NPR 1A: What’s Got Wall Street So Worried? And When Will Main Street Come Back?
January 30, 2021 — Economic Liberties’ Research Director Matt Stoller joined NPR’s 1A to discuss how financial institutions with risky business models take advantage of financial crises and encourage market manipulation and fraud.
Key Senate Committees Should Reject Antitrust Enforcement Nominees with Ties to Big Tech
January 27, 2021 — Economic Liberties, Public Citizen and 22 other groups sent a letter to U.S. Sens. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), and Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), urging the committee to reject Big Tech executives, lobbyists, lawyers, and consultants who are nominated for senior antitrust enforcement roles in the Biden administration.
New York Times: Democratic Congress Prepares to Take On Big Tech
January 26, 2021 —In an interview with the New York Times, Economic Liberties’ Executive Director Sarah Miller discussed the House Antitrust Subcommittee’s digital markets report and offered insight into what comes next for Congress and Big Tech.
ProMarket: Pentagon Report Points to Two Major Risks to National Security: Consolidation and Shareholder Capitalism
January 25, 2021 — ProMarket cited writing by Economic Liberties’ Matt Stoller and Lucas Kunce about the corrosive effect that the offshoring of critical industrial capabilities, together with a financial industry that created strong incentives for consolidation, have had on America’s national security.
BBC Tech Tent: Biden’s plan for big tech
January 22, 2021 — BBC World News interviews Economic Liberties’ Executive Director Sarah Miller about Big Tech, Biden, and what comes next for the world’s most dangerous monopolies.