" He wondered how many lectures and presentations he had sat through with economists "telling us open markets are wonderful, everybody benefits from open markets.
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Sarah Miller is the deputy director of the Open Markets Institute, and Austin Frerick is a fellow at the Open Markets Institute and a former House congressional candidate.
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Matt Stoller, policy director at Open Markets Institute, said that it's been publicly reported that Open Markets receives money from Soros, but denied any knowledge of Soros funding Freedom From Facebook.
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Matt Stoller is a fellow on the Open Markets team.
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The United States model of open markets is under challenge.
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Tell the administration and Congress open markets and end tariffs.
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Sandeep Vaheesan is legal director of the Open Markets Institute.
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Farmers need certainty and open markets to make ends meet.
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Mr. Stoller is a fellow at the Open Markets Institute.
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I raised my own money from different foundations for Open Markets.
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Sarah Miller is the deputy director of the Open Markets Institute.
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We (farmers) don't want direct payments … we just want open markets.
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Matt Stoller is the policy director at the Open Markets Institute.
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Mr. Buck and Mr. Vaheesan work for the Open Markets Institute.
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Matthew Buck is a reporter-researcher with the Open Markets Institute.
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I believe in the principles of free trade and open markets.
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Sally Hubbard is director of strategic enforcement at the Open Markets Institute.
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Economic officials in China insist their country remains committed to open markets.
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Mr Trump could work through the World Trade Organisation to open markets.
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Farmers are keen on the open markets that have benefited them greatly.
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Lynn's Open Markets team has been critical of tech giants' growing dominance.
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Less open markets will stunt competition, crimping productivity growth and living standards.
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These start-ups are private companies without open markets for their shares.
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Lina Khan is director of legal policy with the Open Markets Institute.
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If successful, the pact could eventually open markets from Australia to India.
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What is the "conservative position" on immigration: tall walls or open markets?
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After all, economic theory taught that open markets produced the greatest total wealth.
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At Open Markets, we started with the same questions that most Americans have.
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Open Markets: What is the best way to improve competition in modern capitalism?
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The Economist traditionally has favoured open markets and the free movement of capital.
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The Open Markets Institute and Roosevelt Institute have sketched out new antimonopoly policies.
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And we will also want to ensure open markets for each other's products.
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Mr Abe, a tireless traveller, promotes open markets even as America turns inward.
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He championed free trade and open markets, setting the tone for the week.
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Phil Cruz's parents are pork sellers in one of the big Manila open markets.
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"The United States must continue to support open markets," Grillo said in the statement.
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The central bank's Federal Open Markets Committee is expected to keep interest rates unchanged.
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Each certificate has a unique identification number and can be traded on open markets.
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Arab states could do with more supranational integration to open markets and spur growth.
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It's about open markets based on fairness, on fair competition under the same conditions.
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The overall picture is that all of the G7 members have very open markets.
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Barry Lynn, who headed the organization's Open Markets antimonopoly initiative, seized on her application.
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Don't forget the flip side of open markets—it encourages others to invest here.
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At the same time it would open markets abroad in autos, services and agriculture.
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The ascension began in the late 1970s with a move to more open markets.
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Until recently, Lynn served as the director of the Open Markets Program at the foundation.
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This will open markets for farmers and workers, increase investment, and lead to greater prosperity.
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Mr Xi professes to support open markets, but runs an economy built on mercantilist pillars.
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I am a member of the team that was let go, the Open Markets program.
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The EVFTA is the EU's first comprehensive open markets deals with a developing Asian country.
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China has repeatedly promised to open markets and grant more equal treatment to foreign companies.
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The Federal Reserve's Open Markets Committee and staff appear to discount these imbalances almost entirely.
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The Federal Open Markets Committee will meet Tuesday and Wednesday to consider interest rates hikes.
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The U.S. is pushing for more open markets and the elimination of intellectual property theft.
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The Open Markets Institute recommends Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp be split into three different companies.
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Of the three, only Powell is a voting member of the Federal Open Markets Committee.
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"The social consensus on open markets has however been weakening in recent years," he said.
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Are we really going to open markets to places like Iran and North Korea now?
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America's trading partners simply took advantage of the country's open markets and its growing purchasing power.
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"This could be a HUGE deal," Matt Stoller, a fellow at the Open Markets Institute, tweeted.
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We seek a level playing field, open markets, fair trade and a respect for our values.
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However, employers will continue to wonder if their workers are equipped to navigate such open markets.
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It has always mixed bursts of assertiveness with promises to open markets and protect foreign firms.
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"America's health care crisis is brought you by monopoly," Open Markets policy director Phil Longman said.
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We should embrace liberal principles on free trade and open markets, anti-paternalism and human rights.
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Open Markets will feature The Economist's articles on these topics as well as contributions by outsiders.
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The news came Wednesday when minutes from the Federal Open Markets Committee's March meeting were released.
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But foreign industry fears those plans could boost protectionism and stymie pledges to open markets wider.
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The New York Times first reported that Schmidt complained to Slaughter about the Open Markets post.
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The groups involved include MoveOn, Demand Progress, the Open Markets Institute and the Content Creators Coalition.
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Today's Open Markets Institute and Village Capital Conference, discussing whether monopolies are crushing entrepreneurship, features Sens.
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To ensure that Google would continue funding New America, Slaughter axed the entire Open Markets program.
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As expected, the Federal Open Markets Committee decided last week to raise its benchmark interest rate.
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The Milos restaurants are sleek and airy, reminiscent of open markets, with a minimalist Mediterranean style.
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She ultimately decided, with her board's signoff, to help establish Open Markets as a separate nonprofit.
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The move symbolised Argentina's pivot back to open markets and liberal economic reforms under his rule.
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I also look for open markets and come back with a lot of fruits and vegetables.
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The United States has always considered this to be antithetical to free trade and open markets.
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"People aren't afraid of them anymore" said Matt Stoller, a fellow at the Open Markets Institute.
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A couple days later, Slaughter told Lynn that Open Markets and New America would be parting ways.
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For example, government negotiations to open markets abroad are likely to decrease the risk of the firm.
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The same went for global trade, where she warned against protectionist instincts that might endanger open markets.
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Many are scared to leave their homes, shop in open markets or take their children to school.
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Each day, investors set aside morals and ideals when trying to make money on the open markets.
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"We applaud both governments for working together constructively to reduce trade barriers and open markets," Hinrichs said.
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Open Markets will not accept funding from any for-profit corporations, the group said in its announcement.
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But the "possible improvement in trade and exports and open markets" make the suffering "worthwhile," he added.
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Google officials — including its parent company's executive chairman, Eric Schmidt — had complained about Open Markets multiple times.
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Open Markets Institute Fellow Matt Stoller breaks down the latest developments in the Hong Kong NBA scandal.
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History has shown that stable democracies best guarantee political stability, open markets and protection of human rights.
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With one-in-three acres planted for export, America's farmers depend vitally on trade and open markets.
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Markets expect the policymaking Federal Open Markets Committee to approve another quarter-point increase at the Sept.
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The G-2900 leaders should send a strong signal for open markets as they meet in Hamburg.
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But all of them understand the value of open markets to growth and progress for every nation.
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So Open Markets is built to fight the environment of law and regulation that currently promotes unrestrained monopoly.
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Open Markets, which is now raising funds as an independent organization, says the correspondence is a cautionary tale.
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"This is a big deal and long overdue," tweeted Matt Stoller, a fellow at the Open Markets Institute.
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Much of the recent antitrust pressure has come from progressives like the Open Markets Institute or Elizabeth Warren.
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Open Markets' Matt Stoller, who can transition seamlessly from policy wonk to Twitter thug, sat near the front.
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Open Markets: James Wilson (25, Australia), Adrien Book (25, France), Avital Balwit (20, America), Rigvedang Saini (17, Singapore).
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"The decision will promote free and open markets, while protecting the independence of the U.S. courts," Gottlieb added.
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Farmers are no longer forced into disastrous socialist collectives or banned from selling their crops in open markets.
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But – then as now -- they took America's hugely expensive military protection and its open markets as their birthright.
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Groups like the Open Markets Institute have condemned the ways in which large corporations have hijacked our democracy.
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The Fed's policymaking arm, the Federal Open Markets Committee, will meet Tuesday and Wednesday for its monthly huddle.
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President Trump is taking action on trade policy to open markets so that American farmers can compete globally.
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Henceforth, tariffs would be negotiated via deals with foreign governments, giving export industries a stake in open markets.
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A deal could open markets and help push up the economy in the midst of his reelection campaign.
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Lynn and his team have since gone independent, launching a stand-alone group called the Open Markets Institute.
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Volcker, as vice chair, was among the hawks on the Federal Open Markets Committee pushing for major action.
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Last year, the APEC leaders' statement affirmed a commitment to open markets and fighting "all forms of protectionism".
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"We want open markets, free markets but we have to convince the U.S. administration," Altmaier told German television.
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Several state attorneys general and my organization, the Open Markets Institute, had filed briefs in favor of the plaintiffs.
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Trump said on social media on Monday that the USMCA will "greatly open markets" for American farmers and manufacturers.
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Many invest heavily in human capital and R[space]&[space]D and actively promote open markets around the world.
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Fighting for fair trade and open markets carries some risk, and might in the short term deliver some pain.
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This is because Germany, more than anyone else, relies on open markets, free trade and cross-border business models.
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Barry Lynn and his Open Markets team researched economic competition issues as part of the New America think tank.
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Extremists have targeted large sporting events, theatres, open markets, aviation services, transportation systems, and public venues where people congregate.
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Open markets and increased trade are conducive to promoting democracy and liberal values and to ensure growth and prosperity.
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Merkel said she and Modi had discussed open markets and free and fair trade during their meeting in Berlin.
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In 2016, Left said the original ruling marked a step backwards for fair and open markets in Hong Kong.
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Trump's tweet comes as the Fed's rate-setting Federal Open Markets Committee begins its first policy meeting of 2020.
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"I think it's a very good idea," said Sally Hubbard, director of enforcement strategy at the Open Markets Institute.
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If you like this newsletter, I suggest you also subscribe to Big, a newsletter by Open Markets' Matt Stoller.
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Fed officials expect increased economic growth and creeping inflation, as revealed in the Federal Open Markets Committee's latest minutes.
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Those in favour of open markets and societies need to see off the threat posed by those who value neither.
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Meanwhile, the National Foreign Trade Council said the talks should create more open markets and better rules, not new restrictions.
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They also want to demonstrate their embrace of open markets as the United States turns inwards under President Donald Trump.
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And Khosrowshahi is trying to open markets — from the UK to Italy — where regulators beat back Uber's first cowboy wave.
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Turkey was also an example of the benign influence of the European Union, which encouraged open markets and civil rights.
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True, the country depends upon open markets, embraces some global institutions and wants to be close to America (see Banyan).
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A new Open Markets Institute report sheds light on the extent of this problem for the first time in decades.
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"Open markets and a competitive economic system are the pillars on which the prosperity of our economies rests," Weidmann said.
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The Federal Open Markets Committee hiked rates by 25 basis points in December, its first rate hike in a decade.
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"Apple doesn't have the same broad monopoly power that Google and Facebook have," Open Markets legal director Sandeep Vaheesan said.
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Since Trump became president, the EU has focused on championing open markets and sealing trade accords with like-minded countries.
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Among those joining CWA in signing the letter were Public Knowledge, the Open Markets Institute, Consumer Reports and Common Cause.
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"Increasingly, the party is moving away from that," Matt Stoller, a fellow at the Open Markets Institute, told The Hill.
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Lynn ran a team, Open Markets, that researched competition policy and was increasingly critical of giants like Google and Amazon.
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"Facebook's business model is what's causing all of these scandals," said Matt Stoller, a fellow at the Open Markets Institute.
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The event is being hosted by HuffPost, the Storm Lake Times, the Open Markets Institute and the Iowa Farmers Union.
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The planned changes come as Brazil looks to open markets while much of the world appears to be turning inwards.
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She joined his team in 2017, as Mr. Lynn's program was becoming independent and was renamed the Open Markets Institute.
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No change in interest rates is expected to come from the Federal Open Markets Committee meeting on Tuesday and Wednesday.
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American companies of all sizes rely on open markets to thrive in what is today a ferociously-competitive global economy.
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Lynn says the independent Open Markets team will be run much the same way, spurning the traditional think tank model.
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Now, Peterson is a pro-trade outfit; advocating for open markets is a large part of the reason it exists.
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Franken delivered the speech Wednesday at an event hosted by the Open Markets Institute, a new nonprofit focused on competition.
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A coalition of groups that includes Demand Progress, Move On, Citizens Against Monopoly and the Open Markets Institute sees an opportunity.
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"It's a complete disaster from a regulatory perspective," said Barry Lynn, executive director of antitrust advocacy group the Open Markets Institute.
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A lot of your constituents have been dealing with this because their products trade on the open markets in real time.
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Lynn looked after a department at the foundation called Open Markets, which has questioned the power of tech giants, including Google.
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After a titanic ideological struggle encompassing the decades after the second world war, open markets and Western liberal democracy reigned supreme.
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He may want to tear down tariffs and quotas out of a yearning for open markets and lower prices for consumers.
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It made similar injections on Thursday and Friday, bringing the weekly open markets net injection to 310 billion yuan ($46.54 billion).
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As far as free trade and open markets go, Merkel told the industrialists her government was determined to fight for them.
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Sandeep Vaheesan, Open Markets Institute 'Apple created the iPhone, Apple created the entity that can use apps, has it monopolized anything?'
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News that the People's Bank of China conducted its biggest daily open markets operation in three years failed to lift sentiment.
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"This is horrible for competition," the director of the New America Foundation's Open Markets program Barry Lynn told the New Republic.
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Courts, too, are beginning to come around, thanks to the tireless efforts of nonprofit groups dedicated to inclusive and open markets.
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The Federal Open Markets Committee raised benchmark interest rates a quarter of a point, to between 1.25 percent and 1.5 percent.
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Lynn has worked at New America on economic concentration issues since 2002, and his Open Markets Initiative dates back to 2009.
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On another level, Open Markets is the first significant casualty of a broader battle between Silicon Valley and the Democratic Party.
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This has always strained credulity, but these organizations will undoubtedly receive new scrutiny in the wake of the Open Markets fiasco.
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Groups involved range from the anti-concentration Open Markets Institute to broader progressive groups like Demand Progress and MoveOn Civic Action.
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He has spent decades railing at other countries that, he claims, hurt America by taking advantage of our relatively open markets.
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In January, China's State Council released a document on measures to promote fair, open markets and to attract more foreign investment.
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EU lawmakers broadly agreed EU-UK ties should promote as open markets as possible, but this had to be rules-based.
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Apple, Mars, and Unilever are among companies that have said complying with the Paris agreement would open markets and generate jobs.
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The Federal Open Markets Committee raised benchmark interest rates a quarter of a point, to between 28500 percent and 6900 percent.
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"It's incredibly dangerous," said Matt Stoller, an economist at the Open Markets Institute, a think tank critical of Amazon's growing power.
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Matt Stoller, a research fellow at Open Markets Institute, an anti-monopoly advocacy group, shared the lobbying groups' statements on Twitter.
