So they can create monopolies without creating monopolies, which is really the question for our legislators.
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Monopolies When most people think about antitrust, they picture big monopolies abusing consumers with extortionate prices.
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But monopolies are still monopolies — why not just cut service and bleed profits out of the system?
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Obamacare monopolies aren't true monopolies; other health plans can decide to rejoin marketplaces and undercut existing health plans' prices.
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Most government services are monopolies, or near monopolies, and therefore have lacked the market forces that produce better solutions.
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They are precluded by the way the US structures its electric utility sector, as a patchwork of monopolies and quasi-monopolies.
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They are to some degree natural monopolies, and they won their monopoly, in most cases, fair and square, but they are natural monopolies.
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Even though it's uncommon these days, the U.S. has a history of nationalizing and breaking up large companies that run monopolies or pseudo-monopolies.
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The larger narrative surrounding the decline of local news goes something like this: For decades, newspapers had monopolies (or near-monopolies) over printed advertisements.
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And in the last century, as courts have censured other monopolies, academics and jurists have noticed a pattern: Monopolies and technology often seem intertwined.
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Khanna has called for a new calculus for determining monopolies that includes a comprehensive review that would more easily label massive technology companies as monopolies.
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Online monopolies such as Facebook, Google, and Twitter should be regulated to prevent abuses — just as the government regulates other commercial monopolies to protect consumers.
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" Tom Steyer said, "Monopolies have to be dealt with.
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America's health care system relies on local monopolies (such as a health care provider centered at the sole major hospital in a city) and national monopolies, notably pharmaceutical companies holding exclusive patents.
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"The entire post-Verizon acquisition of Yahoo has been a string of ghastly errors and missteps and so possibly the explanation is just 'the curse of bigness'—that the supposed efficiencies of vertical monopolies are myths, and the reason that these vertical monopolies are so profitable is because they're monopolies, not because they're efficient," Doctorow said.
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Monopolies and vested interests are yet another source of resentment.
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Monopolies, for Mr Abbas, remain a prerogative of the state.
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FDA wants to shorten new drug monopolies to cut costs .
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Social media like Facebook work best when they're effectively monopolies.
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But monopolies and oligopolies are like corporate power on steroids.
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Telecommunications network providers and ISPs are rarely, if ever, monopolies.
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And monopolies are an enemy to all of these things.
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Monopolies have been as ephemeral as classical economics would predict.
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"Art is one of those few legal monopolies" Conte philosophizes.
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Indeed, there is a line of thinking that celebrates monopolies.
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IS THAT A PROBLEM OF MONOPOLIES IN THE BANKING SYSTEM?
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And they're not particularly monopolies, but they kind of are.
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Such monopolies must either be regulated aggressively or broken up.
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Cartels, monopolies and lobbying are common ways to extract rents.
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Without it, mom and pop shops disappear and monopolies develop.
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Data and transparency will trump regional monopolies and entrenched inefficiency.
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American elites are monopolizing progress, and monopolies can be broken.
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When you regulate monopolies, you see them around every corner.
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This would encourage competition where there are now natural monopolies.
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Now, monopolies are exercised through code, rather than just law.
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However, those industries are natural monopolies and fund management is not.
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If monopolies are causing prices to rise, why is inflation low?
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Monopolists always defend their monopolies by arguing that competition is wasteful.
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But today, the size and scope of these monopolies is different.
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This could also align some powerful private companies alongside government monopolies.
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Monopolies that crank out profits on little investment are very valuable.
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Generic drug manufacturers can become monopolies, with extraordinary price-setting power.
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The Korea Fair Trade Commission regulates monopolies and upholds consumer rights.
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Look through history, though, and taxi monopolies look anything but impregnable.
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" "We thought [biosimilar pharmaceuticals] would be natural monopolies, and they're not.
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You have state monopolies being created, being recreated, and you have.
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Rough justice slowly gave way to organized state monopolies on violence.
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Generally speaking, monopolies reduce the quality of a product or service.
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Taxing monopolies only worsens their low usage of labor and capital.
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"Natural monopolies" such as power grids will be replaced by e.g.
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It's plan was to be a monopoly maker, and monopolies suck.
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Patents that the government provides to drug companies necessarily create monopolies.
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Patents, for example, are government-granted monopolies meant to incentivize innovation.
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Yeah, individually odd monopolies, too, because there's so many of them.
