Past Events

Join Economic Liberties and a coalition of allies on August 10 at 2:00PM ET for a virtual event featuring FTC Chair Lina Khan and DOJ AAG Jonathan Kanter on the agencies' draft merger guideline.

Join Economic Liberties and a coalition of allies on August 10 at 2:00PM ET for a virtual event featuring FTC Chair Lina Khan and DOJ AAG Jonathan Kanter on the agencies' draft merger guideline.

Join Economic Liberties and partners from across the anti-monopoly movement for the 2023 Anti-Monopoly Summit in Washington, D.C.

Join Economic Liberties and partners from across the anti-monopoly movement for the 2023 Anti-Monopoly Summit in Washington, D.C.

Join Economic Liberties and Americans for Financial Reform (AFR) on January 25 at 1:30PM ET or a virtual event featuring remarks from Senator Elizabeth Warren on what we can learn from the rise and fall of the crypto industry.

Join Economic Liberties on Tuesday, Nov. 15 at 8pm ET/5pm PT for a discussion with best-selling investigative journalist Chris Leonard about how decision-making at the Federal Reserve has accelerated income inequality and put our country's economic stability at risk.

Join us for our latest “Thinking Big” discussion on Thursday, October 27 at 8pm ET / 5pm PT with Rana Foroohar for a conversation on global resiliency, prosperity, and democracy.

On October 6 at 2:00 p.m. ET, join Rethink Trade for a town hall discussion with Rep. Ro Khanna, Teamsters General President Sean O'Brien, and Rethink Trade Director Lori Wallach.

Join us as we talk with Professor Kathryn Judge for the next installment of “Thinking Big” series. We'll discuss what happens when power shifts from producers and consumers to the middlemen that connect them.

On September 15 at 12:00 p.m. ET, join the American Economic Liberties Project and NY Asmb. Anna Kelles for a discussion about the tools state and local officials can use to crack down on Big Tech giants.

On September 14 at 12:00 p.m. ET, join the American Economic Liberties Project and IL Rep. Bob Morgan for an important conversation to discuss how state and local leaders can take on the corporate subsidy machine.

On September 13 at 12:00 p.m. ET, join the American Economic Liberties Project and MN AG Keith Ellison for a discussion about the tools state and local officials can use to crack down on corporate power & reform antitrust policy.

Join us as we talk with Brandi Collins-Dexter for our latest "Thinking Big." We’ll discuss issues of political identity, power, and economy through the lens of Black voters and hear her perspective on how we can repair a fracturing relationship.

On July 28 at 1:00 p.m. ET, join the American Economic Liberties Project, NY Senate Deputy Majority Leader Michael Gianaris and other state and community leaders for an important conversation and workshop about the harms of secret deals and why states must ban them.

Join us as we talk with Dr. Elizabeth Popp Berman for the second installment of “Thinking Big.” We’ll dig into the origins of this economic style of reasoning, its takeover of federal policymaking, and how it can be overcome.

PBMs raise drug prices, create pharmacy deserts, are turn pharmacy care into a nightmare. Learn more about the FTC’s new 6(b) study of PBMs and why we need bipartisan solutions from Congress, featuring Sen. Sherrod Brown, Rep. Buddy Carter, and FTC Chair Lina Khan.

At a moment of acute political, economic, and social uncertainty, please join us as we take a step back to wrestle with big ideas shaping our politics with NYT's Peter Goodman to discuss his book, “Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World.”

Learn how the policy choices made over the last 50 years left us with a brittle and broken supply chain that has resulted in small businesses falling through the cracks. And hear what policymakers like Senator Tammy Baldwin are doing to build a resilient supply chain.

A loophole in U.S. trade law allows Big Tech to import billions of dollars of unsafe, counterfeit, and forced labor-made goods from Beijing. Learn how the U.S. House is working to fix it and how the Senate may block the solution.

