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May 23, 2024 — The Department of Justice Antitrust Division today filed an extensive antitrust lawsuit against Live Nation-Ticketmaster for its monopoly power over the live events supply chain, including the primary ticket selling market, concert promotions, and major venues. The complaint alleges that Live Nation has reinforced its monopoly power through exclusive dealing, tying of large amphitheaters and concert promotions, and the splitting of markets with potential competitors. In response, the American Economic Liberties Project released the following statement.  

May 21, 2024 — Senator Elizabeth Warren, Senator Chris Murphy and other leading lights of the anti-monopoly movement concluded a jam-packed day of keynote speeches, conversations, and interactive panels at the 2024 Anti-Monopoly Summit with rousing calls to action, demanding we build an economy that benefits working families and small businessowners over large corporations. 

May 21, 2024 — Regulators and enforcers kicked-off of the American Economic Liberties Project's 2024 Anti-Monopoly Summit with speeches on how they’re fighting corporate power across the economy and delivering victories for working families across food, healthcare, housing, and more. 

May 20, 2024 — In response to Minnesota Governor Tim Walz signing HF 3438 into law — the first of 13 proposed state-level junk fee bans to become law this year, and the second comprehensive ban on deceptive, mandatory junk fees to ever become state law — the American Economic Liberties Project released the following statement.

May 16, 2024 — In response to news that the Supreme Court of the United States has sided with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in CFPB v. CFSA—the payday lending lobby’s legal challenge to the constitutionality of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s funding structure—the American Economic Liberties Project released the following statement.