FHFA Takes Steps to Bring Down Costs for Americans in Moves to Open Up Title Insurance Market and Weaken FICO Monopoly
July 11, 2025 – In response to recent actions from Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte to introduce competition in the title insurance market and reduce FICO’s dominance over credit scoring in the mortgage industry, the American Economic Liberties Project released the following statement.
Trump Admin’s Push to Reshore Rare Earths Supply Chain is Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
July 11, 2025 – Following the Department of Defense’s announcement yesterday that it will invest $400 million in rare earth miner MP Materials — making it the company’s largest shareholder — in efforts to reshore production, the American Economic Liberties Project released the following statement.
Trump FTC’s Delay of Click to Cancel Rule Clears the Way for the Chamber of Commerce to Kill It In Court
July 8, 2025 – Following a new ruling from United States Court of Appeals for Eighth District that vacates the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) Negative Option Rule (or Click-to-Cancel Rule) on pure procedural grounds, effectively killing the rule before it’s slated to go into effect next week, the American Economic Liberties Project released the following statements.
U.S. Reliance on Imported Food Worsens, New Analysis Reveals, with Iconic Independence Day Favorites Included in $58.7 Billion U.S. Food Trade Deficit
July 3, 2025 – Americans’ reliance on imported food has grown dramatically with a $58.7 billion food trade deficit in 2024 that caps a decade of growing American food trade deficits caused by increased imports, a new report by American Economic Liberties Project’s Rethink Trade reveals. The report was released as an innovative infographic webpage and can be found here.
Former FTC Commissioner Alvaro Bedoya Joins Economic Liberties as Senior Advisor
July 1, 2025 – The American Economic Liberties Project today announced that former Federal Trade Commissioner Alvaro M. Bedoya will join the anti-monopoly organization as Senior Advisor. At Economic Liberties, Bedoya plans to pursue new ways to fight for workers and small businesses through public interest litigation and continue to educate Americans across the country on their rights under antitrust, privacy, and consumer protection law.