How Big Retailers Get Illegal Pricing Deals and How to Fight Back
An ILSR event with independent business associations exploring how your business can stand up to big corporate power and level the playing field.
An ILSR event with independent business associations exploring how your business can stand up to big corporate power and level the playing field.
Ron Knox’s advocacy and analysis have helped allies push California towards crucial reforms to its antitrust law, the Cartwright Act.
In The American Prospect, Ron Knox outlines some recent local wins against corporate monopolies like Live Nation and Amazon.
Motion seeks to reveal details of complaint alleging PepsiCo gave preferential pricing to big-box retailer while harming independent grocers and consumers.
Ron Knox testified in support of a proposed bill that would strictly prohibit corporations from using monopoly power to abuse workers, small businesses and consumers.
ILSR hosted a congressional briefing featuring antitrust experts, small business owners, and lawmakers to hear about unfair corporate pricing practices that are squeezing small businesses.
99% Invisible, with Stacy Mitchell's help, devotes an episode to the relationship between food deserts and the federal government's abandonment of Robison-Patman Act enforcement.
States can and often do play a crucial role in antitrust enforcement; these recommendations will help ensure that state enforcers can effectively utilize that authority.
Ron Knox explains the rise of trustbusting at the state level in the face of federal regulatory chaos.
Ron Knox explores the implications of the FTC's decision, under Chair Andrew Ferguson, to drop a case alleging Pepsico violated the Robinson-Patman Act.
At a conference inspired by her work, Stacy Mitchell delivers a talk about how abandonment of Robinson-Patman Act enforcement leads to food deserts.
Ron Knox joined fellow advocates to demonstrate how the state can bolster its antitrust laws to benefit California citizens.
Commissioners Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Kelly Slaughter met with small businesses, discussing the critical role of antitrust policy in supporting local economies.
The FTC has chosen to "abandon communities that depend on fair competition to maintain access to essential goods and services," says Stacy Mitchell
More than almost any other factor, a community’s planning and land use laws and policies affect its success in supporting small, locally owned businesses.