Apple Exploits Smartphone Monopoly to Chill Innovation, Lock In Consumers, and Keep Prices High, DOJ Suit Reveals
March 21, 2024 — In response to news that the Department of Justice Antitrust Division and 16 State Attorneys General have filed an antitrust suit against Apple for monopolizing the smartphone market—raising prices for consumers and using anticompetitive tactics to box out competition—the American Economic Liberties Project released the following statement.
FTC Supply Chain Study Shows Why We Need to Enforce Robinson-Patman Act
March 21, 2024 — In response to the release of the results from a 6(b) study from the Federal Trade Commission on the supply chain practices of large grocery retailers and food producers, examining whether those firms are charging different prices to small firms compared to big ones, or giving preferential access to supplies in shortage to big customers versus small ones, the American Economic Liberties Project released the following statement.
The “One Agency Act” is a Dangerous Rollback of Antitrust Law
March 21, 2024 — Ahead of a mark up session in the U.S. House Judiciary Committee today that includes the “The One Agency Act,” a bill that would essentially fold the FTC’s competition authorities into the DOJ Antitrust Division, the American Economic Liberties Project released the following statement.
Capital One-Discover Faces Daunting Regulatory Gauntlet, New Transaction Analysis Finds
March 21, 2024 — The American Economic Liberties Project today released a new brief “Capital One-Discover: A Competition Policy and Regulatory Deep Dive,” which provides new analysis of the market dynamics at play in the transaction and examines how the proposed acquisition may fare under review from antitrust enforcement and bank regulatory agencies.
Economic Liberties Urges HHS & ONC to Bolster Electronic Claims Standard Following Change Crisis
March 12, 2024 — As a cyberattack on UnitedHealth Group-owned healthcare payments exchange Change Healthcare continues to paralyze broad swaths of the US healthcare system, the American Economic Liberties Project today sent a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services and Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, calling on them to implement a new electronic claims standard to boost the resilience of America’s healthcare payments infrastructure. The letter comes alongside a new Economic Liberties fact sheet breaking down the Change Healthcare cyberattack and the role of corporate consolidation in driving it.