Factsheet: The FTC–For the First Time in Decades–Held Corporate America Accountable to Protect Small Businesses, Workers, and Consumers
July 13, 2022 (Updated January 2025) — The Federal Trade Commission, led by Chair Lina Khan, entered a new era of more effective, modern, and democratic enforcement to better protect consumers, workers, and independent businesses. Chair Khan revitalized the FTC’s critical enforcement role, promoting free and competitive markets where new entrants and small businesses can thrive by combatting unprecedented levels of economic concentration and fostering competition in pursuit of prosperity.
Laws Are Not Suggestions: How the CFPB Is Delivering for the American People
January 28 2025 — Under Director Rohit Chopra, the CFPB has held scammers like Wells Fargo accountable, returning billions of dollars of Americans’ hard-earned money to their bank accounts; fought back against Wall Street and Big Tech’s discriminatory and anti-competitive behavior; ensured violating the law can no longer be written off as just a “cost of doing business;” and restored financial freedom to millions of Americans held hostage by the credit reporting cartel.
Tools For Reining in Monopoly Utilities: A Guide for State Lawmakers
January 24, 2025 — "Tools For Reining in Monopoly Utilities: A Guide for State Lawmakers" serves as a how-to-guide for state and local lawmakers to fight back against corporate consolidation in the utilities industry.
Rate of Return Equals Cost of Capital: A Simple, Fair Formula to Stop Investor-Owned Utilities From Overcharging the Public
January 17, 2025— A new paper shedding light on how investor-owned utilities overcharge ratepayers through excessive rates of return, and offering concrete recommendations to ensure rates are fair and aligned with the public interest.
Amicus Brief: Ryan LLC v. Federal Trade Commission
January 10, 2025 — The American Economic Liberties Project filed an amicus brief this week with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in the ongoing case, Ryan, LLC v. Federal Trade Commission, defending the Federal Trade Commission’s Noncompete Clause rule and challenging the district court’s sweeping use of universal vacatur to resolve challenges to the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) — which causes enforcement of the rule to be enjoined nationally.
Amicus Brief: Epic Games v. Google LLC
January 9, 2025 — The American Economic Liberties Project filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit supporting Epic Games, in its civil antitrust case against Google.