Society: Issues: Economic: Monopolies_and

Society: Issues: Economic: Monopolies_and_Oligopolies

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News: Current Events: Business and Economy: Mergers and Monopolies (27)
News: Current Events: Business and Economy: Mergers and Monopolies: Media Consolidation (18)

The Arthritic Hand of Oligopoly
A few huge corporations control many markets and industries, to the detriment of society. This is an analysis of the problem.

Bringing Consumer Choice to Electricity
Position paper by Tom DeLay arguing that government-mandated monopoly production and pricing for electricity be ended.

GATA and LeMetropole Campaign
Extensive multi-year research has led the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee (GATA) to the conclusion that the gold market is being overtly manipulated; and that the relationship of available physical gold to outstanding gold loans poses a serious risk to the U.S. and global financial systems.

Government Monopoly
Your government is a kind of monopoly, too, with all the problems of any other monopoly. What should be done about it?

Postmaster General Foresees End to Mail Monopoly
The post office monopoly on delivering letters will fade away but the agency will maintain a secure place in America, former Postmaster General Marvin Runyon predicted.

Power Elites & Monopoly Power
This article deals with exploitative monopolies, their causes and cure and with such ideas as laissez-faire economics, monopoly, regulations, and socialism.

School Choice Would Break the Education Monopoly
What are American taxpayers getting for all those dollars spent on public education? Not nearly enough, according to education analysts.

Teachers' Organizations Seek to Break Education Union Monopoly
Monopolies are bad, and that includes union monopolies like the one in education...but some organizations are struggling to give teachers more choice.

Union Corruption: Why It Happens, How to Combat It
Why are so many unions so corrupt? Because laws grant them a monopoly on people's jobs...

Egomania vs. Merger-Mania in the Media Biz
Personality and management in media conglomerates. From Business Week online. (October 7, 1999)

Cato Institute - Intel's Sell Out
How Intel betrayed the information community when it settled with the US Federal Trade Commission. (March 26, 1999)

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