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"The new caucus is an encouraging and important sign that members of Congress are again becoming interested in recovering America's rich anti-monopoly tradition," Lina Khan, the Director of Legal Policy at the Open Markets Institute (formerly New America's Open Markets Initiative) which has been meeting with Khanna and other members of Congress about anti-trust, told VICE News.
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We try to understand our corporate and banking institutions not because we oppose commerce, but because we support commerce in open markets.
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The NY Fed, which conducts open markets for the Fed system, also said the amount offered for term repo operations for Oct.
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The Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC), the Fed's policymaking arm, finds itself at a difficult crossroads during its two-day October meeting.
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It's because energy markets are, for the most part, open markets that can only be marginally influenced by politicians and their policies.
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The Federal Open Markets Committee also said it would await "for the time being" further evidence of continued progress toward its objective.
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Open Markets looks at what has gone wrong with capitalism in advanced economies—and, more importantly, what can be done about it.
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Neither currently has a vote on the Federal Open Markets Committee, but their words could provide clues to the Fed's next move.
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Earlier this year, McIntyre oversaw an effort to allow grid-level energy storage technology to buy and sell electricity on open markets.
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The event is being hosted by the Huffington Post, the Storm Lake Times, the Open Markets Institute and the Iowa Farm Bureau.
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"Google kicked us out of because we said that they're a monopoly," says Matt Stoller, a fellow on Lynn's Open Markets team.
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The Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC) is widely expected to cut rates by 27.6 basis points for the third time this year.
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"The U.S. approach incorporates the reality of the global energy mix," he added, arguing "innovation and open markets" will drive emissions reductions.
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When it becomes an excuse for dodging responsibilities while enjoying the benefits of open markets, it endangers both social harmony and openness.
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Lynn's Open Markets work on tech and competition is seen as groundbreaking and academics were quick to blast Google after his ouster.
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But Powell and the Federal Open Markets Committee have slashed rates even more dramatically since the coronavirus presented a risk of recession.
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The Open Markets Institute used data from industry market research firm IBISWorld to create its Monday report, which is one of three.
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She sits on the board of directors of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and on the advisory board of the Open Markets Institute.
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Arlen Specter, Toomey served as president of the Club for Growth, the conservative group created to support open markets and oppose regulations.
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Wu is on the advisory board of the Open Markets Institute, an influential group that has called for the breakup of Amazon.
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Slaughter has disputed the Times story, insisting that the decision to part ways with Open Markets had nothing to do with Google.
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We won't have conclusive evidence that wage growth is transitioning to a faster pace before the December Federal Open Markets Committee meeting.
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That's how we forged a Trans-Pacific Partnership to open markets, protect workers and the environment, and advance American leadership in Asia.
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In May it ordered that cattle, including water buffalo, may no longer be sold in open markets for the express purpose of slaughter.
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Google contributes significant funding to New America, and the company was unhappy to see Open Markets cheering on a recent European Union fine.
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The aggressive trade policies have isolated a swath of Republicans committed to a more traditional GOP position of free trade and open markets.
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It used to be the West was confident enough in its own innovations and ideas that it would accept competition in open markets.
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The Open Markets Institute, where I work, recently published Volume II of America's Concentration Crisis, presenting troubling data on health care market concentration.
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We must continue to expand and open markets, protect the Renewable Fuel Standard and allow Iowa products to be sold across the globe.
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That's how we forged a trans pacific partnership to open markets, and protect workers and the environment, and advance American leadership in Asia.
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Editor's note: The story has been corrected to indicate a group filing reply comments is led by Public Knowledge (not Open Markets Institute).
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Recent statements by Federal Open Markets Committee members have led us to anticipate two or three 0.25 percentage point rate hikes this year.
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But on Wednesday, U.S. President Donald Trump and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker agreed to engage in talks that would open markets.
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A spokesman said that it provided a $180,000 two-year grant to the Open Markets Institute last fall for work around web platforms.
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As for railing against U.S. tariffs and calling for open markets, he should know the comparative advantage offered by free trade is mirage.
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I'd be astonished if the outcome of the Federal Open Markets Committee meeting is anything other than a 25-basis-point rate hike.
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The data comes a day before the Federal Reserve's Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC) meets to consider the future of U.S. monetary policy.
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Mercosur committed to more open markets in the face of a rising tide of protectionism and offered EU firms a potential head start.
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Elected in November on an open-markets platform, Macri has lifted trade and currency controls, triggering a steep fall in the local peso.
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In a statement released late on Saturday, Fontana said weekly open markets must be halted as well as most offices and construction sites.
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Republican lawmakers blasted the announcement, underlining how far Mr. Trump has strayed from the party's traditional orthodoxy of embracing free and open markets.
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The email suggested that the entire Open Markets team — nearly 10 full-time employees and unpaid fellows — would be exiled from New America.
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Lina Khan, director of legal policy at the antimonopoly Open Markets Institute, describes Amazon as the 21st-century equivalent of 19th-century railroads.
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Stoller is now a fellow at the Open Markets Institute, an organization that recently advocated for the breakup of the major tech firms.
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"This is grass-roots democracy," said Barry Lynn of Open Markets Institute, a Washington think tank and coalition member focused on antitrust issues.
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"Open markets, trade, division of labor has worked extremely well for the poorer countries," she told Reuters in an interview late on Monday.
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If Donald Trump's campaign and victory taught us nothing else, it is that the conservative base's fealty to open markets is paper thin.
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NGUMBO NJOROGENairobi, Kenya Regarding the declining profits of multinational companies ("In retreat", January 28th), is this not a natural progression of liberal, open markets?
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China will further reduce energy intensity, open markets to more foreign investment, and somehow force pesky local governments to stop running up bad debts.
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Mr Xi prises open markets, but many of China's own remain closed—and where foreigners may operate, the fear is of technology being stolen.
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But challenging America would require open markets, transparent financial institutions and the rule of law—all of which is difficult for an authoritarian regime.
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Two days later, Mr Lynn was told that New America and Open Markets would be parting ways, and was given two months to leave.
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"When the king expresses displeasure, everyone knows how to interpret it," says Zephyr Teachout, a law professor and fellow at the Open Markets programme.
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In a worst-case scenario, investor liquidity by means of SPVs prevents overvalued companies from achieving a valuation correction in the efficient open markets.
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On Friday, EU and Mercosur concluded two decades of talks, committing to more open markets in the face of a rising tide of protectionism.
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This will open markets for farmers and workers increase investment and lead to greater prosperity in both the United States and the European Union.
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The bank's Federal Open Markets Committee said last week that recent economic data had "strengthened" the case for a hike before the year ends.
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"The association advocates open markets and insists on recognition by the EU of equivalence for relevant Swiss laws," the SBA said in a statement.
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There's also the Open Markets Institute, a think tank founded last year that is targeting major monopolized industries with detailed studies and policy proposals.
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U.S. government debt yields rose Tuesday during the first day of a Federal Open Markets Committee meeting and after better than expected economic data.
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Stoller, the fellow at the Open Markets Institute, said he'd like to see candidates push even harder on companies like Facebook, Google and Amazon.
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The central bank's Federal Open Markets Committee will meet Tuesday and Wednesday, followed by a press conference from Federal Reserve Board Chairwoman Janet Yellen.
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The FCA said it was committed to open markets, but had not yet decided whether to recpirocate by restricting trading of shares in Britain.
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We support agreements that benefit American workers, lead to open markets in emerging technologies, strongly protect intellectual property and grow jobs here at home.
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Ironically, Open Markets may have been a victim of its own success: Tech companies are getting jumpy now that they're coming under the microscope.
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Most precious of all are the principles that really made America great: global rules, open markets, free speech, respect for allies and due process.
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They are instead working out which barriers will need to be reinstated between two partners that once enjoyed open markets and friction-free trade.
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The team includes Matt Stoller, a longtime Open Markets fellow who has focused his writing — and sometimes pugilistic Twitter persona — on the monopoly issue.
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The Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC) said it would cut interest rates by 85033 percentage points to a 1.75 to 2 percent baseline range.
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The global economy is in woeful need of fresh capital investment, and generally companies invest only in a climate of free an open markets.
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But as a believer in free, open markets the dumping of government subsidized products (steel from China for example) is disruptive to market structure.
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For decades, the debate was between largely unified Western nations backing a world vision focused on open markets and strong security institutions like NATO.
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He was doing research related to fertilizer, open markets and local food production when he came across the tariff tracker and its errant entry.
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Hammond said today: We believe that free trade and open markets are good for prosperity, good for the protection of jobs in this economy.
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An aide familiar with Warren's thinking told VICE News that the expulsion of Lynn and Open Markets "raises a lot of questions" for Warren.
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To avoid such conflicts, limitations have been imposed in other industries, such as railways and banking, points out Lina Khan of the Open Markets Institute.
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A deal would be a very strong message worldwide that this escalation can be broken, and that free and open markets can have a future.
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Subramanian said India would have to demonstrate a commitment to open markets and do more to liberalize trade and investment without worrying about the costs.
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Sally Hubbard is director of strategic enforcement at the Open Markets Institute and a former assistant attorney general in the New York AG Antitrust Bureau.
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Notably, instead of issuing additional shares, T-Mobile says shares needed to meet the needs of the program will be purchased on the open markets.
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New technology and open markets were supposed to spread enlightenment and prosperity, but many people no longer expect to live better than their parents did.
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The other advocacy groups behind the campaign are Citizens Against Monopoly, Content Creators Coalition, Jewish Voice for Peace, Mpower Change, Open Markets Institute and SumOfUs.
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Dreaming of "open trade and open markets" In 2013, Clinton addressed Brazilian bank Banco Itau and spoke of increasing international trade in the Western Hemisphere.
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OPEN markets have lowered prices and raised living standards for millions of people but a new tit-for-tat trade war now threatens that progress.
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The EU and Mercosur concluded two decades of talks on Friday, committing to more open markets in the face of a rising tide of protectionism.
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Trump's rise may have been the direct impetus for this shift, but most of the ideas can be traced back to the Open Markets team.
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"If we would be able to agree on lower tariffs instead of higher ones we would be able to agree on free and open markets."
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There is a marked difference between favourable globalisation and open markets, and the narrow economic fruits of poor governance, weak rule of law and corruption.
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Eight members of the Federal Open Markets Committee, which set Fed interest rates, projected two more hikes this year, while five expected just one more.
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Stoller characterized Open Markets' dismissal as an overt example of corporate pull, but he said companies have always had subtle ways of influencing think tanks.
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"Arms dealers use secret villas, and homes and underground sites for selling weapons since open markets for weapons disappeared some time ago," the researcher said.
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Farm industry groups have repeatedly said that while the aid helps, what they really want are open markets so they can sell their produce abroad.
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Countries confirmed a commitment to eventually close all domestic ivory markets and agreed on a consensus to focus their scrutiny on any remaining open markets.
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The Open Markets program at New America and its executive director, Barry Lynn, are well-known and tireless critics of Big Tech and corporate monopolies.
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Protectionism was a defining theme of the populist presidential campaign in which Mr. Trump gleefully rebuffed the longstanding Republican embrace of free and open markets.
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It should be no surprise that authoritarian powers are not good at making friends, particularly with democracies, which favor open markets and freedom of speech.
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In others, America's federal electricity regulator is trying to open markets to storage, but the details of how that will work in practice are unclear.
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"Investors saw through Lyft, and they saw through Uber as well," said Matt Stoller, a fellow at the Open Markets Institute, a Washington think tank.
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Monetary policy is decided by the Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC), which consists of the Fed board and a rotating group of regional Fed presidents.
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Matt Stoller is a fellow at the Open Markets Institute and the author of "Goliath," an analytical history of monopoly power in the United States.
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Underwriting Europe's security and offering large and open markets to European goods and services are excessively costly legacy issues the U.S. can no longer afford.
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Mr. Thompson also called Mr. Zuckerberg's comments on trust "terrifyingly naïve," echoing a speech he gave on Tuesday at the Open Markets Initiative in Washington.
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"Trump seems to have ignited backlash against the backlash to globalization, which ends up with more rallying around free trade and open markets," Freund says.
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The administration should also look for new ways to open markets and advance the high standards that are critical to economic progress in the 21st century.
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The U.S. deficit with China has prompted President Donald Trump to threaten protectionist actions, but Britain is taking the opposite tack, hoping for more open markets.
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Ryan even invoked Trump's name, saying even Trump is for "good deals," but Ryan qualified that statement by adding a more robust defense for open markets.
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Thilo Brodtmann, head of the VDMA, responded on Monday by saying that functioning competition and open markets are essential for the future of the machinery industry.
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The U.S. has been a consistent defender of free and open markets, but this time it is resorting to protectionism that will not improve American competitiveness.
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The Federal Open Markets Committee, the Fed's policymaking arm, said slowing economic growth was "likely transitory" and expected economic growth to expand at a "moderate" pace.
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Formerly known as the Open Markets program, the newly independent team has been on the front lines of the push for stricter antitrust regulation for years.
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Barry Lynn, head of New America's Open Markets program, thinks the EU's higher level of scrutiny is has already caught the attention of some U.S. policymakers.
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I do not expect the Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC) to anticipate the new administration's policies, so I anticipate little change in its medium-term outlook.
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In Germany, opposition to TTIP may morph into a more widespread resistance to trade and open markets, for which there is still just about a majority.
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From Reagan through Obama, five Presidents from both major parties shared a commitment to more open markets and borders and, to a varying extent, cultural exchange.
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Barry Lynn, the head of the Open Markets Institute who has raised concerns about Amazon's size and influence, called for an investigation into the HQ2 search.
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Ironically, the sale of state-owned companies to the private sector, more open markets, and capitalist policies made India a net exporter of food by 85033.
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Several members of the Fed's Federal Open Markets Committee, which sets U.S. monetary policy, boosted how much they expected the U.S. economy to grow in 2202.
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"We have confirmed our commitment to the rule of law, free trade and open markets in our region," Turnbull told reporters at a joint press conference.
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But it appears the nail in the coffin was when Open Markets praised the $2.7 billion antitrust fine the European Union levied against Alphabet in June.
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" In sharp contrast, the Business Roundtable says on its website, "Open markets for international trade and investment are essential for supporting U.S. economic growth and jobs.
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Investors were still expecting the Federal Open Markets Committee to increase U.S. overnight interest rates later on Wednesday at the conclusion of its June policy meeting.
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It should come up with a serious agenda to combat what Matt Stoller of the Open Markets Institute calls the "full-on crisis" in rural America.
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"The long-term interests of consumers include product quality, variety and innovation — factors best promoted through both a robust competitive process and open markets," she wrote.
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In competitive, open markets, incumbent actors cannot prevent challenges from more nimble competitors, armed with new products or more efficient ways of organizing the production process.
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Sally Hubbard, director of enforcement at the Open Markets Institute, an organization backed by groups advocating fbreaking up Big Tech, said it would show they're accountable.
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The deal would be an aggressive and, some analysts say, risky foray by Walmart into one of the world's last great open markets for online retailing.
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In their comments, the two investors offered a strong defense of open markets, free trade and the United States as a great place to do business.
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Several members of the Fed's Federal Open Markets Committee, which sets U.S. monetary policy, boosted how much they expected the U.S. economy to grow in 28500.
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Yet today's Europeans take peace, open markets and open borders for granted and fret about bureaucracy, immigration, a loss of national identity and remote unaccountable rulers.
