Anti-Monopoly Policies & Enforcement

August 23, 2022 — On the heels of a historic post-pandemic merger wave, and a recent joint Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice merger guideline rewriting initiative, the American Economic Liberties Project released “Why Merger Policy Matters,” highlighting why the movement underway to rethink merger policy is key to leveling the playing field for businesses, consumers, and working people.

August 10, 2022 — Economic Liberties' Director of Policy & Advocacy Morgan Harper launched a monthly newsletter to catalogue the latest with the “antitrust agencies,” the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ), Antitrust Division, as well as cover the work of other federal agencies that regulate competition policy.

July 21, 2022 — In USA Today, Economic Liberties’ Senior Fellow for Aviation & Travel Bill McGee lays out the causes of the current airline and travel crisis, highlighting Secretary Buttigieg’s inadequate response and arguing for rolling back federal preemption, which currently prevents state attorneys general among others from holding the airlines accountable.

June 22, 2022 — Designed to catalogue the ways PBMs wield their power to exploit patients, pharmacists, doctors and our government, "The Pharmacy Benefit Mafia" details PBMs’ abusive business practices, their history of skirting regulation, and how the FTC’s recent efforts can put power back into the hands of patients and pharmacists.

June 13, 2022 — In The Guardian, Economic Liberties’ Research Director Matt Stoller explains how shortages of vital, life-preserving goods are routine in America – and they’re the product of bad policy.