The Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division are proposing new Merger Guidelines and they want you to share your stories. You are...
Communities are adopting innovative strategies to sustain their grocery stores or create new ones amidst the challenges posed by grocery sector consolidation.
This draft heralds an overdue end to the dangerous, destructive approach of the last four decades, Stacy Mitchell, ILSR Co-Executive Director, says in the statement.
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).
On the Capitol Forum podcast, Stacy Mitchell explains that the real cost of groceries can be traced to Walmart's predatory tactics and failed antitrust enforcement.
Amazon exploited its chokehold of the online retail sector by extracting more than $155 billion in fees from Amazon marketplace sellers, Stacy Mitchell says.
Our fact sheet explains how credit card monopolies and banks are imposing swipe fees to profit at the expense of small business and consumers.
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.
Stacy Mitchell explains how big retailers exploit their financial control over suppliers, threatening independent grocers and increasing prices. Enforcing the Robinson Patman Act could help.
This virtual event examined ways dominant retailers exert their power, how communities are fighting back, and how leaders can restore fairness in our food system.…...
In a conversation with MECEP's Arthur Phillips, Stacy Mitchell discusses how concentrated corporate power has impacted Maine and what state leaders can do about it.
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.