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Although some later-day critics find "monopolies" in markets that appear highly competitive by commonsense measures, there's a near universal consensus amongst economists that monopolies on sales gained through unfair means are almost always bad for consumers.
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Pharmaceuticals use patent-created monopolies to jack up the price of drugs
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A capitalistic society despises monopolies, because they stifle -- among other things -- innovation.
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Elizabeth Warren can explain how big banks and monopolies cheat ordinary Americans.
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Sanders's plan also calls for franchise caps to prevent monopolies or profiteering.
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By building decentralised alternatives, the power of those monopolies could be broken.
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Today only about 6% of electricity users get their power from monopolies.
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Free marketeers, including this newspaper, fretted about a new age of monopolies.
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Should companies be permitted to become monopolies from their ownership of data?
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"Monopolies on repair are unfortunately the new normal," she told hearing attendees.
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"Telecommunications network providers and ISPs are rarely, if ever, monopolies," Jamison asserted.
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But the lower prices offered by monopolies come at a steep cost.
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"Private monopolies are indefensible and intolerable," the party's platform declared in 22020.
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In fact, most monopolies are created by the government through exclusive contracts.
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They did away with government monopolies in finance, insurance, broadcasting, and telecommunications.
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It is a business ethics problem, and this is how monopolies develop.
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Both supported Warren's "big ideas" and her eagerness to bust up monopolies.
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This kind of power doesn't even require employers to hold absolute monopolies.
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A second feature of monopolies is that everybody wants to own one!
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In the 1930s, monopolies were challenged broadly as a threat to democracy.
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SZ: The tech monopolies actually diverge from the fundamental principles of capitalism.
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Donald Trump appealed to voters, in part, by attacking the tech monopolies.
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The tariff didn't create Gilded Age monopolies, but it abetted their rise.
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An era of accountability for Facebook and other monopolies may be beginning.
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"These massive tech companies have close to data monopolies," Mr. Hansen said.
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She called them monopolies that abuse their dominant position in the marketplace.
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Two, many of these companies have created monopolies within their own ecosystems.
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Skyrocketing pharmaceutical prices are a result of overlapping market failures and monopolies.
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While almost all of the hand-wringing about tech monopolies is overblown.
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The Sherman Act primarily prevented price-fixing among competitors and market monopolies.
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Foreign companies have been waiting for Ethiopia to open its state monopolies.
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Sanders, Warren, and Buttigieg all talked about breaking up big corporate monopolies.
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Because I think that there was a sense of zero price monopolies.
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And you know the answer for the other principle, neutralization of network monopolies.
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She rejected the idea that free markets create undesirable results such as monopolies.
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This is a first amendment issue and we need accountability of these monopolies.
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The narrow scope of personalize drugs could also raise the problem of monopolies.
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Schumpeter thought monopolies were temporary castles that were blown away by new competitors.
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"This is especially important so that monopolies have no advantage over small businesses."
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Your fears about emerging monopolies are overblown (Special report on competition, November 17th).
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These powers to say "no" depend on market-dominant positions and near-monopolies.
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The Obama administration says the $37 billion deal could create Medicare Advantage monopolies.
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This might create startups tomorrow, but will not stop firms exploiting monopolies today.
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Founder Christian Wentzel sees the project as a solution to the energy monopolies.
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Economics demonstrates that monopolies lead to suboptimal output, decreased quality, and higher prices.
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In fact, monopolies are one issue that activists want the platform to address.
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The alternative is watching our democracy be strangled by corporate monopolies and clickbait.
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Public policy should protect consumers, not monopolies, especially those that threaten global stability.
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It is ripe for rent-seeking: profits are huge and monopolies arise naturally.
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These changes have to do with monopolies, patents, executive pay and other matters.
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I do believe that platform cooperatives offer an alternative to these platform monopolies.
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But a policy that just creates domestic steel monopolies does nobody any good.
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High prices and monopolies are not delivering innovation that responds to people's needs.
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In part, Son has said he's been driven by a disdain for monopolies.
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The monopolies of the past engaged in price-gouging and became less inventive.
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Utilities, airports and other natural monopolies have often faced complex and detailed regulation.
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The point is that patent monopolies are tools for providing incentives to create.
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Cracking down on monopolies is not enough to defeat propaganda on its own.
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Oh, absolutely, no, they are as aggressive a monopoly as monopolies can be.
