Judge Boasberg’s Meta Decision Highlights a Judiciary Unwilling to Enforce the Law Against Big Tech
November 18, 2025 – Following a decision from Judge James Boasberg in the Federal Trade Commission’s challenge against Meta’s social media monopoly, ruling the company does not hold an illegal social media monopoly given the rise in popularity of other platforms, the American Economic Liberties Project released the following statement.
States Must Appeal Judge Mehta’s Feckless Remedies Decision in Google Search Case, Advocates Urge
November 17, 2025 – Following Judge Amit Mehta's decision in September on remedies in U.S. v. Google search, in which he declined to terminate the tech giant's monopoly despite finding last year that Google illegally maintained a monopoly over search and search advertising, the American Economic Liberties Project and a coalition of consumer advocacy and competition policy groups sent a letter urging state attorneys general to appeal the ruling.
Wall Street Homebuilders Are Choking America’s Housing Supply, New White Paper Details
November 17, 2025 – Amidst widespread outrage and intense debate over the nationwide shortage of affordable housing, the American Economic Liberties Project today released a new paper, “Capital Crunch: How the Fall of Local Finance and the Rise of Shareholder Primacy Warped Single-Family Homebuilding in America—And What to Do About It.” The paper illuminates the policy choices that created today’s financialized homebuilding industry, which bends to the will of Wall Street, restricting single-family home supply and raising prices, which has helped large builders control over 1 million lots while construction lags 1990s levels by 20%.
Judge’s GTCR–Surmodics Ruling Highlights Long-Simmering Fault in Merger Review Process
November 11, 2025 – Following news that a federal Judge in Chicago has rejected the Trump administration Federal Trade Commission’s suit to block GTCR’s acquisition of medical device coatings maker Surmodics, the American Economic Liberties Project released the following statement.
New Brief Offers Roadmap for States to Fight Back Against Big Tech’s Secret Data Center Subsidy Deals
November 11, 2025 – As states and municipalities wake up to the harmful consequences of secretive data center deals in their communities, the American Economic Liberties Project today released a new brief, How to Rein in Big Tech’s Secret Data Center Deals, to arm legislators with tools to rewrite their own rules to end these closed-door arrangements, cap subsidies, and require full disclosure of energy and water use that’s now treated as “proprietary.”