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The first stage of the accord will open markets up to about $7 billion in U.S. agricultural products, and Japan will reduce or eliminate some tariffs.
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Germany managed to rescue some of the previously common G20 language supporting free trade and open markets in a separate document adopted by policymakers in Baden-Baden.
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Matt Stoller, a fellow at the Open Markets Institute, sees the proposed positions as toothless, a sign that the current FTC isn't capable of reining in Facebook.
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Here, at a time of global uncertainty and anxiety for capitalists, was the world's most powerful communist presenting himself as a champion of globalisation and open markets.
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Our society's failure to adhere to liberal tenets of open markets and a contest of ideas imposes painful costs on the economy and on working-class Americans.
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The effort involves a coalition of progressive groups spearheaded by Demand Progress, Citizens Against Monopoly, and its affiliate Open Markets Institute, a vocal critic of Big Tech.
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The effort involves a coalition of progressive groups spearheaded by Demand Justice, Citizens Against Monopoly, and its affiliate Open Markets Institute, a vocal critic of Big Tech.
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The Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC), the Fed's policymaking arm, finds itself at a difficult crossroads ahead of the Tuesday start of its two-day October meeting.
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He also said China has figured out how to use the open markets and economies of the West against Western countries through its influence on Chinese companies.
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Market focus is largely attuned to the Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC) meeting next week, with markets pricing in a 25 basis point cut to interest rates.
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Most Americans would live in areas where power generators compete on open markets and transmission is regionally coordinated, which could lead to further cooperation and grid linkage.
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As the Open Markets Institute's Matt Stolller points out in an insightful tweet storm, however, the shortcomings of Facebook's privacy rules are only part of the story.
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The Federal Open Markets Committee is packed with Ph.D. economists, nearly all of whom went to the same schools and believe in the same demand-side orthodoxy.
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The left-leaning team at the New America Foundation's Open Markets program has been pushing this issue hard for years, but has recently started to get traction.
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There are four things we can do to meet these challenges: Stand up for open markets by breaking down barriers for U.S. producers, companies, workers and consumers.
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And with the NGA Global program, we foster dialogue beyond national borders, helping to make connections that open markets abroad and invite foreign investment here at home.
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Decades of elections and open markets haven't done what they were supposed to do: level the region's financial and social inequality and bring an end to violence.
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Khan previously worked at Open Markets, a Washington, D.C. think tank known for its critical positions on the size and power of companies like Amazon and Google.
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Germany is willing to cooperate with China to combat protectionist and populist trends, and would "strongly welcome" a Chinese defense of open markets at Davos, it said.
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The effort is being led by MoveOn, Demand Progress, Sum of Us, MPower Change, Content Creators Coalition, Citizens against Monopoly, Jewish Voice for Peace and Open Markets.
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Merkel and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed in a phone call on Thursday to work together for free trade and open markets, a German government spokesman said.
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In sum, this relationship is one of shared interests and common values; one based on free trade and open markets and one based on inclusion and diversity.
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It's especially wrong-headed to blame NAFTA for the persistent bilateral deficit since Mexico is one of the most open markets in the world for U.S. exports.
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America demands all sorts of conditions in trade deals: requiring countries to pry open markets, use draconian intellectual property regimes, or give favorable treatment for US corporations.
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According to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, more than half of U.S. exports are to countries where the World Bank has lending programs that help open markets.
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And it's getting worse: The Open Markets Institute report lists four cellphone providers that control 98 percent of the market — Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint.
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Mr. Lynn, who is launching a new stand-alone nonprofit organization with the Open Markets' team to continue their work, challenged Ms. Slaughter's characterization of his approach.
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The organization launched in February and is headed by Sarah Miller, former deputy director of the anti-monopoly think tank Open Markets Institute and an antitrust expert.
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ELSEWHERE ➔ U.S. economy & Federal Reserve: Chairman Jerome Powell and the Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC) said on Wednesday that the central bank will hold interest rates steady.
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Stoller, a fellow at the anti-monopoly Open Markets Institute in Washington, DC, argues that we are in an era where concentrated corporate power once again reigns.
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This year, the Knight Foundation, which focuses on journalism, awarded Open Markets $2 million to study the impact that concentration among technology platforms has on the media.
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This year, the Knight Foundation, which focuses on journalism, awarded Open Markets $2 million to study the impact that concentration among technology platforms has on the media.
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A few years ago, the Federal Reserve decided to have the chair of the Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC) hold a press conference after every other meeting.
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Schaeuble said the adopted list of principles included policy recommendations for example on labor market regulation, but also for international trade and the "importance of open markets".
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"In some sense, [Sanders's] critique is not big enough," Matt Stoller, a fellow at the Open Markets Institute and a vocal part of the left, told me.
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Meanwhile, counterfeit whitening solutions like the one used by Lina and Londy are sold everywhere, from independent beauty shops to open markets, and even in people's homes.
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On Wednesday, The New York Times reported that New America had cut ties with Open Markets and Lynn — reportedly at the request of Alphabet's executive chairman Eric Schmidt.
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Zuck acknowledged that he knew that "Freedom from Facebook," an advocacy group that has ties to the anti-monopoly Open Markets Institute, was behind an anti-Facebook campaign.
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On December 19th its Open Markets Committee (FOMC) delivered its fourth interest-rate increase of 2018, even though financial conditions have tightened to become less supportive of growth.
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Euro zone bond yields opened 1 to 2 basis points lower as markets awaited the outcome of a two-day meeting of the U.S. Federal Open Markets Committee,.
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The Federal Open Markets Committee was set to conclude a two-day policy meeting on Wednesday afternoon, a month after raising rates for the fourth time in 303.
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Ministers from its 11 members issued a joint statement saying that they had agreed on its core elements, and that it demonstrated their "firm commitment to open markets".
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"We anticipate more UK-based startups wanting to move to the U.S. over the next few years for the relative stability and wide open markets," he told CNBC.
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The essay questions and descriptions associated with the five Open Future themes are: Open Markets Essay question: What is the best way to improve competition in modern capitalism?
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For entrepreneurs and others who would like to see more open markets and competition in the People's Republic, there's an absence of domestic pressure on President Xi Jinping.
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The segment is of concern due mainly to the lack of statistical information as assets are not transacted on open markets and may be treated differently across countries.
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The argument is that with fewer shareholders, the company would not be subject to the whims of short sellers as easily as it is on the open markets.
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People who put their faith in fences instead of open markets are going about it the wrong way, European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager told a conference in Copenhagen.
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The central bank's Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC), which sets monetary policy, was widely expected to hold the federal funds rate at a 6900 to 2628 percent range.
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The best and most balanced growth policy, as a country, would reduce barriers, open markets and provide small businesses the tools and incentives to encourage new economic opportunities.
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Khan previously worked at Open Markets, a Washington, D.C. think-tank known for its critical positions of the sheer size and power of companies like Amazon and Google.
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" Warren said the idea that China would more smoothly integrate with the rest of the world based on its economic growth and open markets "has been proven wrong.
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Silicon Valley titans, by contrast, have mostly escaped aggressive federal antitrust enforcement, according to Barry C. Lynn, Director of the Open Markets program at the New America Foundation.
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Ours is a country that prizes merit, rewards risk and stands apart in its commitment to the collective success of open markets and the free flow of capital.
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The two sides finally settled on the phrase "open markets for farmers and workers," which the Europeans say referred only to the bloc's offer to buy American soybeans.
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" Visa said it "routinely engages with governments around the world to promote the value of digital payments and to advocate for open markets, free trade, and global competition.
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"Open markets and free, fair sustainable and inclusive trade is a key focus of our G20 presidency," said Merkel, who will host the G20 in Hamburg next month.
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The debt jumped from $19.8 trillion to $20.1 trillion after Congress suspended the debt ceiling for three months, allowing the Treasury to borrow again on the open markets.
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The European Union and South American bloc Mercosur agreed a free trade treaty on Friday, committing to more open markets in defiance of the rising tide of protectionism.
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"What we are seeing is an erosion of basic principles on which our economy is based — international cooperation, open markets, rules of the game, transparency and predictability," she said.
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After all, his goals for the country and the world are a sharp departure from America's traditional role as an advocate of democracy, human rights, freedom and open markets.
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Elsewhere a 25-year shift towards freedom and open markets has gone into reverse, even as China, soon to be the world's largest economy, shows that dictatorships can thrive.
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Without America to keep its neighbourhood secure and underpin open markets, China could not have reaped such gains from the market-led reforms it launched in the late 1970s.
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In January, even before Mr Trump's inauguration, China's president, Xi Jinping, speaking before the world's elites in Davos, presented his country as a champion of globalism and open markets.
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Hawley's stances have also made him some unexpected friends, such as Matt Stoller, a fellow at anti-monopoly advocacy group Open Markets Institute and vocal part of the left.
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The letter, which is signed by leaders of groups like the Open Markets Institute and Public Knowledge, was addressed to two of the most influential Democratic House lawmakers, Reps.
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The project consists of five themes: Open Borders on migration, Open Ideas on free speech, Open Markets on free trade, Open Society on diversity and Open Progress on technology.
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Assuming a $16 share price — and this could change quickly once the company hits the open markets — here's the projected value of stakes held by key executives and investors.
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"They're becoming central planners of the American economy," Matt Stoller, a fellow at the Open Markets Institute think tank whose research has focused on corruption and monopoly, told me.
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"We hope U.S. enforcers of competition law will learn from and follow this example in both of these cases," Barry Lynn, executive director of the Open Markets Institute, said.
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The nation also lacks several things that drove the U.S. shale boom: open markets that promote competition, a network of small frackers that push innovation and locally available expertise.
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"Open markets and a competitive economic system are the pillars on which the prosperity of our economies rests," Weidmann, who sits on the European Central Bank's Governing Council said.
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Google has acknowledged that Schmidt expressed "displeasure" to Slaughter over Open Markets' criticism of Google's dominant market power in digital advertising, but denied that he called for Lynn's firing.
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Still, it's too early to assess what impact the new pact will have in upholding the agenda of open markets, international cooperation and a rules-based system, he cautioned.
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The Republicans championed open markets and free trade until not so long ago while large sections of the Democratic Party acted as globalisation cheerleaders, led by the Clinton dynasty.
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Under Lynn, Open Markets strenuously warned of the perils of Amazon's growing clout, and pushed the Democratic Party to adopt a harder line on antitrust, with some significant success.
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Broader euro zone bond yields were largely unchanged as the market waited for clarity on the UK's Brexit negotiations and this week's U.S. Federal Reserve Open Markets committee meeting.
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Mercosur members committed to more open markets, in the face of a global tide of protectionism, and offered EU firms a potential head start in a major new market.
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"SCOTUS just immunized tech platforms from effective antitrust scrutiny," tweeted Lina Khan, the Director of Legal Policy at the Open Markets Institute, which supporters harsher enforcement of antitrust law.
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"With Instagram there was a sense they weren't even direct competitors," said Lina Khan, Director of Legal Policy with the Open Markets Institute at a conference earlier this month.
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Together, these actions pose a threat to the two pillars of global democracy and open markets — America and the E.U. — more than anything coming from ISIS or Al Qaeda.
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"We've seen these problems in the past," said Barry Lynn, director of the Open Markets Institute and organizer of the Freedom From Facebook coalition, which Facebook sought to smear.
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Ms. Slaughter told Mr. Lynn that "the time has come for Open Markets and New America to part ways," according to an email from Ms. Slaughter to Mr. Lynn.
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" Rather than using low or negative rates, J.P. Morgan's Frenkel said that governments should focus on implementing other policy instruments, "whether it's fiscal or structural policies, including open markets.
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Some of America's largest corporations rely on the city's open markets, transparent legal system, uncensored internet, modern transport links and business-friendly governance as they access China's vast markets.
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So she left Open Markets at the beginning of this year to lead the American Economic Liberties Project, a new organization dedicated to pushing government to confront corporate concentration.
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Lina Khan, a scholar with the Open Markets Institute, said that the scrutiny on vertical deals would represent a significant shift from previous antitrust policy at the Justice Department.
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The Open Markets Institute argues that monopolies have in the past decade used their clout with both parties to avoid regulation and push policies favorable to them, not Americans.
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The central bank's Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC) said Wednesday it would hold the overnight bank borrowing rate between 1.5 and 1.75 percent through the end of the year.
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Huawei's unlawful business practices are a threat to fair and open markets, as well as to legitimate competition in a tech space that is critical for the global economy.
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Matt Stoller, a fellow at Open Markets Institute and vocal part of the left, told me that Warren's proposal was a "very basic, old-school American approach" to competition.
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"Right now, today, there are 10 fantastic cases that could be brought against Google," says Barry Lynn, the executive director of the Open Markets Institute and a longtime antitrust researcher.
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Emails between New America and Open Markets reviewed by WIRED and others also give greater insight into the way that funding from Google can influence a policy group's internal dynamics.
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The rift dates back to June 27, when Barry Lynn, the director of Open Markets, wrote a 150-word press release celebrating a major antitrust loss for Google in Europe.
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"Whoever wants growth - and I trust this administration will be a growth-friendly one - must be in favor of open markets," Schaeuble told the Wall Street Journal in an interview.
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The same officials boast of open markets but, when Western governments raise specific cases of brutal treatment of foreign firms, blandly reply that they cannot get involved in commercial disputes.
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President Mauricio Macri, an advocate of open markets who has failed to solve Argentina's long-standing economic problems, is expected to lose Sunday's vote to populist-leaning Peronist Alberto Fernandez.
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The poor can snap them up for as little as 50 naira ($0.15) in open markets, where the most popular authors sell tens, or even hundreds, of thousands of copies.
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She recalled the specific fears raised by an EU pact with South Korea, and the predictions that the German car industry would suffer from increased competition and more open markets.
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Even so, "the fact that Google is able to dominate the advertising market is quite dangerous," says Matt Stoller, a fellow at the anti-monopoly advocacy group Open Markets Institute.
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"Although it is a close call, we still expect the (Federal Open Markets Committee) to keep the funds rate unchanged in the remainder of the year," economist Jan Hatzius wrote.
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"The tone of Powell's remarks was considerably more dovish than (the tone) at the Fed's open markets committee meeting in December," said Hisao Matsuura, chief equity strategist at Nomura Securities.
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And that has picked up some of that slack and enabled us particularly in regional Australia to demonstrate that the open markets and trade is actually the key to success.
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Asked about warnings from the World Trade Organization that major economies, like the United States, were becoming increasingly protectionist, Hammond said Britain was committed to free trade and open markets.
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In a emailed statement, Left said the ruling marked a step backwards for fair and open markets in Hong Kong and that the research firm stood by its journalistic integrity.
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Phillip Longman of New America's Open Markets program has been arguing for some years now that Reagan-era shifts in the federal government's attitude toward corporate concentration are to blame.
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Indeed, we have been the star quarterback of the pro-growth team, leading international efforts to open markets, fight protectionism, promote greater international competition and uphold the rule of law.
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The firebrand Peter Navarro rightly pointed out China's lack of reciprocity to free and open markets, which everybody understands, and Japanese and European allies barriers, which nobody wants to admit.
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For 22 years, the city has been rated the world's freest economy under a Wall Street Journal-Heritage Foundation index because of its rule of law and its open markets.
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In his 1973 book "Economics and the Public Purpose," Mr. Galbraith argues "that antitrust is largely irrational," said Barry C. Lynn, who runs the Open Markets program at New America.