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But industrial monopolies are nothing new along the cutthroat path to artistic immortality.
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And in order to preserve those monopolies, they have to keep pushing surveillance.
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Monopolies don't restrict competition with noticeable barriers because that's how they get caught.
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Just like today's, companies of the future will form monopolies and seek rents.
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To rein in monopolies, maybe we need to rethink what a monopoly is.
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As Vox's David Roberts explained in 2015, utilities companies essentially operate as monopolies.
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Bernie Sanders came pretty close last week by going after multinationals' near-monopolies.
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The Department of Justice broke up monopolies like Standard Oil and AT&T.
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Monopolies are, of course, bad for consumers, workers, and antithetical to healthy competition.
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Then, the focus was on breaking up monopolies, prohibiting cartels and blocking mergers.
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However, as reported by the National Broadband Plan, cable companies are practically monopolies.
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Among the most eye-popping (pun intended) multi-brand monopolies is in eyeglasses.
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It makes sense, considering these companies are granted patent monopolies for their products.
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It might mean seeking to limit the price-distorting power of hospital monopolies.
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Republicans and Democrats agree that state-created monopolies are typically far from ideal.
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However, the traditional remedy for monopolies, breaking them up, is often not suitable.
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Tom Steyer: Our government must deal with monopolies by enforcing our antitrust laws.
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Many Americans have regarded monopolies as threats to market competition and individual freedom.
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And there were two primary principles people brought to bear on the transport monopolies.
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MONOPOLIES ARE GOOD—so long as they can be challenged, however remote the possibility.
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How would you urge people to think of the question of monopolies right now?
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But regulators, in the U.S. at least, have raised very few concerns about monopolies.
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The move was likely to boost local monopolies rather than encouraging competition, they said.
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Union power is largely restricted to the public sector these days, where monopolies exist.
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It would be "utterly wrong in principle" to encourage monopolies at home, he says.
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The government has promised to break up monopolies, tackle poverty and attract new investment.
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Sclerotic monopolies such as Ethio Telecom desperately need to be broken up and sold.
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They simply stay out of each other's way and lord over their regional monopolies.
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Go deeper in 4 pages: Better Deal overview; Jobs plan; Drug prices; Corporate monopolies.
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Monopolies, therefore, often push profit-driven corporations to ignore quality while jacking up prices.
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Where the drafters envisioned vibrant insurance markets, we've instead seen many monopolies and duopolies.
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Americans are paying the price, as monopolies now sit atop industries across the nation.
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And like all monopolies, when the government has no competition, the service is lousy.
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By the standards of national oil monopolies, analysts say that Aramco is well run.
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His book, Goliath: How Monopolies Secretly Took Over the World, comes out in June.
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If Democrats directly confront big pharma's monopolies, voters will reward them at the polls.
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When other companies have become monopolies, historically they have been broken up or regulated.
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The commission's slow and scattered approach is an ineffective way to curb tech monopolies.
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"The biggest threats to journalism right now are tech monopolies & concentration of ownership," Rep.
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It sparks innovation, fuels growth, and can help ward off unfair practices like monopolies.
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There's nothing free about this market, a lot of these companies operate as monopolies.
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Giant utility monopolies deserve at least some competition, and consumers should have a choice.
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Nakasone pursued domestic reforms aggressively, privatizing Japan's state-run railway, tobacco and telecommunications monopolies.
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"Monopsonies are the other side of the coin to monopolies," the White House said.
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That includes the granting of monopolies and exclusive franchises for the generation of electricity.
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Free speech is under attack by the Big Tech monopolies that dominate the internet.
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Remember, the alternative is to let private patent monopolies basically set their own price.
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Instead, wealth is being routed to large middlemen, national monopolies, property owners and shareholders.
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Unlike the ACA, however, Republicans are completely united on loosening regulations for telecom monopolies.
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And that government regulation in some capacity is crucial to prevent things like monopolies.
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It is deformed by monopolies and by misguided incentives tied to the payment system.
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If they can&apost, then ultimately we&aposre looking at monopolies and then that you know, that brings in a whole other set of circumstances is are these companies Facebook, Twitter, Google, Apple etcetera, are they monopolies and should they be reined in?
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The concentration of wealth and power, which is what you see in these giant monopolies, again I'm not saying that Amazon or Facebook are monopolies yet, but in the end, they end up not being as good as they seemed at first.
