Our tax system used to serve as a check on corporate power. Now it fuels market concentration and undermines the ability of small businesses to compete, Susan Holmberg and Niko Lusiani explain in ProMarket. … Read More
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, promote anti-merger enforcement in Congress, and educate federal judges about the intent behind anti-merger laws.… Read More
ILSR co-director Stacy Mitchell appeared on CNN Business’s Nightcap to discuss the blocked Penguin Random House/Simon & Schuster merger and its broader meaning for antitrust… Read More
Mitchell adds in the statement, “It also raises serious questions about whether Amazon’s monopoly power over the book industry will be allowed to stand.”… Read More
Ron Knox joined Vox’s Today Explained podcast where he details the danger, harm, and effects of the proposed Kroger-Albertsons merger. … Read More
Ron Knox, Senior Researcher and Writer at ILSR, discusses the proposed Kroger/Alberstons grocery merger on Vox’s Today, Explained podcast, hosted by Noel King. … Read More
ILSR co-director Stacy Mitchell is interviewed by The Guardian on dangers of the proposed Kroger-Alberstons merger.… Read More
ILSR co-director Stacy Mitchell is quoted in The New York Times on the proposed Kroger/Albertsons merger: “We don’t need another mega grocery store chain.”… Read More
Mitchell says in the statement, “Kroger and Albertsons would control $1 of every $4 spent on groceries in the US. That’s as big as Walmart, whose power in food has done widespread damage to communities, farmers, food workers, and local grocers.”… Read More