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And every time, as The Week's James Pethokoukis pointed out afterward, Ryan simply returns to a 1980s-era message: cut spending, cut taxes, open markets, and all will be well.
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"My read is there's a broad cultural reorganization in process, and it's showing up in corporate PR," Matt Stoller, a fellow at the Open Markets Institute, said in an email.
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A return to protectionism and trade wars would make the world economy poorer over time, and would in particular cripple poorer nations that desperately need open markets for their products.
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Wang added that the two also agreed to open markets to each other, and that China will work to gradually resolve U.S. concerns in the process of further opening-up.
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"The American people designed antimonopoly law so anyone can understand the rules," said Barry Lynn, the executive director of Open Markets, a Washington think-tank that has advocated antitrust reform.
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His Open Markets initiative organized a 2016 conference at which a range of influential figures — including Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts — warned of damaging effects from market consolidation in tech.
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"The political pressure just isn't there to investigate Walmart," says Sally Hubbard, a director at the Open Markets Institute and a former assistant attorney general in New York's antitrust bureau.
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You have to be prepared to take on regulations of your neighbors, the larger neighborhood, international regulation because otherwise you wouldn't be able to have these open markets, free trade.
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"Apple's response to this massive hack of iPhones is 'don't worry, it only affected the Uighur community,'" Matt Stoller, a fellow at the Open Markets Institute, said at the time.
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She has no listed speaking engagements until the March Federal Open Markets Committee meeting - a gathering the Fed had wanted to keep on the cards for a potential rate rise.
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Mr. Xi's defenders argue that he had to consolidate his authority first, before he could make the potentially wrenching decisions needed to open markets and trim bloated state-owned industries.
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Matt Stoller, a fellow at the nonprofit Open Markets Institute, pointed out that Arlington in Northern Virginia is in close proximity to the Pentagon, and New York is...well, New York.
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In a matter of days, Lynn was asked to stop by Slaughter's office and she informed him that the Open Markets Program would no longer be a part of the group.
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Chile, among Latin America's most open economies and the world's top copper exporter, has sought to remain neutral amid the growing tensions, promoting instead the need for open markets and trade.
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While such a plan seems like it would be opposed by the business community in general, Matt Stoller, an antitrust expert with Open Markets Institute, said that isn't necessarily the case.
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The weekend also saw the European Union and South American bloc Mercosur, which Argentina and Brazil are part of, agreeing to a free trade treaty and committing to more open markets.
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"Amazon has built its business strategy and rhetoric around lowering prices for consumers and serving consumers more generally," Lina Khan, a fellow with the Open Markets program, told the New Republic.
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While it won't be hamstrung by protectionist interests in the European Union, its relatively smaller economy, largely open markets and desperation for new deals will weaken its clout in trade negotiations.
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The stakes will be even higher now that the Trans-Pacific deal is going into effect — especially for American farmers who were eager to take advantage of more open markets abroad.
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And despite the strong headline growth, it may give the Federal Reserve a reason to pause its rate-hiking cycle at the Federal Open Markets Committee meeting in December, said Anderson.
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The issue gained new resonance last week, when the New America Foundation fired Barry Lynn and his Open Markets program, the main force in Washington arguing for more aggressive antitrust enforcement.
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Open Markets has been one of the most consistent and vocal opponents of tech consolidation, and its closure is a victory not just for Alphabet, but for Amazon, Facebook, and others.
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The Trump administration's trade agenda is provoking consternation among veterans of previous administrations, who lament the United States' abdication as a vocal promoter of the gains from free and open markets.
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Sally Hubbard, an antitrust expert and tech critic at the Open Markets Institute, said the Dark Sky deal is likely to be small enough to avoid federal reporting requirements by Apple.
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Notably, President Xi followed Mr. Trump's hostile speech with a paean to open markets, fair commerce and the benefits of globalization, ideas that might have been cribbed from previous American presidents.
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Williams, a voting member of the interest rate-setting Federal Open Markets Committee, was long expected to be chosen by the independent Fed board tasked with filling the New York spot.
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" Matt Stoller, one of Silicon Valley's most relentless adversaries in Washington and a fellow at the Open Markets Institute, said of Benioff that his "arguments of late seem to be correct.
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If they lower their tariff barriers and they lower their nontariff barriers and open markets, we will export like crazy, because America has become the most competitive economy in the world.
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Instead, many people "are feeling the effects indirectly" — making it difficult to "finger point," said Matt Stoller, a leading advocate at the Open Markets Institute for breaking up the tech giants.
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"Federal enforcers have a lot of catching up to do," said Sarah Miller, the deputy director of the Open Markets Institute, a nonprofit that is critical of the giant tech companies.
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Why is a place, one that we're paying for — and the reason we're paying is because open markets means open internet, means open for advertising, means open for Google — [challenging us]?
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Six years ago the central estimate among members of the Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC), the body that sets interest rates, was that in the long run, unemployment would settle at 5.6%.
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They clearly want to defend Mr Abe's reputation as a global champion of open markets, but admit that claims that the controls have nothing to do with the court case are unconvincing.
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The market will also keep the debate going on when the U.S. Federal Reserve will hike rates again, after its open markets committee provided no clues in its post-meeting statement Wednesday.
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Now the conventional wisdom that both Britain and America inherited from these eras—support for globalisation, free trade, open markets and multiculturalism—has been challenged again on both sides of the Atlantic.
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The open markets and classically liberal democracy that we defend, and which had seemed to be affirmed in 1989, have been rejected by the electorate first in Britain and now in America.
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"The American and Chinese governments should resolve existing trade frictions in a way that averts a trade war and promotes open markets and fair economic exchange," said AmCham Shanghai President Kenneth Jarrett.
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Market focus is largely attuned to central banks, with the ECB monetary policy meeting coming up on Thursday ahead of the U.S. Federal Reserve's Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC) meeting next week.
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"It's about getting the right balance in the global trading system, so that we can have the benefits of open markets while being properly and appropriately protected from unfair practices," he said.
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And while some American multinationals favour open markets, plenty of smaller businesses may well support a little protectionism if it helps them compete with big-box stores crammed with cheap Chinese tat.
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The index—published annually by the Wall Street Journal and think tank the Heritage Foundation—judges economic freedom on four key pillars: rule of law, limited government, regulatory efficiency and open markets.
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"Nobody from Facebook has contacted us, so we do not have plans to meet with them this week," Sarah Miller, deputy director of the Open Markets Institute, said in a phone interview.
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With the September Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC) meeting rapidly approaching, the attitude of some Federal Reserve officials has begun to shift to a slightly more accommodative or certainly less aggressive tone.
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At the same time, Trump's positioning against free trade and open markets should trouble employers and employees who believe that trade agreements with our allies help expand economic growth into the future.
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While retaliatory duties between the world's two largest economies are a global worry, they are especially alarming for Asia — a region where economic prosperity has been synonymous with exports and open markets.
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Russia's biggest retailers have for some years been looking to expand in the vast but sparsely populated Siberian market, which is mostly served by local chains, pop-up shops and open markets.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed in a phone call on Thursday to work together for free trade and open markets, a German government spokesman said.
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But you still have many, many, many more companies that are on their way, that want to make it into the market, and that need open markets for the incentive to innovate.
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Several major acquisitions have helped Google and Facebook on their way to unprecedented dominance over the advertising supply chain, antitrust analysts argued at the Open Markets Institute forum in Washington last week.
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Dominique Anglade, the economy minister in Quebec's National Assembly, said in an interview that the decision was a victory for open markets but had resonance in Quebec that extended far beyond economics.
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"They think of themselves as deal-makers, not cops," said Matt Stoller, policy director at the Open Markets Institute, who has called for big tech platforms to be broken up and regulated.
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Matt Stoller, a fellow at the Open Markets Institute, a group that advocates against corporate monopolies, suggests there's likely quit a bit of revenue from Amazon the USPS is failing to capture.
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On Monday, the Open Markets Institute — an anti-monopoly think tank — is releasing the first part of a data set showing the market share that the largest companies have in each industry.
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That post fit perfectly with the work of the Open Markets initiative he led, which has been one of the strongest voices in Washington calling for more antitrust scrutiny of our economy.
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What's happening: "I don't think anyone is paying attention to Walmart," says Sally Hubbard, a director at the Open Markets Institute and a former assistant attorney general in New York's antitrust bureau.
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"Lina's work gave people something you could point to and say, 'Read that and you'll understand,' " says Barry Lynn, a former employer of Khan's who runs the anti-monopoly Open Markets Institute.
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Lifting the ban was intended to open markets for all the new fuel produced by the shale boom that the U.S. didn't need and couldn't refine, not feed some dire domestic demand.
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Matt Stoller, policy director at Open Markets Institute, one of the groups Definers targeted, told POLITICO that the FTC needs to punish Facebook and set rules to rein in the company's behavior.
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Kristalina Georgieva, a Bulgarian who took up her post at the multilateral development lender at the start of this year, also praised China for its commitment to economic reforms and open markets.
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Khanna shied away from criticizing Google for allegedly influencing the work of Open Markets, a think tank that fired a critic of Google's power, purportedly after a complaint from a top executive.
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At the same time, as part of its role in CFIUS, the State Department should support deals with companies in allied countries with open markets such as the European members of NATO.
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Instead, Merkel and Trump will square off at the G-20 summit in early July over the merits and dangers of open markets, even if little of substance comes from their rhetoric.
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The list of principles summarizes reform recommendations for governments to boost the resilience of their economies against future shocks, including the advice to strengthen policy frameworks to reap the benefits of open markets.
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After all, several of them once led high-handed campaigns to open markets in far-off lands by working in cahoots with pliant local despots, only to learn hard lessons about colonial hubris.
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They hope that pressure from Mr Trump will force Mr Xi to keep promises made in recent speeches—to open markets further to foreign investors, better protect intellectual property and encourage fair competition.
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Yes, and: That trend toward concentration extends throughout the system, even into sectors that most patients never directly interact with, according to new data from the Open Markets Institute, shared first with Axios.
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That has transformed - to transform China open markets trade has been absolutely critical in raising hundreds of millions if not billions of people out of poverty and that the answer is not protectionism.
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"It begs the question of why our existing institutions aren't functioning, because the Digital Authority exists — it's called the Federal Trade Commission," said Matt Stoller, a fellow at the progressive Open Markets Institute.
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"These rules do not get to the heart of the problem," said Barry Lynn, executive director of the Open Markets Institute, which advocates for tough enforcement of antitrust rules against big tech platforms.
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As we've continued to learn in the aviation field, other benefits follow from robust infrastructure investment: more open markets, positive safety trends and an increase of high-skill and high-paying American jobs.
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In a June 22, 2016 email from Slaughter to Lynn obtained by The Hill, the think tank chief worried she had not given Google enough notice of an Open Markets event where Sen.
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The changes mark a new era of government oversight of business activity in the world's fifth-largest economy which has traditionally been one of the most open markets to global mergers and acquisitions.
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Sandeep Vaheesan, a policy counsel at the Open Markets Institute, says Amazon managed to evade scrutiny for so long because the public and policymakers were captivated by the benefits it provided to consumers.
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The criticism from the left of open markets leading to increased use of traditional fuels has been false, and the theory that opening energy markets will cause price spirals has also been false.
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The allegedly precipitating incident that led to Lynn's and Open Markets' dismissal was their statement in support of a $2.7 billion fine that the EU handed to Google at the end of June.
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As I was reporting this story, the New York Times broke the news that New America, bending to pressure from Google CEO Eric Schmidt, had fired Lynn and given Open Markets the boot.
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On Wednesday, The New York Times's Ken Vogel reported that New America had parted ways with Open Markets following complaints from Eric Schmidt, the executive chairman of Alphabet, a major New America donor.
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Minutes are due on Wednesday from the October meeting of the U.S. Federal Reserve's federal open markets committee and the European Central Bank's new president, Christine Lagarde, will speak in Frankfurt on Friday.
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In the summer of 2017, Open Markets was ejected from New America amid messy accusations that it displeased Google, a prominent funder, after the company was rebuked by European regulators for anticompetitive behavior.
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The Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC), the Fed's rate-setting panel, said in a Wednesday statement that it will maintain the baseline interest rate for overnight bank loans at 1.5 to 85033 percent.
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The Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC), the Fed's rate-setting panel, said in a Wednesday statement that it will maintain the baseline interest rate for overnight bank loans at 22020 to 1.75 percent.
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With Larry Kudlow about to ascend to top economic advisor to President Donald Trump, investors get an ally of open markets, a supply-side free trader and passionate advocate for a strong currency.
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The Federal Open Markets Committee will release the minutes from its latest meeting on Wednesday afternoon, sending investors on a hunt for clues about where interest rates might go in the near future.
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Matt Stoller, an economist at the Open Markets Institute who has become a vocal critic of Amazon's market power, said that Amazon landing the sole-source contract could have wide-ranging negative effects.
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They should also make Japan more resilient if the United States tries - as Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer has hinted - to pry open markets such as rice and beef that are protected by tariffs.
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In 2010, he began expanding the Open Markets team and taking on the role of an editor, overseeing its efforts to raise awareness about corporate concentration through investigative journalism, historical analysis and research.
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The first stage of the deal will open markets up to $7 billion in U.S. products, the president said while meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the U.N. in New York.
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And many came, from representatives of the old Chicago school, such as Dennis Carlton, to tech's most ardent foes, such as Barry Lynn and Matt Stoller of the Open Markets Institute, a think-tank.
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So it can get fierce in open markets that bring significant competition for drivers and riders, or work collaboratively with local government in places where a challenging regulatory landscapes requires a more nuanced approach.
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"Despite this adjustment ... the STO will fragment markets and, being a supporter of open markets, I regret that result very much," ESMA Chair Steven Maijoor told a Federation of European Exchanges conference in Dublin.
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Open Markets: Chad Bown of the Peterson Institute for International Economics; Victoria Bateman of the University of Cambridge; Callum Williams, Britain economics correspondent; Ali Digby, assistant editor, Open Future; Charlie Wells, deputy snapchat editor.
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"The combination of open markets and technology means that returns in a globalized world amplify the rewards of the superstar and the lucky," he said in a speech at the Liverpool John Moores University.
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President Mauricio Macri was elected in November on an open-markets platform following eight years of protectionism under Cristina Fernandez, who refused to negotiate with hedge funds suing the country over its defaulted bonds.
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There have been plenty of other ways to buy refurbished iPhones over the years, including retailers like Glyde, Gazelle, and Best Buy—not to mention bidding on the open markets of eBay and Craigslist.
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The Sherman Antitrust Act, along with the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914 and the Packers and Stockyards Act of 1921, provided strong tools for antitrust enforcement in order to protect free and open markets.
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The technically-incorrect proposed Order dismantles 15 years of targeted oversight from both Republican and Democratic FCC chairs, who understood the threats that Internet access providers could pose to open markets on the Internet.
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"Health care data is very personal, and Google doesn't have a track record to protect [it]," said Daniel Hanley, a policy analyst at the Open Markets Institute, a think tank critical of Silicon Valley.
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In fact, the Federal Open Markets Committee demonstrated its satisfaction with the state of the economy Wednesday when it raised its target federal funds rate 0.25 percent, rather than continue an expansionary monetary policy.
