ILSR Submits Comments to the FTC on Staples / Essendant Merger
ILSR’s comments explain why this merger will harm competition, undermine independent office supply businesses, and accelerate Amazon’s dominance of this industry, and why the FTC...
ILSR’s comments explain why this merger will harm competition, undermine independent office supply businesses, and accelerate Amazon’s dominance of this industry, and why the FTC...
Following months of public debate and community action, Amazon announced last week that it would continue to grow its workforce in New York, but would...
In a series of hearings this fall, the Federal Trade Commission will examine whether it should be doing more to check concentrated economic power. ILSR...
A national contract opens the way for Amazon to take over billions of dollars in local government spending. In this report, we examine the contract...
A recent contract opens the way for billions of dollars in local government spending to shift to Amazon. The good news is that, for concerned...
The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent ruling in the case Ohio v. American Express makes even more clear the importance of the growing movement of citizens...
ILSR’s Stacy Mitchell was recently a guest on the popular podcast “Bad With Money,” where she talked with host Gaby Dunn about Amazon and monopoly...
ILSR’s Stacy Mitchell recently joined host Sam Seder to talk Amazon and monopoly power on the popular podcast, “The Majority Report.” Sparked by Stacy’s recent...
Amazon is framing itself as a boon for entrepreneurs, but in fact the company’s increasing dominance of the consumer goods market is having a profoundly...
ILSR’s Stacy Mitchell is the guest on the March 24 episode of “This Is Hell,” a longform interview podcast from Chicago’s WNUR. In the episode,...
Monopolies are strangling competition and cutting off opportunity. In this feature for The Nation, we show how to stop them. … Read More
Stacy’s Mitchell’s cover feature for The Nation looks at how Amazon is a radically new kind of monopoly with ambitions that dwarf those of earlier empires,...
Taking on Amazon. It’s a big subject. But in this episode of Rep. Keith Ellison’s podcast, “We the People,” ILSR’s Stacy Mitchell and Lina Khan...
In this talk, Stacy Mitchell discusses the findings of ILSR’s groundbreaking report on Amazon, and what the company’s growing dominance means for small businesses, jobs,...
The briefing, which was held by the House Judiciary Committee Democrats and the Congressional Progressive Caucus, comes as there is increasing concern about the power...