Statement from Stacy Mitchell, Co-Director of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, regarding Jeff Bezos’ testimony before the House Antitrust Subcommittee. … Read More
In this report, we find that Amazon is exploiting its gatekeeper power to impose ever-larger fees on third-party sellers. … Read More
In Slate, Ron Knox explains that the beer industry is not the craft brewery utopia we like to imagine. Misguided policies have allowed monopolies to...
Amazon has a long history of using its monopoly power to squeeze its workers and the small businesses that depend on its platform. Now, under...
In The American Prospect, ILSR Legal Fellow Shaoul Sussman and Zephyr Teachout explain how Amazon’s new patent solidifies the company’s aims to consolidate its power...
After Congress authorized a second round of PPP funding in May, news stories suggested that the big banks, like JP Morgan Chase and Bank of...
ILSR Co-Director Stacy Mitchell released the following statement in response to the news that the European Union will file antitrust charges against Amazon, regarding the...
Stacy Mitchell talks to Canadian national radio about how to understand Amazon’s structural power and its consequences, and about the growing momentum in Congress to...
Wall Street-funded delivery services are taking a huge bite out of restaurants’ meager revenues. Restaurant owners are desperate and furious — and cities are pushing...
Host Jess Del Fiacco talks with Kennedy Smith, Senior Researcher with ILSR’s Independent Business initiative, about efforts at the state and local level to support...
We are building an ongoing list of grant and loan programs that can help small, locally owned businesses weather the COVID-19 pandemic. … Read More
Stacy Mitchell provides the House Judiciary Committee with recommendations for future antitrust legislation. … Read More
ILSR Legal Fellow Shaoul Sussman and co-author Hal Singer discredit the idea that all businesses behave like Amazon.… Read More
ILSR Senior Researcher Ron Knox explains how a regulatory system that is supposed to protect the food supply has instead led to giant slaughterhouses rampant...
Nilay Patel, host of the Vergecast, interviewed Co-Director Stacy Mitchell on the pandemic’s disruptions to our supply chains, the importance of competition, and the growing...