’s time to revisit and reimagine the proactive role tax policy can have in enabling fair competition,” says Susan Holmberg, a co-author of the report.
Local and federal policymakers have systematically structured tax policy in a way that deepens the concentration of corporate power, Stacy Mitchell and Susan Holmberg argue.
Amazon’ strategy — which includes securing tax advantages — offers a road map of how to harness the tax system to build a monopoly.
Commissioner Bedoya made a case that the guiding aim of antitrust should be fairness, including fairness for small businesses, a fundamental shift for the agency.
Ron Knox writes that if Amazon's acquisition of iRobot is allowed to happen, Amazon would buy its way to dominance in yet another industry.
Today, Amazon announced that it would buy One Medical, an acquisition would completely transform the healthcare industry giving Amazon easy access to private healthcare data.
Stacy Mitchell writes how Sen. Amy Klobuchar's bill will stop Amazon's predatory behavior and force tech giants to compete on a level playing field.
Amazon portrays itself as a partner to businesses, but business owners tell a very different story about their experience selling on Amazon’s marketplace.
German national public television network ARD's documentary “Is Amazon a Monopoly?”, featuring an interview with Stacy Mitchell, was viewed by 3 million people.