Paramount’s Purported Threat To Leave California Is a Desperate Attempt At Extortion, Says Economic Liberties
September 18, 2026 — In response to a week of orchestrated leaks suggesting Paramount will leave California if its proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery is blocked, Economic Liberties released the following statement calling the threat what it is — an attempt to extort a settlement rather than defend the merger in court:
Economic Liberties Endorses Bill to Stop Corporate Takeovers of Physicians
September 16, 2026 — In response to today’s introduction of the Stop Corporate Takeovers of Physicians Act by Senators Elizabeth Warren, Ron Wyden, and Jeff Merkley, as well as Representatives Val Hoyle, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Suhas Subramanyam, Economic Liberties released the following statement:
Benefits Package Doesn’t Change NextEra-Dominion Deal, Economic Liberties Says
September 14, 2026 — NextEra Energy and Dominion Energy today announced a new benefits package for their proposed $67 billion merger, telling Virginians the deal will now deliver lower bills, jobs, and clean energy development. But ratepayers and policymakers shouldn’t be swayed. This move is straight out of the merging party playbook: a package of tacit bribes intended to distract and smooth the path for an illegal merger.
Wall Street Is Making Phoenix Housing Unaffordable, New Economic Liberties Report Finds
September 9, 2026 — Today, the American Economic Liberties Project released a new paper, “Phoenix Case Study: Single-Family Rentals, Built-to-Rent, and Undoing the Corporate Capture of Housing,” which examines how Wall Street investors have transformed Phoenix into one of America’s top markets for corporate-owned single-family rentals, second only to Atlanta. The paper by Laurel Kilgour and Allie Gross traces how decades of policies weakened local homebuilders and opened the door to investor capture, leaving Phoenix residents with a more elusive promise of homeownership, more expensive rent, and more aggressive evictions.
Break Up Ticketmaster Coalition Urges Court to Reject DOJ’s Live Nation Settlement as Corrupted, Impotent, and Unlawfully Disclosed
September 8, 2026 — The Break Up Ticketmaster Coalition filed a public comment last week urging the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York to reject the Department of Justice's proposed settlement with Live Nation.