Morgan’s Monopoly Digest – August 2024
August, 2024 — August 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.
A Call for .Com-petition: Reining in Verisign’s Monopoly Over the Internet’s Most Popular Top-Level Domain
July 25, 2024 — Verisign is the government-designated monopoly entitled to manage top-level domains across the internet, and it has turbocharged its profitability through an automatically renewing agreement that has, over the course of two decades, increased the price for registering or renewing a .com domain name by 70%, while the true costs of maintaining the .com TLD have likely fallen.
Morgan’s Monopoly Digest – July 2024
July, 2024 — July 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.
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.