We can end the pandemic, but it requires taking action now to break Big Pharma’s monopoly control of COVID-19 vaccines, diagnostic tests, and treatments.

Join us for a town hall event featuring White House National Economic Council Director Brian Deese, National Economic Council Deputy Director Bharat Ramamurti, and Special Assistant to the President for Technology and Competition Policy Tim Wu.

Join the American Economic Liberties Project, New York State Senator Michael Gianaris, D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine, and other state and local leaders to discuss the fight to challenge corporate power at the state and local level.

Join the American Economic Liberties Project and the National Farmers Union on November 1 at 12 pm ET the concrete steps policymakers must take to revive competition in American agriculture.

Facebook and Google are two of the world's most dangerous monopolies. Join the Freedom from Facebook and Google coalition to hear from Senator Elizabeth Warren and Congressman Mondaire Jones and welcome 10+ new partners to the original coalition.

On March 30 at 2:00 p.m. ET, Economic Liberties, People’s Action, Congresswoman Cori Bush (MO-01), and more discussed why we need leaders at all levels of government to fight corporate health care monopolies to make our health care system more equitable.

On March 18th at 12:30 PM ET, Economic Liberties and the Investigate Insulin Now campaign hosted a discussion with Congresswoman Porter focused on the dangerous impacts of the insulin cartel, racial inequities in insulin access, and insulin market concentration.

On Friday, March 12th at 12:00 PM ET, we launched a new “Access to Markets” initiative featuring remarks from House Antitrust Subcommittee member and Innovation and Entrepreneurship Caucus Co-Chair Rep. Joe Neguse (CO-02).

On Thursday, March 4th at 2:00 p.m. ET, the American Economic Liberties Project hosted a discussion about how extreme consolidation in the national security supply chain is expensive, unsafe, untenable, and un-democratic.

People’s Action and the American Economic Liberties Project kicked off our new virtual event series “Break ‘Em Up! Redistributing Economic Power to the People" with a discussion focused on how concentrated corporate power hurts labor and workplace organizing efforts.

On Thursday, November 19th at 2:00 p.m. ET, Economic Liberties hosted a discussion on how increased competition in domestic markets can boost our ability to compete with China, secure our supply chains, and improve the position of the American worker.

The American Economic Liberties Project hosted a conversation with House Antitrust Subcommittee Chair David Cicilline (D-RI), Mike Kubzansky, Rohit Chopra, David Heinemeier Hansson, and Jonathan Kanter.

The Protect Our Restaurants campaign hosted a conversation with Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon (PA-05) about the federal and state policies we need to take on these predatory middlemen and create healthy restaurant markets.

As the Antitrust Subcommittee prepares its final plan of action, 40 organizations hosted a conversation on September 1st at 2pm about why breaking up these dominant corporations is key to protecting workers, small businesses, communities, and democracy.

Economic Liberties hosted an event with Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA), the Honorable Sarah Bloom Raskin, former Deputy Secretary of the Treasury and Governor of the Federal Reserve Board, Mehrsa Baradaran, Professor at the University of California, Irvine, and more.

Economic Liberties and The American Prospect hosted an event with Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), Karen Kornbluh of the German Marshall Fund, and Economic Liberties' Matt Stoller about changing Section 230 to make Facebook and Google safer for our democracy.

Economic Liberties' Executive Director Sarah Miller talked with Federal Trade Commissioner Rohit Chopra and Zephyr Teachout about concentrated corporate power, the Coronavirus crisis, and the bold structural reforms needed to build a fairer economy.

Economic Liberties, with the American Sustainable Business Council, hosted a briefing with Senator Ben Cardin, Ranking Member of the Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee, on the day the Small Business Administration Paycheck Protection Program launched.

Economic Liberties and The American Prospect talked with Congressman Mark Pocan (D-Wis.), Co-Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, about the coronavirus crisis and how we can restore resiliency and redundancy to our supply chains.