Has U.S. Antitrust Reached a Turning Point?
Stacy Mitchell joined a panel, hosted by the Berkeley Economy and Society Initiative at UC Berkeley, exploring who is winning the antitrust battle and why.… Read More
Watch: Trustbusters are Scoring Pivotal Wins
ILSR’s Co-Executive Director Stacy Mitchell and American Economic Liberties Project’s Matt Stoller joined the Laura Flanders & Friends show to explain this pivotal antitrust moment. “Everybody is feeling this,” observed Mitchell. … Read More
In The American Prospect: Pandemic-Era Corporate Bullying
In a new study, the Federal Trade Commission found that big retailers threatened to punish suppliers unless they got first dibs on food and household goods during the pandemic. Ron Knox explains it in The American Prospect, and recommends what the agency should do next.… Read More
On More Perfect Union: What Dollar General Doesn’t Want You to Know
Dollar General is stealing from its customers. It’s a major scam that’s siphoning hundreds of millions of dollars from the poorest people in America. In a new More Perfect Union video, Stacy Mitchell explains how the chain’s business models rips people off.… Read More
In The Atlantic: Amazon’s Big Secret
Amazon has long cultivated the idea that it runs its shopping platform at razor-thin margins, relying instead on AWS for its profits. In fact, Amazon’s e-commerce marketplace is enormously profitable. In The Atlantic, Stacy Mitchell writes about how Amazon has kept these profits secret – and why the SEC must enforce corporate financial disclosure rules.… Read More
Chicago City Council Votes to Rein In Dollar Store Development
Another city is fighting back against dollar chains. The Chicago City Council has voted to enact an ordinance that will limit development of new chain dollar stores. Over 60 other cities and towns have enacted similar ordinances in recent years, but Chicago is the largest city to date to do so.… Read More
In the Chicago Tribune: Why Chicago Needs to Limit Dollar Stores
“Eliminating food deserts requires many solutions. But there is one absolutely essential action: preventing dollar stores from proliferating,” Tulsa City Council Member Vanessa Hall-Harper and ILSR Senior Researcher Kennedy Smith wrote in The Chicago Tribune in support of a proposal to limit dollar stores. … Read More
Small Business Rising is Moving the Antitrust Debate
The Small Business Rising coalition is playing a pivotal role in the push for stronger antitrust. … Read More
Is Amazon a Monopoly? Documentary Newly Released in the U.S.
Watch the newly released English-language version of a powerful documentary about Amazon’s outsized power, both in the U.S. and abroad. The film, which first aired on German public television, features Stacy Mitchell explaining to viewers how Amazon operates its monopoly machine.… Read More