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Jul 19 2024 — Following testimony at today’s joint public hearing on Capital One’s $35.3 billion acquisition of Discover Financial Services with the Federal Reserve Board and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the American Economic Liberties Project released the following statement. 

Jul 17, 2024 — In response to news that the San Francisco Board President Aaron Peskin has introduced a first-in-nation municipal ordinance to ban algorithmic price setting in the rental housing market, the American Economic Liberties Project released the following statement.

Jul 15, 2024 — In response to news that Judge James P. Shuck vacated the trial date in the State of Ohio’s lawsuit against Google–less than 24 hours after Google made a surprise submission invoking the Supreme Court’s NetChoice decision, and without waiting for Attorney General Dave Yost’s responsive filing–the American Economic Liberties Project released the following statement.

Jul 11, 2024 — In response to the introduction of the Housing Acquisitions Review and Transparency (HART) Act, a bill proposed by Senator Amy Klobuchar and eight other Senate Democrats that would empower federal antitrust enforcers to scrutinize and block large-scale acquisitions of residential properties by corporate investors, the American Economic Liberties Project released the following statement. 

Jul 11, 2024 — In response to news that the Pennsylvania House of Representatives has passed HB 2344, a bill empowering the state attorney general to examine and rein in health care consolidation, by a bipartisan vote of 114-88, the American Economic Liberties Project released the following statement.