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Khan worked as a director of legal policy at Open Markets through its controversial departure from the New America think tank after publishing a critical post about a major donor to the organization, Google.
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President Obama strongly defended a globalized, interconnected world in his final speech at the United Nations on Tuesday, arguing that open markets, capitalism and democracy should remain the guiding forces of the international order.
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The bank's Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC) announced at the end of its first meeting of the year that it would keep the federal funds rate at a range of 2628 to 28503 percent.
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The minutes from the most recent meeting of the Fed's decision-making body, the Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC), show the decision-makers puzzling over why the economy continues to respond tepidly to stimulus.
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There is no doubt, from countless studies, that more open markets and investment have been a powerful factor in decreasing world poverty from 2628 percent in the early 28503s to 22019 percent in 2013.
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"Any objective observer would know the US has far more open markets than China, but it was a way Xi (could) balance himself against the unexpected rhetoric of Trump and take advantage," Mitter said.
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Matt Stoller, a fellow at the Open Markets Institute, tweeted on Saturday that Trump could fire Fed board members for holding bank stock in index funds under Section 10 of the Federal Reserve Act.
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To shore up financial market concerns, Powell must navigate a lack of clear consensus among the rate-setting Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC) members over whether another cut would be necessary or even helpful.
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The bank's Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC) announced at the end of its first meeting of the year that it would keep the federal funds rate at a range of 2.25 to 2.5 percent.
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They announced that mainland China stocks would be included on a gradual basis, and clearly stated that the pace of inclusion would very much depend on how Chinese regulators allow for more open markets.
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The chamber's report comes a day after China's President Xi Jinping gave a speech at the World Economic Forum championing open markets, and Beijing unveiled proposals to reduce restrictions on foreign investment in China.
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But the investigation has a bigger consequence: according to Matt Stoller, a fellow at the Open Markets Institute, the most important aspect of the investigation is that it will reveal how exactly Google works.
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Both center-right and center-left governments moved faster than other countries did to open markets, reduce taxes, reform pensions and introduce choice and competition in the public sector, for example, with school vouchers.
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Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, who castigated Silicon Valley giants in a widely publicized Open Markets program event at New America in 2016, appears unnerved herself by what has unfolded with Google and New America.
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"Sellers are in this 'frenemy' position where they're very dependent on these companies but also competing with them," Lina Khan, a legal policy director with the nonprofit think tank Open Markets Institute, told BuzzFeed News.
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The European Union and South American bloc Mercosur agreed a free-trade treaty on Friday, concluding two decades of talks and committing to more open markets in the face of a rising tide of protectionism.
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For ideas about what the government can do about all this, I call Lina Khan, a fellow at the Open Markets Institute who wrote a blockbuster paper on the need to regulate Amazon's monopoly power.
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"As markets get more concentrated, you should see a rise in cases, because there's more potential for illegal activity," said Sandeep Vaheesan, legal director for the Open Markets Institute, which favors stricter scrutiny of mergers.
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Altmaier, a confidant of Chancellor Angela Merkel, said Germany would continue to advocate "fair and open" markets while eyeing better framework conditions within the EU to support new technologies in areas such as artificial intelligence.
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U.S. PIRG Education Fund, a consumer advocacy group, is sending a letter to the Justice Department Monday to urge that the deal be blocked, as is a group of consumer advocates, led by Open Markets.
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Pressing for massive tariff increases, ditching trade agreements that protect U.S. economic interests and undercutting the post-World War II trade system we helped create in order to open markets will not eliminate these deficits.
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"We are working closely with our members and government to ensure the industry's trade priorities are well understood, to promote open markets, and to identify opportunities to grow our exports in the future," he added.
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His remarks mirrored those from last week's Federal Open Markets Committee meeting, and he emphasized that policy is under review though he did not overtly tip his hand that a rate cut is at hand.
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Sarah Miller, the deputy director of the Open Markets Institute, one of the groups that asked to speak with Mr. Becerra, expressed hopefulness that Mr. Becerra would join the antitrust investigations into the tech companies.
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Seeking to put 'America first', U.S. President Donald Trump's administration has advocated increased trade barriers and measures aiming to protect U.S. business interest, challenging a G20 consensus to maintaining open markets and cross border trade.
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Documenting the concentration of corporate power, the Open Markets Initiative has pushed for a revival of antitrust laws, a powerful tool and central tenet of the Democratic Party until the rise of Third Way liberalism.
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That same month, the Authors Guild and PEN America joined the Open Markets Institute, an antitrust think tank based in Washington, in sending a letter to the Justice Department recommending that the merger be blocked.
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But that has been a struggle as the industry has pushed for open markets in order to get access to funding, said Andrew Freedman, who helped the lead the development of Colorado's legal cannabis market.
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"We will closely watch the developments and we can buy some percentages more on the open markets depending on the stages of regulatory approvals we achieve," Michael Wachsler-Markowitsch told reporters at a news conference.
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"If Congress is to do its job, and counterbalance the executive, it has to know what it's talking about," Barry Lynn, executive director of the Open Markets Institute, said last year of the lawmakers' efforts.
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"We applaud the 50 state attorneys general for taking this unprecedented stand against Big Tech by uniting to investigate Google's destruction of competition in search and advertising," the Open Markets Institute said in a statement.
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"The FTC was set up and designed to prevent large companies from dominating and structuring markets," said Matt Stoller, policy director of the Open Markets Institute, a D.C.-based advocacy group focused on corporate consolidation.
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"The G20 agreed on fundamental principles backing a free trade system, which is to ensure free, fair, non-discriminatory trade," as well as open markets and a level playing field for all nations, Abe said.
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This is a by-invitation commentary as part of The Economist's Open Future initiative, which is designed to spur a global conversation across the ideological spectrum on individual rights, open markets, free speech, technology and more.
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Lina Khan, a former Open Markets fellow, says her team is regularly in conversations with staffers from both the House and Senate, including discussions about antitrust concerns around mergers, such as Amazon's acquisition of Whole Foods.
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Sally Hubbard of the Open Markets Institute has argued on CNN that tech companies have helped chip away at antitrust law by arguing in court cases that consumers are not harmed by their anti-competitive practices.
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The central bank's policymaking arm, the Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC), voted 8 to 2 on Wednesday to cut its baseline interest rate range by 0.25 percentage points to a 1.5 percent to 2023 percent target.
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"Today, there is political opportunity to say that those of us who believe in open markets and good trade, we are willing to do trade agreements," EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom told Reuters in an interview.
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The central bank's policymaking arm, the Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC), voted 2900 to 220006 on Wednesday to cut its baseline interest rate range by 2202 percentage points to a 2628 percent to 28500 percent target.
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Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski said members of the Latin American trade bloc the Pacific Alliance must double down on efforts to open markets and strengthen ties as they navigate the "turbulent waters" of protectionist rhetoric.
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"I think this could go both ways," said Alana Tummino, senior director of policy and head of the Cuba Working Group at the Council of the Americas, a business organization promoting free trade and open markets.
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"The FTC's settlement is woefully insufficient in light of Facebook's persistent privacy violations," Sally Hubbard, director of strategic enforcement at the Open Markets Institute, an advocacy group generally skeptical of big tech, said in a statement.
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"If approved by regulators, the deal would worsen the already severe damage that Amazon is doing to America's competitive, open market system," said Barry Lynn, director of the Open Markets program at the New America Foundation.
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"It's an important acknowledgement that antitrust law and competition policy are central to creating and maintaining a fair and democratic economy," says Lina Khan, a fellow with the Open Markets Project at the New America Foundation.
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However, a dovish Federal Open Markets Committee meeting last week - which dialed back on the amount of rate hikes it would perform this year - has changed the game and weakened the dollar versus the euro and .
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In the release of the Federal Reserve's minutes from the September meeting, the members of the Federal Open Markets Committee spoke about the various aspects of the US economy and their progression since the July meeting.
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"Through non-compete clauses, employers deprive workers of the freedom to leave for greener employment pastures and to pursue entrepreneurial opportunities," Open Markets Legal Director Sandeep Vaheesan, whose group signed the petition, said in a statement.
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Sigmar Gabriel drew a distinction between open markets and what he called "a state-capitalist interventionist market", a clear reference to China, where German companies have long complained of obstacles to investment and acquiring local firms.
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In a statement following a two-day meeting in Washington, the central bank's Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC) announced it would cut its baseline interest rate range to 2-2.25 percent, a 0.25 percentage-point cut.
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"We live in uncertain times because the old certainty for many decades has been that the United States was completely wedded to open markets and free trade," Philip Hammond told India's CNBC-TV 18 on Tuesday.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany and France's economy ministers said on Wednesday that the European Union's future economic success depended on more structural reforms, perhaps encouraged by a special fund, greater investment and a defending of open markets.
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Google and executive chairman Eric Schmidt have given around $20 million to New America over the past two decades, and Lynn and Open Markets have emerged as leading critics of Google in the past few years.
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Beijing's "Made in China 2025" plan calls for a progressive increase in domestic components in such sectors, leading foreign firms to worry they will face increasing hurdles in China contrary to officials' vows to open markets.
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According to Reuters, China's Premier Li Keqiang told a conference Monday that both the U.S. and China should continue talks, with Keqiang pledging to maintain open markets, in the hope of preventing a potential trade war.
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The minutes showed policymakers still thought the U.S. economy was in good shape last month when the Fed's rate-setting Federal Open Markets Committee raised its target range for overnight lending by a quarter percentage point.
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Sandeep Vaheesan, legal director at the Open Markets Institute, a Washington think tank that advocates for stronger antitrust enforcement, said the App Store gave Apple too much power over pricing and allowed it to censor content.
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"Until we see what they intend to do, none of this means anything," said Barry Lynn, director of the Open Markets Institute, a Washington think tank that has played a leading role in raising antitrust concerns.
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New open markets and President Trump's tax and trade policies have contributed to record wage growth and the lowest unemployment rate in half a century, including the lowest ever recorded for African-Americans, and Hispanic-Americans.
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"While I think these changes are necessary and they represent a step in the right direction, they ultimately will be insufficient," Daniel Hanley, a policy analyst at the Open Markets Institute think tank, told The Hill.
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The use of robots takes advantage of the fact that political campaigns, elections and even open markets make humanistic assumptions, trusting that there is wisdom or at least legitimacy in crowds and value in public debate.
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Chile, among Latin America's most open economies and the world's top copper exporter, has sought to remain neutral amid the growing trade tensions between China and the United States, promoting instead the need for open markets.
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The piece, by Matthew Buck of the Open Markets Institute, said the tech companies' drive to maximize corporate revenues could skew the development of health technology away from the best interests of patients and toward overtreatment.
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In Europe, the word has traditionally meant a preference for things like limited government, separate private and public spheres, freedom of the press and association, free trade and open markets — what's often described as ''classical liberalism.
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The first stage of the accord will open markets up to about $7 billion in U.S. agricultural products, President Donald Trump said at a signing ceremony with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the United Nations.
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Some, like Energy Secretary Rick Perry, have argued that not only does the grid need fossil fuels, but coal plants that lose money in open markets need to be propped up to ensure the grid's reliability.
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HEGSETH: The president would make the point, Eric, to you, the president would make the point that we&aposve already been attacked, industry after industry, by countries taking advantage of our intellectual property, of our open markets.
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"A lot of tech platforms will start making the argument that consumers don't have standing to bring antitrust suits against us," said Sandeep Vaheesan, legal director for the Open Markets Institute, a Washington-based antitrust advocacy group.
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The authors of the study hope that instead of being a sign of liberal elitism, drinking lattes will soon be seen as a symbol of inclusion—one of openness to globalization and willingness to embrace open markets.
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The decision to tighten the screening of foreign investment rules marks a further shift in policy for the world's fifth-largest economy which has traditionally been one of the most open markets to global mergers and acquisitions.
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However, the family has long enjoyed good political connections: for all its support for free trade and open markets abroad, until the 1990s it had decades of help from protectionist policies that kept foreign predators at bay.
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Clinton normalized trade relations with China and supported its accession into the World Trade Organization with the hopes that economic freedom would not only open markets to US firms, but also lead to the spread of democracy.
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It can do so with a strong demand for trade surplus countries to actively contribute to the growth of the world economy with expansionary monetary and fiscal policies and more open markets for global commerce and finance.
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BRUSSELS, June 29 (Reuters) - Disputes over cheese and pharmaceuticals are holding up the start of a EU-Canada free trade agreement that both sides have championed as a landmark deal for open markets against a protectionist tide.
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"With inflation muted, I believe that the Committee can afford to be patient as we see how the data evolve in 2019," Clarida said last week, referring to the Fed's interest-rate setting Federal Open Markets Committee.
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All too often this debate minimizes a complex issue into a simple "us vs them" dichotomy that overlooks the real and tangible benefit to American businesses and consumers that comes with embracing open markets and global trade.
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Though Color of Change is a partner of Freedom from Facebook, which is an offshoot of anti-monopoly think tank the Open Markets Institute, that think tank told Vox they have received no such overtures from Facebook.
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Speaking at an event to mark the beginning of Germany's presidency of the G20, Schaeuble added that nationalism and protectionism were not the right response to globalization and stressed the importance of open markets and global trade.
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Still, countries or regions with relatively open markets like Europe are scrambling to protect their steel industry, fearing more exports from China if its economy slows further as a result of the wider U.S.-Sino trade war.
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"I would caution that enforcers need to be very vigilant to make sure that Apple is not tipping the scales in its favor," Sally Hubbard, director of enforcement strategy at the Open Markets Institute, told The Hill.
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"Almost everybody underscored the importance of open markets and free market access," German central bank governor Jens Weidmann said following meetings among finance ministers from the world's top 20 economic powers, including U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.
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"These promises about what they're going to do with data in the context of merger approvals deserve absolutely no weight," said Sally Hubbard, director of enforcement strategy at the Open Markets Institute, an anti-monopoly think tank.
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The truth is much more complicated, and there's no reason to believe Soros had ever even heard of the group, which received support from the Open Markets Institute, a think tank that the billionaire has donated to.
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The other key question about the trade war is whether or not it will be short-lived and resolve to a world of more open markets or whether we are seeing the start of ongoing commercial conflict.
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Taken together, Mr. Trump's actions demonstrate his resolve to turn away from a decades-long move toward open markets and integrated world economies and toward a more starkly protectionist approach that erects barriers around a Fortress America.
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"I remember just two years ago we were talking about pushing hard for the Trans-Pacific Partnership so we could open markets in Asia, but all of that has just been turned upside down," Mr. Harris said.
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The bank's policymaking arm, the Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC), faces a crucial decision in September on whether to cut interest rates by 0.25 percentage points, issue a larger 0.5-percentage point cut, or keep rates unchanged.
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To achieve this, it needs to reform from within, invest more in growth and jobs, engage in an ambitious European climate policy and strengthen common foreign and trade policies geared toward transparent, open markets and progressive standards.
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Tangible moves by China to improve its regulatory environment and provide fair and consistent treatment to U.S. companies in licensing and legal procedures would show that China practices what they preach about free trade and open markets.
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Barry Lynn and his Open Markets team had done research on economic competition for the New America think tank, but were let go after a blog post praising European regulators for issuing a record fine on Google.
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Until recently, those calling for an antitrust revival were a small group outside the academic and policymaking mainstream, mostly centered around the Open Markets Initiative previously housed at the New America Foundation, a left-leaning think tank.