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But other industries, often related to the developers, also operate as monopolies, duopolies or cartels.
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There are big differences between classical monopolies and web companies like Google and Facebook, though.
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At the start of the 20th century America broke up monopolies in railways and energy.
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Yeah, these are the two most powerful information monopolies in the history of the world.
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Tenders go to the lowest bidder, and certain countries have small monopolies in these industries.
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It simply states which sectors are government monopolies and promises prison to anyone who encroaches.
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It's already established that regional hospital monopolies have been a costly trend for the public.
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Salerno is determined to use her experience fighting those monopolies to help drive down costs.
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Classical economists tend to see them as localised monopolies on labour, which impose deadweight losses.
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However, monopolies in these kinds of technologies will benefit the world, rather than harm it.
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Even in the rarefied air of the FANG stocks, monopolies are hard to come by.
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Hear his position on such issues as automation, whether big tech are monopolies, and more.
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His criticisms are wide-ranging, but centre on the idea that they have become monopolies.
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But in frontier markets the brave pioneers of mobile money tend to become near-monopolies.
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A small icon on our phone makes us question the monopolies of the taxi industry.
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"Spite Your Face", another film, picks up themes of wealth, monopolies and abuses of power.
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And monopolies have many opportunities to take bites out of labour's share of the pie.
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Utilities are state-protected monopolies, so we can't have them profiting off their main product.
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Monopolies on all ends of the health care industry make the potential for competition remote.
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It seems that instead of creating a perfect market, the Internet has generated perfect monopolies.
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Take a deeper dive into the people behind the tech monopolies with Winners Take All.
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One consolation is that other former telecoms monopolies, such as Telecom Italia, did even worse.
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Democrats scored their first major victory against corporate monopolies during the presidential election of 19303.
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Others feel progressive: blocking mergers, splitting up monopolies and forcing big business to share infrastructure.
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The company had no choice, they said, since Obiang's family had monopolies on these services.
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Currently, Nevada law allows investor-owned utility companies to be monopolies in their service territories.
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Let's go Microsoft and Google and Apple and all the other big tech monopolies/bullies!
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MNUCHIN: WELL, I WOULD JUST SAY THE ISSUE OF MONOPOLIES ARE OUT OF MY LANE.
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Prescription drugs are currently organized through patent monopolies that give 20 years' exclusivity to treatments.
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Monopolies have a long history in the U.S., particularly for basic utilities such as power.
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But the root danger of monopolies, I'd argue, is massive centers of unaccountable private power.
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Gelernter and Rosenthal think competition, not regulation, is the best way to combat tech monopolies.
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America's global dominance in technology requires fierce competition at home, not the coddling of monopolies.
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One tentative conclusion is that China's industrial policy works better when natural monopolies are involved.
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In September, the Ford Foundation gave it $200,000 to examine how tech monopolies affect workers.
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Warren is on the right track by calling for these monopolies to be broken up.
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The dark history of 20th-century entertainment is that media blockbusters seek to become monopolies.
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But big tech today seems, primarily, about clicks, monopolies and then monetizing at all costs.
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The claim that the only way to compete with the giant tech monopolies is to form giant would-be monopolies of your own will be a talking point in big deals to come, such as the likely attempt to merge Sprint and T-Mobile.
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Net neutrality has been repealed and a few big tech monopolies control most of the internet.
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At an energy industry conference, he said that he was only interested in investing in monopolies.
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Meanwhile, tech monopolies are spending jaw-dropping sums on lobbying to keep regulators off their backs.
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For Democrats, there have been some empty threats of breaking up the pseudo-monopolies, sort of.
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After all, many of these companies have near monopolies in areas like search and social media.
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But in preventing both crises and monopolies, regulation is a better way forward than shrinking finance.
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The growing number of content requirements is actually helping turn giants like Facebook into unchallengeable monopolies.
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It dismantled controls and broke state monopolies - all with a push from the International Monetary Fund.
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Its apparent offences include criticising state-backed monopolies and calling for changes in the tax system.
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Barr noted at his confirmation hearing that companies can grow to monopolies without breaking antitrust law.
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They see it as a means of personal energy independence, being blocked by state-sponsored monopolies.
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" Emanuel told "Squawk Box" it's no surprise that big pharmaceuticals "exploit the monopolies to raise prices.
