President Trump’s Promised Manufacturing Resurgence Was Supposed to Start This Year: 2026 First-Quarter Data Tell a Different Story
May 7, 2026 — Rethink Trade today published an infographic webpage compiling trade and manufacturing data now available for Q1 2026 that show President Trump’s actions on trade have not delivered on his promises to quickly balance trade and revitalize U.S. manufacturing.
New Economic Liberties Report Details How Wall Street and Big Healthcare Are Pricing Doctors Out of Independence
May 7, 2026 — As Americans face skyrocketing healthcare costs, the American Economic Liberties Project released a new report, Out of Practice: How Capital Costs and Corporate Power Are Destroying Independent Medicine, examining how local, physician-owned medical practices have been replaced by Big Healthcare conglomerates and Wall Street investors.
Oregon Lawsuit Validates State Law Targeting Corporate Control of Medicine
May 6, 2026 — The American Economic Liberties Project today celebrated the first major victory under Oregon's Senate Bill 951, the state's 2025 Corporate Practice of Medicine law, the first comprehensive update of state law to take on corporate control of medical practices.
American Economic Liberties Project Applauds Intro of the Competitive Prices Act
May 1, 2026 — Every week, American families sit down to pay their bills and wonder why everything costs so much. Groceries, rent, airline tickets, home insurance. Prices keep climbing in industry after industry, and the companies charging them keep posting record profits. Today, Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon introduced the Competitive Prices Act, a bill that would give families, enforcers, and state attorneys general the tools to do something about it.
Economic Liberties Calls for Investigation of QXO-TopBuild Building Materials Merger
May 1, 2026 — Following news of the proposed $17 billion acquisition of TopBuild Corp., the largest distributor and installer of insulation and related building products in North America, by QXO, one of the largest building materials distributors in the country, the American Economic Liberties Project is calling on the Federal Trade Commission, and state attorneys general, including Connecticut Attorney General William Tong, and Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, to investigate this anticompetitive acquisition.