Our Work

November 17, 2022 — November 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.

November 14, 2022 — In Scientific American, Rethink Trade Director Lori Wallach and Joseph Stiglitz urge the international trade community to make COVID-19 treatments and tests more accessible.

November 8, 2022 — The American Economic Liberties Project filed an amicus brief in support of the U.S. Department of Justice’s appeal of the district court decision to allow U.S. Sugar Corporations’ $350 million acquisition of rival Imperial Sugar Company. The brief argues that that the acquisition cannot be sustained under the incipiency standard created by Section 7 of the Clayton Act, in both the regional and national markets proposed by the parties.

October 19, 2022 — "How Antitrust Enforcers Helped Create a Live Events Monster" explains how the merger between Live Nation and Ticketmaster highlights the failures of the light-touch approach to antitrust and merger enforcement. The policy brief lays out how and why present day enforcers must redress this — and other — mistakes.

October 13, 2022 — October 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.

October 10, 2022 — In ProMarket, Economic Liberties' Senior Legal Counsel Katie Van Dyck and Research Manager & Editor Erik Peinert examines how antitrust enforcers’ desertion of the Robinson-Patman Act allowed power buyers like Walmart and Amazon to take over the economy. The piece also pushes back on claims that reviving the law would be bad for consumers.