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We're hurtling toward an increasingly monopolized future, where the only challenges come from other preexisting monopolies.
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Comcast and Time Warner Cable are effectively natural monopolies, with little incentive to improve their service.
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Unlike firms in competitive markets, monopolies limit production in order to keep prices and profits high.
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"If companies become monopolies they can be broken up, in whatever sector," the committee points out.
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But unlike the monopolies of old -- like Standard Oil -- firms like Google are global in scope.
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People in urban areas face other monopolies, but they're driven by the same concentrated financial power.
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"We can crack down on anti-competitive mergers and existing monopolies," Warren assured the approving crowd.
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Successful companies race ahead of their rivals in order to enjoy the advantages of temporary monopolies.
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He says concerns over monopolies and concerns over data security or privacy should not be conflated.
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The idea is to subject moribund state monopolies to the competition and innovation of the market.
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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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Pharmaceutical monopolies reap huge profits from high prices, while medicines are unaffordable for too many people.
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There are alternative means to stimulate innovation that do not rely on monopolies and high prices.
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Both Norway and Sweden have state-run monopolies on alcohol, which helps keep the prices up.
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You referenced antitrust laws earlier, and obviously those are central to any debate about regulating monopolies.
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Scholars have begun to express serious concern about monopolies as the source of numerous economic problems.
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They can then jack up the prices of these drugs thanks to their monopolies on them.
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Water systems are natural monopolies; you have no competition, [people have] no choice at the tap.
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We've known since Standard Oil that advances in technology make it easier for monopolies to emerge.
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She brought up his warning that monopolies can use their wealth and power to strangle democracy.
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So providers tend to be mini monopolies — it's difficult to get low-price care for individuals.
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These provisions would lock in high drug prices for years to come by extending pharma monopolies.
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The American people are very clear: We want to take down pharma monopolies, not strengthen them.
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Imagine what might come from a similar effort by federal regulators to break up hospital monopolies.
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He argues that an ideology of one-click convenience favors national monopolies over the sole proprietor.
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Just remember that's the cost to help American monopolies evade taxes, and it's your patriotic duty.
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Monopolies such as Google, Amazon and Facebook concentrate capital and power and stifle innovation, they say.
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Armenia is a land of monopolies, with the government doling out exclusive control over various businesses.
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But when patent monopolies are extended beyond their rightful term, prices remain high and patients suffer.
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For states that have maintained monopolies however, the respective figures are 52 percent and 53 percent.
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Monopolies and oligopolies continue to dominate large sectors of the economy, like telecommunications and power transmission.
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Startups that once seemed like innovative underdogs now loom over the economy as vast, unaccountable monopolies.
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The US has tried something like local loop unbundling before to break up phone company monopolies.
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Flows of data have created new infrastructure, new businesses, new monopolies, new politics and—crucially—new economics.
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Because the lack of competition in the internet access market let these companies act like predatory monopolies.
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In fact, it reflects utilities' defensiveness, as modular devices located close to consumers are undermining their monopolies.
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And it just opened the door to monopolies charging whatever they want for registering a web address.
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Florida utilities remain old-school, soup-to-nuts monopolies, and they are legendary for defending their prerogatives.
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As monopolies and oligopolies rule most sectors of the economy, they are extracting wealth from everyone else.
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That's dark stuff, though perhaps no darker than anything the NFL or MLB do with their monopolies.
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It's not a coincidence that both those Silicon Valley monopolies came out in support of the bill.
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The order could pursue actions to divulge cost data and tackle regional monopolies of hospital and plans.
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Chile needs better public services and environmental regulation, less abuse by monopolies and a less unequal society.
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Extra support will go to help smaller housebuilders challenge the local monopolies sometimes held by big firms.
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For much of the 20th century, electricity was made and moved by vertically integrated, state-controlled monopolies.
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In the streaming wars, both flywheel and distribution offer the greatest variance, and monopolies dominate those categories.
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Countries that used to be beer monopolies, or at worst comfortable duopolies, are being besieged by outsiders.
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Copyright's restrictions were also misused to curtail competition, block research on cryptography and produce new online monopolies.
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This would, they argue, amount to an acceptance of permanent monopolies in the heart of the economy.
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He joined Breakingviews to explain the inexorable rise of monopolies and what we can do about it.
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With less regulation, it could encourage companies that are practically running monopolies to start price-gouging consumers.
