@balancedeconomy
We are a not-for-profit, globally-focused, anti-monopoly organisation whose mission is to reclaim our ability to restructure our economies, by collectively constraining corporate power and building a genuinely democratic economy.
Book our “Constraining Corporate Power” session at @scoteconfest.bsky.social — 5.10pm, Saturday 21 March. Explore how we rebalance the economy and strengthen democracy. Tickets https://tickettailor.pulse.ly/xhur4irs3b
How much more evidence do we need? The ultra-rich and the governments supporting them will destroy everything for the sake of profit, power and pride. Nothing is precious to them - not human life, not the living world - except their own wealth and status. Our survival depends on resisting them.
This is why we’re backing the @costoflivingaction.bsky.social: to win a transformative package so households can afford life’s essentials especially with energy bills set to rise again.
#CostOfLivingCrisis #EnergyBills
https://substack.pulse.ly/ff8wujbhop
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Profiteering monopolies exploit conflict and chaos to hike essential prices as we’re seeing in the Middle East. It’s fuelling a brutal cost‑of‑living crisis while they post record profits.
https://substack.pulse.ly/zbwdoifi1p
#CostOfLiving #IranCrisis
We’ve submitted fresh evidence to the CMA showing how unchecked mergers harm competition, workers, and consumers. The UK can lead with bold, pro‑fairness enforcement. Full report: https://balancedeconomy.pulse.ly/d2zerymk03 #DigitalMarkets #BigTech #CompetitionPolicy
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The Warner Bros bidding race shows how fast entertainment power is consolidating and how little real oversight exists. Big Tech + Big Media = shrinking choice for all of us.
#MediaMonopoly #Antitrust #BigTech
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Our new CMA submission sets out why stronger merger control is essential to protect fair, open markets. Big Tech consolidation isn’t inevitable — regulators can act. Read the full report: https://balancedeconomy.pulse.ly/inq3gjwqfp #Antitrust #FairMarkets #TechRegulation
Book our “Constraining Corporate Power” session at @scoteconfest.bsky.social — 5.10pm, Saturday 21 March. Explore how we rebalance the economy and strengthen democracy. Tickets https://tickettailor.pulse.ly/kiex8jvtee
A priority for future summits should be placing meaningful work on AI governance in the hands of scientists, policymakers and civil society actors: https://balancedeconomy.pulse.ly/osjievvnoc
#AISummit #BigTech
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The scramble for Warner Bros is another warning: a handful of giants are shaping culture, markets and democracy. We need real checks on monopoly power.
#MediaPower #PlatformAccountability #Antitrust
https://substack.pulse.ly/fj848oglwa
Blue Warner Bros. logo with stylized "WB" initials inside a shield shape.
The Warner Bros bidding race shows how fast entertainment power is consolidating and how little real oversight exists. Big Tech + Big Media = shrinking choice for all of us.
#MediaMonopoly #Antitrust #BigTech
Like, repost & subscribe. https://substack.pulse.ly/fpe5vj0nnt
This man is on message and does have a point as #Blizzard2026 hits NYC, how private equity owning homes means some people are homeless due to private equity firms fueling the US housing crisis dailydot.com/blizzard-str...
India’s AI Summit: showed no through route to balanced people-centred global governance:
https://balancedeconomy.pulse.ly/zer5y6fvn2
#AISummit #Bigtech
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Join the Balanced Economy Project at Scotland’s Economics Festival in Edinburgh, 19–21 March 2026. A public celebration of big economic ideas with leading thinkers and campaigners. Details + tickets
We are excited to be part of this so please do join us and others for the @scoteconfest.bsky.social, Edinburgh, 19th-21st March.
Let's make meaningful change!
One of #AI’s leading voices is sounding the alarm: a handful of firms are shaping a technology that affects all of us. Democratic oversight, not speculative bubbles, should decide the future of AI.
Our latest Counterbalance: https://substack.pulse.ly/ycicqaybvb #BigTech
Poverty is relative. This is why inequality is so damaging to every society. Scotland's Economics Festival. www.scoteconfest.org/ 19th to 21st March 2026. Tickets are available now.
The UK has agreed a deal with Trump that will see the NHS pay pharma companies much higher drugs prices.
Sign our petition urging health secretary Wes Streeting to come clean on the true costs of this deal – and agree to a democratic vote in parliament.
act.globaljustice.org.uk/node/4686
This week we look at Yoshua Bengio who cuts through the AI hype isn’t “innovation” - it’s concentrated power, investor pressure, and corner‑cutting on public safety. If we want real progress, we need to confront #monopoly power head‑on.
https://substack.pulse.ly/kdwzz7jafd
#AI #BigTech
We support @globaljusticenow.bsky.social and others calling for full transparency around tech deals negotiated during Mandelson's time as US Ambassador.
The EU’s unconditional clearance of Google/Wiz is a mistake. Civil society statement by @balancedeconomy.bsky.social, @openmarkets.bsky.social, @somoamsterdam.bsky.social and @rebalance-now.bsky.social. rebalance-now.de/en/the-eus-c...
Bringing BIG economic ideas to Scotland - Edinburgh, 19th to 21st March 2026. Tickets are available now. Book here: www.scoteconfest.org/
We are supporting the @costoflivingaction.bsky.social campaign to call on the government to end this crisis of #costofliving
Along with other civil society organisations across Europe, warn that the European Commission’s unconditional approval of #Google’s acquisition of #Wiz is a serious mistake.
https://balancedeconomy.pulse.ly/p3bpmizeze
#BigTech
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🤳 Open phone for one thing. 1h later, you remember it again, after feeling your brain melted by doomscrolling and brainrot.
That’s not a personal failure — it’s by design. The EU wants to curb it. Big Tech is #lobbying hard to keep you hooked.
👀 our new report 👇
corporateeurope.org/en/2026/02/a...
Deepfakes aren’t just an #AI issue they’re a #BigTech accountability failure. Platform scale, weak safeguards and slow enforcement let harm spread faster than responses.
Our weekly Counterbalance is out: https://substack.pulse.ly/ludmhf5pj7
Our Exec Director Claire Godfrey was quoted in @TechPolicyPress on the EU’s Competitiveness Compass.
One year on, Europe is still far from tech independence - “more narrative shift than concrete progress.” #TechPolicy #DigitalSovereignty #EU
https://techpolicy.pulse.ly/b6ax1bjljk
Great work by @wemoveeurope.bsky.social - This Valentines let's send cards to the EU with the message "Break Up with Big Tech"
#bigtech #EU
Europe’s toxic relationship with Big Tech. Check out the hundreds of postcards created calling on Europe to break up with Big Tech this Valentine’s Day:
www.instagram.com/p/DUSsBOtEsg...
@wemoveeurope.bsky.social @balancedeconomy.bsky.social
Banning kids from social media may sound tough, but it dodges the real issue: unchecked Big Tech power. Without regulating platforms and algorithms, harm just gets displaced, not fixed. https://substack.pulse.ly/lazmnov7vr
#BigTech #OnlineSafety #Regulation