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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%.

November 11, 2025 – Following news that a federal Judge in Chicago has rejected the Trump administration Federal Trade Commission’s suit to block GTCR’s acquisition of medical device coatings maker Surmodics, the American Economic Liberties Project released the following statement. 

November 11, 2025 – As states and municipalities wake up to the harmful consequences of secretive data center deals in their communities, the American Economic Liberties Project today released a new brief, How to Rein in Big Tech’s Secret Data Center Deals, to arm legislators with tools to rewrite their own rules to end these closed-door arrangements, cap subsidies, and require full disclosure of energy and water use that’s now treated as “proprietary.”

November 10, 2025 – Following a reported settlement Visa and Mastercard have with merchants in a private antitrust case alleging the duopoly uses its market power to centrally price-fix swipe fees charged by banks that issue cards under their brand, the American Economic Liberties Project released the following statement urging the rejection of the settlement. 

November 7, 2025 – In response to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issuing its final 2026 Medicare physician fee schedule, the American Economic Liberties Project released the following statement.