When shoppers interact with Amazon, they see an innovator. But behind the scenes, Amazon relies on a labor model that looks a lot more like...
This map shows the states in which Amazon collects sales taxes.… Read More
Amazon is destroying competition and market diversity, leaving us with fewer choices, less innovation, and diminished opportunities. … Read More
Amazon has extended its tentacles across our economy. In this report, we pull back the curtain on the company, and find that it’s at the...
Small businesses have been in steep decline. In this report, we argue that anticompetitive behavior by large, dominant corporations is largely to blame and present...
For the first time in 28 years, the Democratic Party platform calls for vigorous, stepped-up enforcement of our anti-monopoly laws. This remarkable shift in policy...
All great retail empires eventually fall. A&P did. So did Montgomery Ward. But Walmart’s recent announcement that it would close 269 stores may not be...
A growing body of research is giving us new ways to quantify the harms of bigness and the benefits of local ownership. In this post,...
Amazon is on a building spree, and many local officials are eager to bring one of its giant fulfillment centers to their own backyard. But a...
Amazon fulfillment centers impose so many hidden costs on local economies that cities ought to reconsider welcoming them at all, much less greasing the way...
North Dakota has a different kind of banking sector than the rest of the country does, with six times as many locally owned financial institutions...
Amazon’s predatory monopoly is still unchecked, but a coalition of authors is calling on the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate it. In a 24-page letter,...
Thanks in large part to the Bank of North Dakota, community banks and credit unions are much more robust in North Dakota than in other...
No company moves as much stuff across the world’s oceans as Walmart does, and the climate consequences are immense. Ferrying all those cheap TVs, T-shirts,...
The precipitous decline in the number of community banks in recent years is a national crisis, and there’s a fierce debate underway right now about...