As Affordability Dominates National Debate, Economic Liberties Empowers State Lawmakers to End Dystopian Pricing Schemes
November 21, 2025 – As Americans across the country continue to grapple with skyrocketing costs for essential goods, the American Economic Liberties Project today launched The Fair Price Fight initiative, an online resource to empower state lawmakers to combat the new frontier of deceptive pricing tactics—from invasive surveillance-based pricing and algorithm-driven rent hikes to predatory junk fees—including tools, policy briefs, and the development of model legislation designed to help state and local governments hold corporations to account.
Court Lets States Join HPE-Juniper Case as Allegations of Corrupt DOJ Process and Meddling Mount
November 19, 2025 – Yesterday, Judge Casey Pitts from the Northern District of California granted a motion filed by 12 State Attorneys General and the Attorney General of Washington, D.C., to intervene in the Tunney Act oversight proceedings in the federal government’s challenge to the merger of Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)-Juniper Networks (Juniper).
Judge Boasberg’s Meta Decision Highlights a Judiciary Unwilling to Enforce the Law Against Big Tech
November 18, 2025 – Following a decision from Judge James Boasberg in the Federal Trade Commission’s challenge against Meta’s social media monopoly, ruling the company does not hold an illegal social media monopoly given the rise in popularity of other platforms, the American Economic Liberties Project released the following statement.
States Must Appeal Judge Mehta’s Feckless Remedies Decision in Google Search Case, Advocates Urge
November 17, 2025 – Following Judge Amit Mehta's decision in September on remedies in U.S. v. Google search, in which he declined to terminate the tech giant's monopoly despite finding last year that Google illegally maintained a monopoly over search and search advertising, the American Economic Liberties Project and a coalition of consumer advocacy and competition policy groups sent a letter urging state attorneys general to appeal the ruling.
Wall Street Homebuilders Are Choking America’s Housing Supply, New White Paper Details
November 17, 2025 – Amidst widespread outrage and intense debate over the nationwide shortage of affordable housing, the American Economic Liberties Project today released a new paper, “Capital Crunch: How the Fall of Local Finance and the Rise of Shareholder Primacy Warped Single-Family Homebuilding in America—And What to Do About It.” The paper illuminates the policy choices that created today’s financialized homebuilding industry, which bends to the will of Wall Street, restricting single-family home supply and raising prices, which has helped large builders control over 1 million lots while construction lags 1990s levels by 20%.