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Weaker countries find it harder to resist the short-term expediency of securing power by protecting monopolies.
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Creative monopolies aren't just good for the rest of society, they're powerful engines for making it better.
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These particular utility companies, now unregulated, have free reign to behave like the corporate monopolies they are.
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Many newspapers, in particular, enjoyed their most lucrative days as local monopolies in the late 20th century.
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Those on the left increasingly consider Amazon, Google, and Facebook to be monopolies that need government intervention.
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It has broken up powerful monopolies and cartels in a way national governments acting alone could not.
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"The whole reason the purchaser-provider split was introduced was because of unaccountable local monopolies," he notes.
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Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin on Monday joined the growing chorus of government officials concerned about tech monopolies.
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And those that do have access are often stuck with pricey monopolies that don't respect consumer privacy.
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Aside from its GDPR initiative, it has a history of taking action on apparent monopolies in tech.
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The mergers create local monopolies that raise prices to counter the decreased revenue from fewer occupied beds.
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There didn't seem to be any evidence of abusive monopolies, built up over the years through mergers.
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Several bills in Congress — many with bipartisan support — address the tactics these companies use to maintain monopolies.
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Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts believes that the government must break up monopolies and promote competitive markets.
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It also doesn't cover local monopolies, such as hospitals that are dominant enough to drive up prices.
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And regulators need to get more aggressive with tech monopolies and stop them from absorbing innovative rivals.
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It also doesn't cover local monopolies, such as hospitals that are dominant enough to drive up prices.
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The bottom line: The world is full of anticompetitive monopolies, many of which operate in plain sight.
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In addition to encouraging secrecy in research, patent monopolies also create the problem of high-priced drugs.
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Intellectual property laws are supposed to encourage innovation by granting temporary monopolies to copyright and patent holders.
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Specifically, price transparency will not restore competition in markets where large health care systems have effective monopolies.
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One proposal takes aim at the games pharmaceutical manufacturers play to protect their monopolies and market share.
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If regulators and lawmakers are serious, they're going to have to rethink a traditional approach to monopolies.
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We can shorten drug corporations' monopolies on lifesaving medications and increase the availability of lower-priced generics.
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These regional monopolies result in high prices, slow speeds, punitive bandwidth caps, and comically terrible customer service.
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We are in a new era of monopolies, with fresh challenges but stakes as high as ever.
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Premium cable services generally operate like monopolies, but there isn't a huge push to break them up.
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Stockmarkets value even consumer-friendly entrants such as Netflix and Amazon as if they too will become monopolies.
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From popular darlings, the Big Tech companies took on a more cracked image as naive and reckless monopolies.
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Don't forget: There's a fundamental difference in how regulators view monopolies (and duopolies) on either side of Atlantic.
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The only business star to resist the orthodoxy was Warren Buffett; he sought out monopolies at home instead.
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They argued that their rivals would build monopolies, create few good jobs and ship the profits to America.
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The consensus has formed early in the primary, and it is firmly against tech monopolies — Facebook in particular.
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It includes the provincial liquor monopolies, the production of dairy, poultry and eggs and the processing of timber.
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So what we have seen is a dramatic expansion in the number of monopolies that have been created.
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We've dealt with world-changing tech monopolies before, and while it's not easy or fast, it's entirely possible.
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Successful, dominant firms, such as Google and AT&T, don't seek absolute monopolies by killing off weaker rivals.
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He quickly gained favor with the oligarchy by helping them structure monopolies and restricting licenses to their competitors.
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It's a winner-takes-all system, it makes for monopolies, but you can have a royalty-based system.
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The Verizon case incorporates big themes in the economy—outsourcing, monopolies, automation, and inequality, to name a few.
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After decades of indifference to the impact of monopolies, the government must begin to act against concentrated power.
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"These cookie-cutter reactions from companies who are raking in profits from repair monopolies are laughable," he said.
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These municipal monopolies are among the chief reasons that many places have little or no competition among ISPs.
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Some lawyers and doctors argue that fewer protections could promote scientific research by eliminating the monopolies patents create.
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"Monopolies are always harmful, and in the information sphere especially so," he told the executives gathered in Sochi.
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They have also pledged to fight for a $15 minimum wage, regulate prescription drug prices, and bust monopolies.
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And often, this involves fighting company lobbyists and lawyers eager to keep things like repair monopolies in place.