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Meeting standards can open markets and raise prices, but Gonzalez said governments should "craft" regulation with SMEs in mind, since smaller firms make up 98 percent of businesses and their ability to trade suffers disproportionately from red tape.
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"That's fantastically expensive, it's probably bad medicine, and it would lead to all kinds of fragmentation in care," says Phillip Longman, policy director at the Open Markets Institute, who has written a book on the VA health system.
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Poloz's comments followed a speech in which he said Canada must continue to push for open markets because the costs of protectionism are steep, pushing back against rising anti-trade sentiment in both the United States and Europe.
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To the many traumas inflicted by Brexit, then, add this: a fear among Britain's friends that its withdrawal from the deepest trading bloc the world has ever known makes it harder to advance the case for open markets.
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In a joint statement published in Berlin, Economy Minister Brigitte Zypries, IG Metall union head Joerg Hofmann and BDI industry association president Dieter Kempf said prosperity depended on open markets and open societies, and not only in Germany.
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Since its plans for a trade alliance with the United States were frozen after Donald Trump's presidential election victory, the EU has focused instead on trying to champion open markets and seal accords with other like-minded countries.
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Bosses in every sector, from finance to pharmaceuticals, are worrying about the European regulatory climate when they can no longer count on the British banging their fist on the table, demanding free trade and lobbying for open markets.
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Market focus is largely attuned to central banks, with the European Central Bank (ECB) set to announce its latest monetary policy decision on Thursday ahead of the U.S. Federal Reserve's Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC) meeting next week.
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BADEN BADEN, Germany (Reuters) - Finance leaders of the world's top economies are still searching for a compromise on how to summarize their joint stance on global trade and open markets, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said on Friday.
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Kevin Carty, a researcher at Open Markets Institute, a think tank that focuses on antitrust issues, said that even if Bosworth's comments are taken in good faith, they show that Facebook doesn't need to care about public perception.
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WASHINGTON — President Trump's isolationist approach to trade is rattling what little uneasy peace remains within the Republican Party as the White House pursues policies at odds with longstanding conservative orthodoxy about the benefits of free and open markets.
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It will be seen in the U.S. ability to accommodate and even extend the region's embrace of multilateral cooperation, open markets, free trade, democracy and human rights as the core values upon which a sustainable future is based.
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The movie effectively demonstrates that the open markets pushed by Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher were not constructed with the expectation, or even the hope, that a rapacious actor in the McCreadie mode would behave decently within them.
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Matt Stoller, fellow at the progressive antitrust nonprofit the Open Markets Institute and author of "Goliath," told Business Insider that an alliance between the left and the right on this issue is not only necessary but very promising.
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In a statement following a two-day meeting in Washington, the central bank's rate-setting Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC) said it would cut interest rates by 28503 percentage points to a 22019 to 2 percent baseline range.
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Bond investors paused for breath following the vote, and ahead of key euro zone data, the Federal Open Markets Committee press conference, and the resumption of trade talks between China and the U.S., all due later on Wednesday.
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" The religion of the global elite — free trade and open markets — is under attack, and there has been a lot of hand-wringing over what Christine Lagarde of the International Monetary Fund has declared a "middle-class crisis.
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In a statement following a two-day meeting in Washington, the central bank's rate-setting Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC) said it would cut interest rates by 0.25 percentage points to a 1.75 to 2 percent baseline range.
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"Repression, open markets, freedom of religion, political prisoners—these things need to change in order to have open and free relationships, and that's what President-elect Trump believes, and that's where he's going to head," Priebus said Sunday.
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BRUSSELS/OSAKA (Reuters) - The European Union and South American bloc Mercosur agreed a free trade treaty on Friday, concluding two decades of talks and committing to more open markets in the face of a rising tide of protectionism.
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"Today, we can proudly conclude this process, sending a strong message to the international community that open markets, economic integration and international cooperation are the best tools for creating economic opportunities and prosperity," said Chilean President Michelle Bachelet.
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Proponents like Lina Khan and Matthew Stoller of the think tank New America's Open Markets Program argue that the status quo is too narrow to protect the public in an era of tech titans like Google, Facebook, and Amazon.
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Federal filings spotted by Open Markets Institute's Matthew Stoller and tracked by ProPublica show that Musk was a top-22016 donor to Protect The House last quarter, giving $22003,22018 to the PAC, which raised more than $0003 million total.
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As part of our week-long debate on whether capitalism is rigged in favour of elites we spoke to Barry Lynn, the head of the Open Markets Institute, to discuss the basics of competition and why it is important.
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"Their operations are affecting democracy in a really direct way: Destroying journalism, destroying the essence of what truth is," Daniel Hanley, a policy analyst with the Open Markets Institute, told Recode, in reference to companies like Google and Facebook.
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The U.S. Travel Association plans on taking a leading role in securing more agreements with more countries to open markets in the U.S., President and CEO Roger Dow said on Wednesday in his "State of the Travel Industry" address.
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The more than one decade long "supercycle" in which voracious Asian consumption fueled peak commodities prices and enabled Latin America and Africa to notch sustained high growth rates is attributable to Chinese and Indian demand, not America's open markets.
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Here's what he said at an event held by the progressive Open Markets Institute, where he name-checked Facebook, Google and Amazon: Why it matters: It's not clear how net neutrality would be enforced on the largest web platforms.
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The law requires that transfer prices reflect the true value of transferred goods and services, but as these transfers do not take place in open markets, corporations can set them as they please if they are not grossly unreasonable.
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Daniel Hanley, a policy analyst at the Open Markets Institute, a think tank that has long challenged Silicon Valley, said larger companies often wait for a competitor to arise, so they can just acquire the company and its technology.
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That's among the reasons General Electric, which relies on foreign markets for more than half its revenue, has been preparing for the kind of political retreat from open markets that the British vote to leave the European Union represents.
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Details of a potential deal remain in flux, with the U.S. pushing for more open markets and an elimination of intellectual property theft, while China wants Washington to drop some $250 billion in tariffs imposed since the impasse began.
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And it's fair to say that the primary intellectual mover behind all of this has been Barry Lynn, a longtime fellow at the New America Foundation who lead a small group there that called itself the Open Markets Initiative.
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Category #2 could be seen as covering Facebook and Google, said Lina Khan, the Director of Legal Policy at the Open Markets Institute, as opposed to companies like Amazon that set up more direct transactions between buyer and seller.
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Opening a period of public comment that runs through January, the cabinet said that while five-sixths of power purchases took place on open markets, more than 99 percent of retail and business consumers remain bound to regulated suppliers.
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The Federal Open Markets Committee, which is in charge of the Fed's monetary policy, said it would hold off on increasing rates beyond the 1 to 1.25 percent target range as inflation lingers below the 2 percent target range.
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TRADE - Phil Hogan (Ireland) After five years as the Commission's agriculture chief, Phil Hogan will take on trade, having already been instrumental in negotiating an open markets agreement between the EU and the Mercosur bloc of South American countries.
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We spoke about this development with Matt Stoller, author of the antitrust history "Goliath," and a researcher at the Open Markets Institute who helped put an antitrust plank back into the Democratic platform for the first time since 1992.
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The Federal Open Markets Committee, which is in charge of the Fed's monetary policy, said it would hold off on increasing rates beyond the 2628 to 28500 percent target range as inflation lingers below the 6900 percent target range.
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BADEN-BADEN, Germany (Reuters) - The world's financial leaders adopted a list of principles on Saturday to boost the resilience of their economies against future shocks, including the advice to strengthen policy frameworks to reap the benefits of open markets.
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Members of the Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC), which sets Fed interest rates, expressed confidence in the country's ability to stretch a record run of economic growth and job gains well into 28503 at their last meeting, held Jan.
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But at the end we're talking about something which is very detrimental which is this trade conflict because this is undermining one fundamental pillar which we had built our economic prosperity over the last four years which is global open markets.
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Lynn is now starting an independent think tank to continue Open Markets' mission, while New America President and CEO Anne-Marie Slaughter has taken to a number of different online outlets to defend Lynn's firing as unrelated to his Google criticism.
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"We have had unfair trading practices all these years, and so in my judgment, the economic consequences are so small that the possible improvement in trade and exports and open markets for the United States, this is worthwhile doing," Kudlow said.
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As occasional VICE contributor and Open Markets Institute fellow Matt Stoller wrote for the Washington Post earlier this month: It's too soon to know how much—if any—influence the White House had on this ostensibly apolitical Justice Department decision.
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Speaking at an economic forum in St Petersburg, Sechin said a third of global oil reserves were restricted by U.S. sanctions on Iran and Venezuela and that Washington was losing moral ground as a self-styled leader of open markets.
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Jonathan Herbst, global head of financial services at law firm Norton Rose Fulbright, told a conference on Thursday that ESMA's "blunt, political statement" raised the question of what happens if the EU does not reciprocate Britain's open markets stance after Brexit.
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The backdrop: A Republican consulting firm — Definers Public Affairs — working for Facebook tried to link the Freedom from Facebook campaign with George Soros, whose Open Society Foundations help fund the Open Markets Institute, the New York Times reported on Wednesday.
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The "effectiveness" of the FTC is "is going to be weighed to a large degree by their actions on Facebook," says Barry Lynn of the Open Markets Institute, a think-tank that argues for more forceful use of antitrust laws.
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The anniversary comes at a time when the world is turning against liberalism, our founding credo, which is defined by a commitment to individual dignity, open markets, limited government and a faith in human progress brought about by debate and reform.
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With no resolution in sight, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue on Thursday announced a $16 billion aid program to help U.S. farmers hurt by the conflict, with some funds to be used to open markets outside China to U.S. products.
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BRASILIA (Reuters) - If Brazilian presidential candidate Geraldo Alckmin is elected in October, his government will follow a more pragmatic approach to trade partners Russia and China in order to open markets for its food exports, his running mate said on Wednesday.
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" Mr. Obama made the case on Tuesday that while imperfect, "the principles of open markets and accountable governance, of democracy and human rights and international law that we have forged remain the firmest foundation for human progress in this century.
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The world's biggest economies should recommit to maintaining open markets and cross-border trade as a fresh wave of protectionism and deregulation could easily sow the seeds of a new crisis, Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann said on Wednesday.
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Over time, he built that work into a 10-person program called "Open Markets" which—through platforms like the prescient liberal magazine Washington Monthly—sought to promote awareness of the consequences of monopoly and other forms of consolidated economic power.
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If Open Markets and the Roosevelt Institute represent vanguards of pugilistic progressivism in this arena, their natural counterparts resisting antitrust reform would normally be found in Democratic establishment organs like the Obama White House and the Center for American Progress.
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"The backlash is catching on because people in Europe believe in it, and are acting on it," Matt Stoller, a Silicon Valley critic and fellow at the Open Markets Institute in Washington, said of the European wave of tech regulation.
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" Eric Schweitzer, president of the DIHK Chambers of Commerce, told Welt am Sonntag the German economy had for decades counted on open markets and a reliable global trading system but added: "Every day German companies feel the transatlantic rift getting wider.
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"We worked very hard to drive the agenda toward having open markets, free trade, inclusive growth and not interfering in currency in an unfair way," Jack Lew, who served as Treasury secretary under Mr. Obama, said in an interview this month.
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As the Open Markets Institute, for which I work, explained in an amicus brief, deciding an antitrust case using the amorphous concept of a "two-sided" market will incentivize all sorts of companies to seek protection under this bad new theory.
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Likely new post: Executive Vice Premier Previous position: Vice Premier Age: 62 Birthplace: Anhui Province As vice premier, Mr. Wang has been responsible for agriculture and foreign trade, and has said that China is committed to open markets and free commerce.
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"In this case, Apple, may be trying to and appease federal officials to create a repository of goodwill in hopes of mitigating the plethora of antitrust remedies that can be imposed," Daniel A. Hanley of the Open Markets Institute told Recode.
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At issue is New America's firing on Wednesday of a scholar named Barry Lynn, and its exiling of his entire 33-person initiative, called Open Markets, which had been pushing for more rigorous antitrust enforcement against Google and other tech giants.
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A lack of follow-through over the past several years on repeated State Council vows to open markets to the world have left foreign businesses with "promise fatigue", as the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China put it last month.
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The Federal Open Markets Committee minutes showed that Fed members appeared split over when to hike rates next during their July meeting, when central bank policymakers voted to hold the target rate in a range of 1 percent to 1.25 percent.
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Where previous American leaders saw their power as a benevolent force, and were intent on spreading prosperity through open markets and multilateral cooperation, Mr. Trump has portrayed himself as a nationalist, a unilateralist and a protectionist, eager to save American jobs.
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Navarro took strong exception with regard to tariff critics who have regularly written in favor of freedom and open markets, and who frequently note that tariffs are taxes paid by ordinary Americans who ultimately bear the burden of trade wars.
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China Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping have still not signed the first-round trade pact that will put a hold on new tariffs, trim some existing duties on Chinese products and open markets in China to some American farm products.
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It would be hard to underestimate the stakes for global growth, given the size and inter-dependence of these two economies, if the focus remains on tariffs and trade deficits rather than on how to secure open markets and raise productivity.
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Sally Hubbard, the director of enforcement at the Open Markets Institute, an advocacy group deeply involved in the push for antitrust enforcement on tech companies, argued that Biden is carrying on the Obama administration's light-touch approach to the industry.
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"I believe that as imperfect as they are, the principles of open markets and accountable governance, of democracy and human rights and international law that we have forged remain the firmest foundation for human progress in this century," Obama said.
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Quotable: "This would be a joke of a fine — a two-weeks-of-revenue, parking-ticket-level penalty for destroying democracy," said Matt Stoller, a fellow at the Open Markets Institute, a think tank that is critical of tech companies' powers.
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But with the September expulsion of Open Markets and its director Barry Lynn from New America under pressure from search advertising monolith Google, anti-monopoly activists have newfound independence, and a growing list of friends that includes members of Congress.
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Despite hosting Trump in the dying days of her premiership after her failure to deliver Brexit on time forced her to resign, May will also distance herself from the U.S. leader on trade by championing "free, fair and open" markets.
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Giving Internet Explorer to people for free was seen as ultimately hurting consumers, which is a version of antitrust law that American regulators have since mostly abandoned, though activists like the Open Markets Institute are pushing for it to be re-embraced.
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"Effective open markets and legal certainty continue to be the highest priority and of the utmost importance to SIX in order to be able to serve best the interests of banks, issuers and investors," the group owned by around 130 banks said.
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He said Facebook's intention in working with a Washington opposition research firm was not to target Soros, whose foundation has given to the Open Markets Institute but not the Facebook campaign, but to show that the group was not a grassroots movement.
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You can read the document below: Buzzfeed reports that there "is at least one other, longer Definers document involving Soros," and that a spokesperson for the Open Markets Institute has said that Soros hasn't provided any funding for the Freedom from Facebook coalition.
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The trouble began for Mr Lynn and his Open Markets team, a research outfit that advocated anti-monopoly regulations, after he published a statement praising the European Commission for levying a $2.7bn fine on Google—a big donor to the think-tank.
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Speaking to CNBC in an exclusive interview before leaving to the G-20 meeting in Hangzhou, China, the 61-year old said the expansion of open markets, the encouragement of innovation and better living standards were at the top of his agenda.
