Our Work

January 17, 2025— A new paper shedding light on how investor-owned utilities overcharge ratepayers through excessive rates of return, and offering concrete recommendations to ensure rates are fair and aligned with the public interest.

January 10, 2025 — The American Economic Liberties Project filed an amicus brief this week with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in the ongoing case, Ryan, LLC v. Federal Trade Commission, defending the Federal Trade Commission’s Noncompete Clause rule and challenging the district court’s sweeping use of universal vacatur to resolve challenges to the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) — which causes enforcement of the rule to be enjoined nationally.

January 9, 2025 — The American Economic Liberties Project filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit supporting Epic Games, in its civil antitrust case against Google.

December, 2024 — December version of Economic Liberties' monthly newsletter that covers the latest with the federal antitrust agencies — the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice's Antitrust Division — and other big developments in competition policy.

December 17, 2024 — In this report, Economic Liberties lays out the harms of predatory pricing in the airlines industry, exposing how Southwest’s aggressive below-cost pricing pushed Hawaiian Airlines to the brink, slashed their ability to compete, and consolidated the industry further to the detriment of the public interest.

December 11, 2024 — In this brief, Economic Liberties explains why the common "merge to compete" argument fails to hold up to reality--and legality under Supreme Court precedent.