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.
Patty Durand, candidate for the Georgia Public Service Commission, explains how the Commission failed to protect consumers from the Vogtle nuclear power plant, what Durand...
Ron Knox writes in Slate how the shocking collapse of Taylor Swift's tour ticket presale was an inevitable failure of the monopoly Ticketmaster.
Amazon’ strategy — which includes securing tax advantages — offers a road map of how to harness the tax system to build a monopoly.
Ron Knox joined Vox’s Today Explained podcast where he details the danger, harm, and effects of the proposed Kroger-Albertsons merger.
"Kroger/Albertsons would control $1 of every $4 American dollars spent on groceries. That’s as big as Walmart, [which] has done widespread damage to communities"
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison and FTC Commissioner Alvaro Bedoya gave keynotes at the forum, which featured people on the frontlines fighting for antimonopoly reform.
For this episode of the Local Energy Rules Podcast, host John Farrell and community leaders in six different municipalization campaigns explain why a city might...
Biden “repudiated 40 years of federal policy that favored bigness and overlooked the harm monopoly power can inflict on working people, small businesses, and communities.”
German national public television network ARD's documentary “Is Amazon a Monopoly?”, featuring an interview with Stacy Mitchell, was viewed by 3 million people.
Ron Knox and Katy Milani explain how the New York 21st Century Antitrust Act would help stop corporate abuses and return power to New Yorkers.
On "What Could Possibly Go Right?", Vicki Robin asks Stacy Mitchell, “In this moment of great turmoil what promise do you see on the horizon?”
Stacy Mitchell calls the New York Senate's passage of the 21st Century Antitrust Act "a win for New York’s small businesses, working people, and communities."