Live Nation might have been able to persuade the president and DOJ’s leadership, but it wasn’t able to fool a jury.
Our statement on today's verdict on Live Nation's illegal monopoly: www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...
Here's something we love to see: @ChrisMurphyCT & colleagues with a new bill to crack down on price discrimination / strengthen the Robinson-Patman Act.
Learn more about the "Fair Prices for Local Businesses Act": www.murphy.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...
Which is better, Netflix or Paramount? The answer is neither. The film and television industry is already overly consolidated. The states must work together to block this merger because it will be very difficult (if not impossible) to unwind it down the road.
With the outstanding teamwork with Brendan Benedict and Michael Altebrando, @evanbernick.bsky.social & I proudly filed this originalist amicus brief defending birthright citizenship in Trump v. Barbara:
www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...
Today, we filed an amicus brief asking the court to break up Google's ad tech monopoly. Microsoft wasn't broken up in 2001 and looked how that turned out. We cannot keep making the same mistakes and expect things to get better.
www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...
A huge congratulations to @clairek.bsky.social & @thefern.org for their James Beard Foundation Media Award for the special series, "The Farm Bill Fight" www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...
I'm ashamed to call Lee my Senator. Do better, Senator! You know better!
Apple lost in court, lost on appeal, and was denied cert by SCOTUS. Then it tried to dodge the rules anyway - with deceptive workarounds and executive testimony the judge called “not credible.” Enough is enough. 1/6
I sometimes let my books "cure" so long that I forget I own them. It's a problem. But not one I intend to fix.
Us blue dots in red states are tired of being ignored by our representatives! We're ready for a fight!
The problem is sociopathic corporate greed. 🧐
Post from Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard that reads: Any unauthorized release of classified information is a violation of the law and will be treated as such.
Circling back on this…
Four smiling women aviators from the Women Airforce Service Pilots in front of an aircraft
No amount of “404 Not Found” will wipe their bravery and achievement off the record. They were the Women Airforce Service Pilots and they will not be forgotten.
If you think businesses should not engage in property destruction or espionage, then you already think that the antitrust laws are about fair competition. For more on this point, read the latest paper by @tarap.bsky.social and me. 👇
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
🚨 New Paper Alert 🚨
Today, my @openmarkets.bsky.social colleague @tarap.bsky.social and I are releasing our latest article:
📄 Rules of the Game: Sports as a Lens for Understanding Fair Competition
[ papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... ]
Our chief economist Brian Callaci weighed in on the DOJ's expanded RealPage suit:
"[t]he amended complaint puts property owners across the country on notice that price-fixing is always illegal, whether it happens in smoke-filled rooms or online." www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...
Couldn't agree more!
It's the same with the gig economy. If paying your workers a decent wage will make your business unprofitable, then maybe you shouldn't be in that business in the first place.
Writing is thinking.
It’s not a part of the process that can be skipped; it’s the entire point.
Today, @tarap.bsky.social argues that the government's meager enforcement of price-fixing laws - including its failure to sue the landlords involved in the recent RealPage scandal - has created an environment where business see the risk of collusion as worth the reward.
I'm bad at pottery, but I'm not that bad (not yet)
I took a pottery class and my first piece left the kiln with a giant hole in the bottom. When my mom visited the other day, I offered her my misshapen “planter pot” as a gift. She rejected it and said she’d wait "until you have a bit more practice.” I’m devastated!
