Factsheet: The FTC is Holding Corporate Actors Accountable, Protecting Small Businesses, Workers, and Consumers
July 13, 2022 (Updated July 2024) — While navigating a leadership transition during a pandemic, an historic merger wave, and unprecedented economic dominance driven by rampant concentration, Chair Khan is steering the FTC to protect working families and honest businesses with stronger law enforcement.
Fact Sheet: Robinson-Patman Act enforcement will lower – not raise – prices for consumers and create a level playing field for businesses of all sizes
June 20, 2024 — In anticipation of a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) lawsuit against Southern Glazer’s Wine and Spirits for price discrimination in violation of the Robinson Patman Act (RPA), Economic Liberties prepared this fact sheet. This document provides an overview of the RPA and the impacts of lax enforcement, busts industry-backed myths, and highlights how reinvigorating the law will provide a powerful tool to tackle the power of middleman predators like Walmart.
Better Wages and Working Conditions: How States Should Tackle Noncompete Agreements, “TRAPs,” and Other Restraints On Worker Mobility
June 11, 2024 — The purpose of this memorandum is to provide model legislation and relevant context for state lawmakers seeking to protect workers, small businesses, and consumers from the harmful effects of noncompete agreements. Over the course of this memorandum, we describe what noncompete agreements are—including agreements that function as noncompetes—and describe best practices for banning them outright.
Laws Are Not Suggestions: How the CFPB Is Delivering for the American People
June 10, 2024 — 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.
Written Comments for HHS, DOJ, and FTC’s RFI on Consolidation in Health Care Markets
June 5, 2024 — Economic Liberties submitted this comment in response to the Department of Justice (“DOJ”), Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), and Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) joint request for information (“RFI”) regarding consolidation in health care markets.
Morgan’s Monopoly Digest – June 2024
June, 2024 — December version of Economic Liberties' monthly newsletter that covers the latest with the federal antitrust agencies — the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice's Antitrust Division — and other big developments in competition policy.