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ECB President Mario Draghi could revise the central bank's forward guidance on Thursday to signal a September rate cut, and markets are pricing in a 25 basis point cut from the Fed following its Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC) meeting next week.
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"(Mnuchin) is supportive of open markets and open world trade and with this I believe that some things that appear as concerns now will decrease over time... but there is still some work to do," Schaeuble said on Friday, according to a translation.
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"It's a battle," Matt Stoller, a fellow at the Open Markets Institute, VICE contributor, and critic of the party's coziness with entrenched financial power, said in an email when I asked if Warren's move meant Obama donors were losing control of the party.
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"It's important that we get rid of these silly, technocratic barriers to seeking relief under the antitrust laws," said Sally Hubbard, director of enforcement strategy at Open Markets, a think tank that has criticized the tech industry as being too powerful and concentrated.
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In recent years, critics like antitrust scholar Lina Khan and populist agitators like the Open Markets Institute have raised public awareness about this so-called consumer welfare standard—offering citizens some insight into why enforcers have viewed Silicon Valley differently than Standard Oil.
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Speaking ahead of the G20 gathering of finance ministers and central bankers in the German town of Baden-Baden on Friday and Saturday, Schaeuble said it was still unclear if the G20 would keep joint language supporting free trade and open markets.
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Members of the Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC), the Fed's monetary policymaking board, expressed confidence that a growing economy would continue to justify increasing federal interest rates toward historic neutral levels, according to minutes from its July 31 to August 1 meeting.
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The so-called T.P.P. would phase out thousands of tariffs, open markets and impose new trade rules, including for labor rights and environmental standards, on signatory nations that span both sides of the Pacific, including Japan, Vietnam, Australia, Canada, Chile and Mexico.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany regards as "unlawful" a U.S. decision to move ahead with tariffs on aluminum and steel imports from Canada, Mexico and the European Union but will continue to push for free trade and open markets, government spokesman Steffen Seibert said.
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Open Markets, a division at the public policy think tank the New America Foundation, had been an intellectual force in progressive circles in recent years, leading to a heightened awareness of the damaging effects that monopolization is having on both consumers and businesses.
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A failure by ministers to reach an accord could delay plans by Justin Trudeau, Canada's prime minister, to sign the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement in Brussels later this month, and would also highlight a growing hostility to globalization and open markets.
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The data comes from the Open Markets Institute, and shows how much more dominant the largest companies have become over the last 15 years, in one industry after another — airlines, car rental, credit rating, meat processing, private prisons, railroads, shipbuilding and much more.
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Barry Lynn, executive director of the Open Markets Institute, an organization that fights monopoly power, argued that Facebook's problems grew out of its business model and the legal and regulatory vacuum in which it has operated — not the man who runs it.
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CAIRO, March 23 (Reuters) - United Arab Emirates ministry of health has decided to close shopping centres, all commercial centres, and open markets, except for the fish, vegetables and meat markets and will limit restaurants to delivery services, state news agency said on Sunday.
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Several members of the Federal Open Markets Committee, which sets Fed interest rates, have spoken out against cutting over the past four days, even as confirmed cases topped 80,000 amid new breakouts in Italy and a sharp increase in cases in South Korea.
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"In terms of economic stability in the future, that [inflation] is what is likely to give us the most problems and create the biggest recession," Volcker said in a 1979 Federal Open Markets Committee meeting months before he became the central bank's chairman.
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But as his star has climbed, Mr. Liu has struggled to overcome resistance to a program of measured economic liberalization and more open markets that he argues is critical to China's long-term economic health — and that is generally favored by Washington.
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U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said on Tuesday they would be looking for China to agree to concrete steps with specific delivery dates to open markets, including more access for U.S. firms in the financial services sector.
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"This absolutely strengthens the idea that Google is using its dominant position to make its way into every possible industry that relates to data and newer methods for pushing advertising," Daniel Hanley, a policy analyst with the Open Markets Institute, told Recode.
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"We are encouraged by the emphasis on the importance of research and development, open markets and competition, but would urge policymakers to avoid measures that would increase bureaucracy and costs and limit the benefit that 5G can bring," it said in a statement.
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Sandeep Vaheesan, the legal director at the Open Markets Institute, who wrote a brief supporting the plaintiffs last year, said antitrust litigation is complicated and convoluted, and pointed out that the case heard by the Supreme Court had already been going on for a decade.
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" But whereas Western governments see such efforts as benign, Mr Putin considers them a danger, they continue: "Western-style democracy and open markets are a clear threat to a Russian political system that thrives as a closed one-body network and an economic protection racket.
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Speaking at a conference hosted by the Open Markets Institute on Tuesday ahead of the ruling, he said the government's lawsuit was "potentially historic" in its effort to keep a combined AT&T-Time Warner from becoming a "gatekeeper to competition" in cable television.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Mike Pence on Tuesday put Japan on notice that Washington wants results "in the near future" from talks it hopes will open markets to U.S. goods, adding that the dialogue could lead to negotiations on a two-way trade deal.
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The two parties can claim success for their open markets policy following months of protest and uncertainty as well as the actions of U.S. President Donald Trump, who withdrew from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and wants to rework the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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"Jeff Bezos wants Amazon to be the core infrastructure on which everyone depends, and then use this power to exclude competitors and privilege his own businesses," said Matthew Stoller, a fellow at the anti-monopoly non-profit Open Markets Institute, on Amazon's business model.
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And the president pointed out today this deal will open markets for farmers in America, workers, increase investment lead to greater prosperity in both the U.S. and the European Union, win-win, also make trade fairer and more reciprocal as favorite word as he said.
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"He brought a voice of rationality to the White House and was a strong advocate for globalization," said Bill George, a board member of Goldman Sachs, adding that Wall Street was concerned not just about steel tariffs but also a move away from open markets.
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"Facebook was looking for a way to discredit us so they weaponized false allegations of anti-Semitism to distract from the critique, which they're actually quite afraid of, which is the critique of monopolization," said Matt Stoller, policy director at the Open Markets Institute.
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The biggest drivers of markets this week however are yet to come, with analysts identifying Tuesday's U.S. congressional mid-term elections, as well as any potential acknowledgement of stronger U.S. growth at the Federal Open Markets Committee meeting later this week, as key events.
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Schmidt first joined the Google board in 2000, and he and Google have financially supported New America throughout Lynn's many years of working there — including eight years when Schmidt chaired the board and his family foundation donated to support Open Markets' work on food policy.
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" (Hollywood Reporter) • Matt Stoller of the Open Markets Institute writes, "Both Democrats and Republicans have to be careful not to open the door to an equally dangerous prospect — of dangerous monopolists wielding flimsy or even untrue political threats to justify their concentrations of power.
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"This would be a joke of a fine — a two-weeks-of-revenue, parking-ticket-level penalty for destroying democracy," said Matt Stoller, a fellow at the Open Markets Institute, a think tank that is a vocal critic of the power of tech companies.
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"Open markets allow the process of adjusting of prices to new information to continue, and they provide liquidity to the benefit of investors by allowing them to rebalance portfolios and meet contractual obligations," said Maijoor, who heads the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA).
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From her onetime seat as the deputy director of the Open Markets Institute, a research and advocacy group focused on antitrust, she spent three years as a thorn in Silicon Valley's side, guiding a coalition of liberal groups that demanded federal officials break up Facebook.
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Franken, who has been critical on antitrust matters regarding major telecommunications firms like AT&T and Time Warner said during an event held by the think tank Open Markets Institute, that web firms should be held to the same standards with net neutrality-styled provisions.
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Several members of the Federal Open Markets Committee, which sets Fed interest rates, have spoken out against cutting rates over the past four days, even as confirmed cases topped 80,85033 amid new breakouts in Italy and a sharp increase in cases in South Korea.
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The Republican has given mixed messages on how he would do business with the UK. He has previously dismissed trade deals and open markets, but has also said that the UK would be at the front of the queue for a trade deal after Brexit.
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What the company needs now, executives say, is the open markets and steady economy that have allowed it to grow its workforce from below 22011 at the end of the 2007-2009 recession to almost 1,500 today - partly on the basis of exports to China.
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Society's failure to adhere to liberal tenets of open markets and a contest of ideas extracts a painful toll on the economy The tragedy of our generation is that our dynamic innovation economy and the most pressing needs of our society are ships passing in the night.
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Such a rethink has been one of the core demands of a growing movement, led by groups like the Open Markets Institute, which seeks to return antitrust law back to its roots as a constraint not only on anticompetitive conduct, but also on corporate power more broadly.
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Depending on what data is visible to them, there may be some legal kinks to work out, writes Matt Stoller, a fellow at the Open Markets Institute: Since the Civil War, the United States has had a general prohibition on the intersection between banking and commerce.
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"Amazon's dominance poses a question of how comfortable we are with more and more of our commerce going through a single company," Lina Khan, director of legal policy with think tank the Open Markets Institute and author of a groundbreaking paper on Amazon's potential antitrust issues.
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Although Ms Le Pen's loss follows the failure of her ally Geert Wilders to gain traction in the Dutch election two months ago, there is concern that the EU remains vulnerable to anti-establishment movements that whip up public support by attacking free trade and open markets.
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"Perhaps given that the FOMC (Federal Open Markets Committee) was relatively hawkish, saying that the weakness we had seen in the data was temporary, the market might expect the minutes to be on the hawkish side," said Athanasios Vamvakidis, currency strategist at Bank of America in London.
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The essay competition is part of Open Future, an editorial initiative to remake the case for the newspaper's commitment to individual dignity, open markets, limited government and a faith in human progress brought about by debate and reform, at a time when these values are under assault.
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The Federal Reserve will hold interest rates steady for another month and praised the economy's "solid" growth, the central bank's policy arm announced Wednesday,The Federal Open Markets Committee is keeping the money market interest rate range between 1 to 1.25 percent, opting against a raise.
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BERLIN, June 20 (Reuters) - Germany wants to make progress in its presidency of the Group of Twenty leading economies on improving free and fair trade and will try to get broad agreement on open markets at next month's leaders' summit, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Tuesday.
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The authors argue that "extractive governments" use controls to enforce the power of a select few, while "inclusive governments" create open markets that allow citizens to spend and invest money freely, and that economic growth does not always indicate the long-term health of a country.
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Barry Lynn, executive director of the Open Markets Institute, a research and advocacy group, points to the states' investigation of Google, joined by 50 attorneys general and led by Ken Paxton, a conservative Republican attorney general in Texas, as a sign of the changing times in antitrust.
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But we do also recognise the concerns that there are around dumping and unfair practices, and it's about getting the right balance in the global trading system so that we can have the benefits of open markets, while being properly and appropriately protected from unfair practices.
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Morgan Stanley's tweedy underwriters dealt almost exclusively with the chief executives of corporate America — American Telephone, General Electric, Exxon, DuPont and other giants — playing golf, taking leisurely lunches, giving advice and managing the sales of bond and stock issues without dickering over commissions or competing in open markets.
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This is very important that we look at this as a G20 because we need to be able to get the facts out there to justify, to defend the continued support of free trade and open markets because I can tell you it's of critical importance to Australia.
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Open Markets will examine the future of capitalism; Open Ideas will look at free speech; Open Society will discuss the balance between diversity, identity politics and political correctness; Open Borders will focus on immigration and Open Progress will consider whether technology is still a route to human progress.
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"One advantage of (Britain's) withdrawal is that hopefully we will have a good partner outside of the EU with similar focus when it comes to open markets and regulation," Joerg Gasser, head of the State Secretariat for International Financial Matters, said in the NZZ interview published on Friday.
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While India enjoys full access to America's open markets, U.S. manufacturers and workers continue to face substantial Indian trade barriers, such as high tariff rates, burdensome and unclear customs regulations, forced localization barriers, inadequate intellectual property protections and investment limitations that block U.S. exports and discriminate against U.S. products.
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A letter sent Saturday by 25 current and former members of the New America Fellows Program criticized the organization's initial response to a New York Times story detailing how a major New America donor, Google, pushed Barry Lynn and his anti-monopoly Open Markets program out of the foundation.
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Importantly, it also reflects regionally specific supply and demand conditions in the U.S. The purpose of S&P Global Platts' independent price assessments is to publish prices reflective of market value, as determined by buyers and sellers in the open markets, and bring greater transparency to spot physical markets.
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Gold prices also climbed, boosted by a weaker U.S. dollar after U.S. President Donald Trump announced the disbanding of two high-profile business advisory councils, and minutes from July's meeting of the Federal Open Markets Committee showed that policymakers had grown increasingly worried about weak U.S. inflation readings.
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David Malpass, the Treasury Department's under secretary for international affairs, said before the Group of 20 finance ministers gathering in Argentina on Sunday that China had reversed its path toward more open markets, in favor of greater subsidies of its industries and more shoring-up of state-owned enterprises.
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"As more and more information comes out about how these guys operate, it's becoming conventional wisdom among Democrats that there is a serious policy problem here," said Matt Stoller, policy director at the Open Markets Institute, who has called for big tech platforms to be broken up and regulated.
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"To have the richest man in the world [who is] clearly a predatory actor demanding tax subsidies, it just kind of illustrated to people that there's a dark side to Amazon," said Matt Stoller, a fellow at the Open Markets Institute who is writing a book about monopoly power.
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He ran a New America initiative called Open Markets that has led a growing chorus of liberal criticism of the market dominance of telecom and tech giants, including Google, which is now part of a larger corporate entity known as Alphabet, for which Mr. Schmidt serves as executive chairman.
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The Fed left short-term interest rates unchanged at the conclusion of its policy meeting on Wednesday and despite the dissent of three members, who voted in favor of raising rates, the Federal Open Markets Committee largely reduced the number of rate hikes they foresee in 2017 and 2018.
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That means that plus the USMCA deal with Canada and Mexico, you could be looking at a second half export boom in the United States, which will boost economic growth substantially, as a consequence of the President's tough trade policies to open markets and stuff on fair practice.
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"As long as it is profitable to break the law, corporations, which are profit-maximizing entities by design, will continue to break the law," said Sally Hubbard, director of enforcement strategy at think tank the Open Markets Institute and former assistant attorney general in New York state's antitrust bureau.
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Think tanks like the Open Markets Institute and the Roosevelt Institute have argued that the FTC, along with the antitrust division of the Justice Department and other law enforcement bodies, should prevent more mergers and potentially even break up companies that appear to be exercising too much market power.
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The New York Times reported late last month that Eric Schmidt, former Google CEO and current executive chairman of Google parent company Alphabet, pressured the New America think tank to cut ties with Open Markets, a program run by researcher Barry Lynn, after Lynn and his group praised the EU's fine.
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"We further urge the administration to leverage multilateral action, join strategic trade agreements that move China toward transparency, competition and open markets," the letter reads, "while resisting the imposition of taxes and trade barriers that would continue to harm American interests, risk our economic future and jeopardize our technological leadership."
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We were created 175 years ago to campaign for liberalism—not the leftish "progressivism" of American university campuses or the rightish "ultraliberalism" conjured up by the French commentariat, but a universal commitment to individual dignity, open markets, limited government and a faith in human progress brought about by debate and reform.
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Already, potato trading between EU countries is common, but most of the rice eaten in Europe is imported, whereas only a small proportion of potatoes come from outside the EU. Some say that more open markets would ensure that if the harvest fails in one country, appetites could still be met.
