Consumers and the Future of Antitrust

PPI’s Project on Consumers and the Future of Antitrust originated in 2023. Working Americans have grown frustrated with the high and rising cost of living in the U.S. At the same time, they are more aware of large firms, high prices, limited choice, and sluggish economic growth in highly concentrated markets where firms exercise market power. These include everything from essentials like healthcare, food, and housing, to labor markets where working Americans compete for jobs.

These growing tensions have shaped how working Americans vote in critical elections at the local, state, and national levels. But political messaging around markets, competition, and consumer welfare has, in recent cases, either missed the mark, been abandoned altogether, or manifested in antitrust agendas that do not focus enough on consumers, or even weaponize antitrust for political purposes. 

PPI’s Project on Consumers and the Future of Antitrust organizes an important policy dialogue around how antitrust enforcement and competition policy can work better to protect the welfare of consumers. This means pragmatic enforcement by resource-constrained government agencies that prioritizes markets where harmful monopolies, mergers, and anticompetitive agreements hit consumers hard in their paychecks and pocketbooks because of higher prices, lower quality, and less innovation. 

PPI supports a policy focus on antitrust and consumers with research-based advocacy and commentary; education and communication involving Congress and the media; and conferences and events. In 2025, PPI released the inaugural episode of the podcast: In Competition We Trust, where we talk to antitrust and policy experts about key issues in a format that makes them accessible and understandable to a broad community of interested listeners. 

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