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The Biden Administration’s proposed merger guidelines represent a shift in policy from the current guidelines; our explainer breaks down the basics of the new guidelines
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...
In the Project Syndicate, Stacy Mitchell and Ron Knox write how the FTC's merger guidelines, if adopted, would stop corporate consolidation and preserve US democracy.
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 provides a dispatch about how fishermen in the Pacific Northwest are taking a stand against Pacific Seafood, the dominant West Coast crab processor.
Ron Knox writes in Competition Policy International that in order to foster a more democratic economy we must strengthen merger guidelines and enforce anti-merger laws,...
On Pitchfork Economics, Stacy Mitchell argues that merging companies' assuaging regulators by promising to pass savings on to consumers is based on false promises.
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"
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.
New merger guidelines will make it harder for large corporations to amass power by buying other companies, over time shaping how judges apply antitrust laws.
FTC and DOJ's announced new merger guidelines set the stage for a new era in antitrust regulation, restoring competition and building local power.
On this episode of Building Local Power, host Jess Del Fiacco is joined by her colleagues John Farrell, Stacy Mitchell, and Ron Knox, where they...