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On Thursday, advocacy groups like Color of Change and the Open Markets Institute called on the FTC to reestablish WhatsApp and Instagram as independent companies, not because it has broken antitrust laws, but because "Facebook breached its commitments to the Commission regarding the protection of WhatsApp user data," they said.
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"Amazon's dominance poses a question of how comfortable we are with more and more of our commerce going through a single company," Lina Khan, director of legal policy at the Open Markets Institute think tank and the author of a widely read paper criticizing Amazon, told me in an interview.
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The U.S. dollar gained against the yen on Wednesday for the first time in four days after the minutes from the Federal Open Markets Committee's (FOMC) March meeting were released, indicating that central bank members actually seem a little more pessimistic about the chances for any immediate changes in interest rates.
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"For us, that means we stand by open markets and low tariffs," he said He said the possibility of U.S. tariffs on EU cars was very serious and stressed that reductions in international tariffs in the last 40 years and the opening of markets had resulted in major benefits for citizens.
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Beginning in the 1970s, a group of activist lawyers associated with the University of Chicago persuaded courts to gut well-established principles designed to protect open markets and decentralized power, and to replace them with an ideology of efficiency that has contributed to our current crisis of monopoly capitalism and inequality.
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"Truly fixing Facebook's threat to free and fair elections would require fundamental changes to its business model, but Facebook is not going to risk its billion dollars a week in targeted digital advertising revenue unless it's forced to do so," said Sally Hubbard, director of enforcement strategy at Open Markets Institute.
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Lynn's Open Markets group had been vocal supporters of the European Union's decision to slap Google with a record $2.7 billion antitrust fine in June and has advocated a tougher line against the tech giant within the U.S. Slaughter has denied that Schmidt's disapproval had anything to do with Lynn's ouster.
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More recently, the complaints from Western companies have gotten louder, as China's economic growth slows and unease grows about Beijing's failure to deliver on its promise to open markets for foreign companies as well as its Made in China 2025 plan to push for greater self-sufficiency in several industries.
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Several members of the central bank's Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC), which sets Fed monetary policy, said during the July 25-26 meeting that "uncertainty about the course of federal government policy, including in the areas of fiscal policy, trade, and health care" were holding back businesses from hiring and spending.
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As we have repeatedly emphasised during the referendum campaign and since, the best economic option is for us to open up our markets in food and manufacturing to the world by scrapping the EU's protectionist tariffs and non-tariff barriers on these goods, just as we have always had open markets in services.
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"There's no way that shipping costs are less than 75 cents, and there's no way any other company that wants to sell a makeup brush could deliver that for free," said Sally Hubbard, a former New York State antitrust enforcer who now works at Open Markets Institute, an anti-monopoly think tank.
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Malcolm Turnbull: Australia goes to the G20 committed to open markets to trade to innovation to recognizing that our future lies in continuing to raise living standards across the world and the way to do that is by expanding markets, opening our markets, and encouraging the innovation and entrepreneurship that that brings.
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" China has few real allies in the world of trade, he said, and there has rarely been a better opportunity "for the world to assess the presence of a huge player who is now involved in everything, takes advantage of open markets elsewhere and doesn't really open its own market to the West.
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"Amazon's dominance poses a question of how comfortable we are with more and more of our commerce going through a single company," Lina Khan, director of legal policy at the Open Markets Institute think tank and the author of a widely read paper criticizing Amazon, told Vox in an interview last year.
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A successful fundraiser who has gotten Silicon Valley to chip in to an expansion that has led New America to have 250 employees and a well-appointed 20,000 square feet headquarters, Slaughter has also grappled with a 2017 dispute with Barry Lynn, who ran Open Markets, a New America program investigating corporate concentration.
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They included a historic expansion of democracies and open markets, a wave of globalization that created the greatest prosperity and largest global middle class the world has ever seen, and the enlargement the European Union, to 21919 from 19193 members, and NATO, to 21919 from 21945 – deepening ties among the world's leading democracies.
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To the poorest Brazilians, Bolsonaro has promised gainful employment and the preservation of their government benefits; to the middle class, a return of the status they lost while the left-wing Workers' Party was in power; and to the wealthiest Brazilians and investors, open markets, less stringent labor laws, and lower taxes.
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"Zuckerberg is personalizing what is actually an increasing consensus," said Open Markets fellow Matt Stoller, who has said Facebook and other tech titans have only been able to make billions by abusing their market power, amassing revenue on data gathered by tracking users and on content produced by publishers and other third parties.
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TV's "Rising" program features political journalist Paul Steinhauser, who reports on the status of the Democratic presidential primary in New Hampshire; Open Markets Institute fellow Matt Stoller, on the 28500 candidates and policies aimed at the middle class; and College Pulse CEO Terren Klein, who describes the organization's new poll numbers on the 6900 race.
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"We are ready to negotiate and talk with China any time that they are ready for serious and substantive negotiations toward free trade, to reduce tariffs and nontariff barriers, to open markets and allow the most competitive economy in the world — ours — to export more and more goods and services to China," Kudlow said.
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ET features Nina Turner, the national co-chairwoman of the Sanders presidential campaign; Matt Orfalea, video producer with "Rising Up," who created a Sanders video that went viral; Matt Stoller, a fellow at the Open Markets Institute and author of "Goliath," who discusses the NBA controversy tied to Hong Kong demonstrators and China; and Rep.
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"We are ready to negotiate and talk with China any time that they are ready for serious and substantive negotiations toward free trade to reduce tariffs and non-tariff barriers, to open markets, to allow the most competitive economy in the world, ours, to export more and more goods and services to China," Kudlow said.
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In his response, Lynn empathized with Slaughter about the challenges of her role but said that Open Markets had never given advance warning about events and articles in the past, and he did not understand why an employee from Google corporate (Stephanie Valencia, who works on strategic outreach and partnerships for Google) would expect that from him.
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Yes, Google Uses Its Power to Quash Ideas It Doesn't Like—I Know Because It Happened to Me [Updated]llustration: Jim Cooke/GMG, photo: GettyThe story in the New York Times this week was unsettling: The New America Foundation, a major think tank, was getting rid of one of its teams of scholars, the Open Markets group.
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" The Open Markets team organized a 2016 conference, and in the lead-up, when Google expressed worry over representation of its views, Slaughter wrote an email to Lynn, saying, "We are in the process of trying to expand our relationship with Google on some absolutely key points ... just THINK about how you are imperiling funding for others.
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Orrin Hatch called on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate anti-competitive effects from Google's dominance in online ads and search, hinting that similar regulatory pressure may not be far off in the US. But according to Open Markets' Matthew Stoller, the best long-term remedy for Google's dominance has more to do with Google's acquisitions.
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Elizabeth Warren urged antitrust enforcers on Wednesday to pursue big tech companies, like Google and Facebook, that control giant tranches of consumer data: Why it matters: Her comments at an event held by the Open Markets Institute are part of increasing pressure on major tech companies coming from the left, which has typically been supportive of the industry.
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"If the (Federal Open Markets Committee) is willing to ignore the disappointing string of core inflation figures seen during 2017 and continue delivering rate hikes, then the 'mystery' of inflation becomes more of an academic exercise than a market event," said Ian Lyngen, head of U.S. rates strategy at BMO Capital Markets, in a note to clients.
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"Monetary policy might end up being set for areas all over the world by a board of largely Western companies located in California with a pot of hard currency-denominated assets in a potentially unregulated Swiss reserve, rather than by democratically accountable sovereign governments," Matt Stoller, a researcher at the anti-monopoly think tank the Open Markets Institute, wrote.
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Elizabeth WarrenElizabeth Ann WarrenTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Eight Democratic presidential hopefuls to appear in CNN climate town hall In shift, top CEOs say shareholder value not top goal MORE (D-Mass.) will deliver remarks on competition policy and antitrust at an event on monopolies held by left-leaning think tank, Open Markets.
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The civilian IT sector benefited from efforts by the George W. Bush administration to open markets and ensure fair trade and protection of intellectual property by competitors in Japan and the East Asian newly industrialized economies (NIEs), many of which historically employed subsidies and weak intellectual property (IP) laws to gain market share against U.S. firms.
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Buying shares in open markets, as Berkshire often does (it has reported stakes in about 45 other public companies) lets Buffett and his team, led by vice chair Charlie Munger and investment officers Todd Combs and Ted Weschler, avoid paying takeover premiums in order to get a piece of the business, while still building value for Berkshire stockholders.
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Ms Vestager and Ms Goulard will make a strong team developing a distinctive European way of managing new technology and finding a balance between open markets and interventionist industrial strategy in responding to new industrial giants from China and Silicon Valley (Ms Vestager's liberal instincts may collide with the activist mood, personified by Ms Goulard, in Paris and Berlin).
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Matt Stoller, a fellow at the liberal Open Markets Institute who is a scathing critic of Mr. Obama's economic record, said he saw Democrats as caught between their personal reverence for Mr. Obama and the reality that the country faces "existential crises" — on matters like climate change and economic inequality — that Mr. Obama did not resolve.
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Pointing out that the Facebook outage also extended to its other properties, including Instagram and WhatsApp, Sarah Miller, the deputy director at the Open Markets Institute, which is for the break-up of Facebook and other Silicon Valley companies, said, "The more integrated a platform becomes, the greater the risk and reach of epic failures like this one."
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So when the New York Times reported Wednesday that the New America Foundation (a Google-funded think tank) severed ties with Open Markets (an antimonopoly group housed within New America) after complaints from a top Google executive (Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google's parent company), it seemed like a rare glimpse at how Google wields its power behind the scenes.
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Facebook is trying to make an end run around the existing global financial system through the launch of its Libra cryptocurrency; Alphabet, Amazon and Facebook all have designs to dominate the development of artificial intelligence in open markets; and then there's the work these companies are conducting in areas as diverse as healthcare, mobility technologies and even space travel and high-speed networking.
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Al FrankenAlan (Al) Stuart FrankenNative American advocates question 2020 Democrats' commitment Reid says he wishes Franken would run for Senate again Al Franken urges Trump to give new speech after shootings: 'Try to make it sound like you're sincere, even if you're not' MORE (D-Minn.) will speak at an Open Markets Institute event on tech giants and democracy at 12:30 p.m.
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They had much to draw on: Pericles' ideal polity ("not the few but the many govern"), the Hanseatic League (a trade and defense pact in the Middle Ages), the Age of Reason, Adam Smith's advocacy of open markets and the division of labor to enhance the wealth of nations, and Immanuel Kant's conviction that "perpetual peace" depended on democratic nations' conducting vigorous commerce.
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The contrast could not be more stark: Xi Jinping, the first president of China to attend the World Economic Forum in Davos in January, leading the largest Chinese contingent ever and pledging enduring support for free trade and open markets, versus newly inaugurated President Donald Trump promising to "make America First" and threatening renewed trade barriers, especially with China, and dumping the TPP.
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Google has no particular reason to care about airline consolidation (an issue Open Markets has worked on) one way or another, Google promoted its viewpoints on spectrum policy and net neutrality as pro-competition, and indeed the Obama administration's competition policy issue brief was paired with an FCC initiative to bring competition to the cable set-top box industry that Google favored.
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While he has defended Mr. Trump's trade policies on television and in other public appearances, Mr. Hassett has often been a voice inside the administration for a more traditionally conservative view of trade — one that pushes to open markets to trade and that often opposes tariffs, Mr. Trump's favorite weapon in his disputes with China, Mexico and other trading partners.
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Ms Vestager and Ms Goulard want to use their clout to develop a distinctively European way of managing new technology and finding a balance between open markets and interventionist industrial strategy in responding to new industrial giants from China and Silicon Valley (tough Ms Vestager's liberal instincts may collide with the activist mood, personified by Ms Goulard, in Paris and Berlin).
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It's all evidence of the success of the agenda that President Trump campaigned on and, working with our allies on Capitol Hill in our first two years, we were able to deliver on, to cut taxes, roll back regulation, unleash American energy, and fight to open markets and fight to create new fair trading relationships with nations around the world.
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Matt Stoller, a fellow at the Open Markets Institute who focuses on monopoly power, said that the last time he "saw this kind of collective temper tantrum by all their trade groups was" during the legislative battle over a pair of bills aimed at curtailing sex trafficking online, which altered Section 230 to remove liability protection for sites that "knowingly" publish any material pertaining to sex trafficking.
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"This transaction should not be permitted because Google already holds a dominant position in the digital marketplace, health data is critical to the future of that marketplace, and the data protection concerns stemming from the acquisition will have far-reaching consequences including a dramatic erosion of consumer privacy," wrote the groups, which included the Open Markets Institute, Public Citizen and the Electronic Privacy Information Center.
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Farhad Manjoo of the NYT writes that plans on how to regulate the likes of Facebook and Google are vague, and those companies do not cleanly fit traditional notions of what constitutes dangerous corporate power: For many years, [Barry Lynn, the director of the Open Markets Institute] said, tech giants have been considered essentially untouchable — so big that even contemplating taking them on prompts political paralysis.
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"Today we face the gravest threat to our democracy, to our individual liberty in Europe since the war and the United States perhaps since the civil war," said Barry Lynn, a former journalist and senior fellow at the Google-backed New America Foundation think tank in Washington, D.C., where he had directed the Open Markets Program — until it was shut down after he wrote critically about, er, Google.
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The Federal Reserve is becoming increasingly concerned with their inflation-rate target, according to the minutes from the latest Federal Open Markets Committee meeting, the last chaired by Janet YellenJanet Louise YellenThink of this economy as an elderly friend: Old age means coming death On The Money: Rising recession fears pose risk for Trump | Stocks suffer worst losses of 2019 | Trump blames 'clueless' Fed for economic worries Recession fears surge as stock markets plunge MORE.
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However, the May reading "illustrates that the factory sector is continuing to struggle in the face of weak global demand" and is consistent with GDP growth of just 1.5%, according to The report comes amid a growing tariff battle between the U.S. and China, with negotiations at a standstill as the Trump administration seeks concessions and getting more open markets for American goods and to get tighter provisions against the stealing for intellectual property and forced technology transfer.
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At the open markets went up: In addition to the federal government's agreement with congressional leadership to make it rain, the agencies tasked with overseeing the nation's health are moving forward quickly to bring new testing capabilities online in an effort to get a clearer picture of the spread of the novel coronavirus in the U.S. — THE FDA will create an around-the-clock hotline for labs if they can't get authorized tests, need to process tests or have issues validating a test.
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"By bringing together one of the nation's leading content distributors and one of the world's largest TV and entertainment companies, this merger invites higher prices, fewer choices and worse service for consumers," the Massachusetts senator said during an event with the left-wing think tank Open Markets Institute in Washington, D.C. Warren said, however, that while she thought AT&T's merger with Time Warner and others like it should not be approved by the federal government, the DOJ's move to stop the merger still raises concerns.
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When the Federal Reserve announced last week that Fed Chair Janet YellenJanet Louise YellenThink of this economy as an elderly friend: Old age means coming death On The Money: Rising recession fears pose risk for Trump | Stocks suffer worst losses of 28503 | Trump blames 'clueless' Fed for economic worries Recession fears surge as stock markets plunge MORE had scheduled a speech for March 22019, which happened to be the last day before the Fed's self-imposed "blackout" period before its March 15 Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC) meeting, it did not take much imagination to conclude that she had an important message to relay.
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