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These companies have federally created monopolies just like Mylan, the EpiPen manufacturer and gouger of the public purse.
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In the States, giant monopolies like Comcast want broadband treated as a lightly regulated and exploitable luxury good.
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But I reject the notion that people have no personal experience of how monopolies affect their daily lives.
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These criticisms also come amid worries that Facebook and other big tech companies are monopolies without sufficient competition.
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Competitive merchants have retired the type of expensive plants that monopolies have retained to boost their regulated returns.
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Many of the candidates this fall support busting up monopolies and taking on the power of corporate interests.
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He also called Zuckerberg's influence "unprecedented and un-American" and called on lawmakers to protect citizens from monopolies.
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Newcomers to the marketplace should have a better chance in markets that are now dominated by mega-monopolies.
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Sometimes, competition get stifled and government must step in to break up monopolies and other anti-competitive schemes.
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The government does practically nothing to stop mergers that don't create obvious monopolies or lead to price discrimination.
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"Having become the epicenter of economies, these have in turn become monopolies in their own right," said Sjögren.
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Too much of it and you get stagnation, while monopolies can counter-intuitively offer huge incentives for innovation.
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Questions of monopolies, supply chains, taxation, and revenues will unduly further diminish the voices of medical cannabis patients.
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Ideally, healthy competition and balanced regulatory oversight are supposed to keep giant telecom monopolies on their best behavior.
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It's true that trolly monopolies did pressure city lawmakers to pass regulations damaging to the upstart ride-sharers.
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Some types of gambling, such as the handful of state-run casinos operating in Sweden, would remain monopolies.
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The pick suggests the next Commission is preparing to dial up its scrutiny of big tech's data monopolies.
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And John Thornhill of the FT writes that growing competition among tech giants should ease concerns about monopolies.
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The reality is ... the reason it cost a lot more is that you just have monopolies in aerospace.
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It brought down prices that those monopolies had kept artificially high, and it gave travelers a new option.
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When you look, monopolies and oligopolies (meaning instead of one dominant company, there are a few) are everywhere.
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Corporate consolidation and monopolies aren't the most headline-grabbing issues, but they're really present in our everyday lives.
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Over the subsequent decades, government policies weakened monopolies' hold on business and imposed regulation for consumer well-being.
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Senator Elizabeth Warren argues that Amazon, Facebook, and Google have become monopolies, and need to be broken up.
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Thursday, they announced a new target in that fight: corporate monopolies in tech, healthcare, agriculture, finance, and beyond.
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As The Washington Post explains, the four companies' representatives will demonstrate the real costs of powerful potential monopolies.
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The fastest-growing sectors receive scant funding from investors, who know better than to compete with unregulated monopolies.
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At the core of the corrupt culture are wealthy businessmen, state monopolies, private-property developers and government officials.
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Large ISP monopolies report inaccurate or overstated coverage information, obscure their prices, and often don't deliver promised speeds.
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Consider: There is no ban on travel to Cuba -- only on transactions with Cuba's military-owned tourism monopolies.
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Today brand-name drug makers are exploiting a weakness in the drug-safety laws to prolong their monopolies.
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Because things that have power and influence and, in some cases, monopolies, need regulation, which will come. Right.
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It doesn't help matters that the majority of cable providers have what amount to monopolies in their service areas.
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These questions of monopolies are becoming pretty central to a segment of the left — you see it with Sen.
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Some of these sites seemed perfectly arbitrary a decade ago and turned into monstrous destinations or world-destroying monopolies.
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""The weight of evidence suggests that broad knowledge monopolies even in the hands of universities can hinder scientific progress.
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But he acknowledged that the system "has to adapt," with an aim of making it fairer and preventing monopolies.
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When monopolies and oligopolies thrive, the critics of free markets jump at the chance to blame liberal capitalism itself.
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On October 22nd, some of Silicon Valley's biggest critics introduced a bill that's meant to undercut social media monopolies.
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Vote for Lillian Salerno if you want a woman who's going to fight monopolies to get single- payer healthcare.
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The hedge funders wondered about the big banks; the private equity people complained about monopolies and the bank bailouts.
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Vectoring prolongs the lifetime of copper networks, which were built before former state monopolies like Deutsche Telekom were privatized.
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China, historically lax on local monopolies, isn't likely to break up a local business winner over anti-trust concerns.
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And companies as well as people can be trapped into doing business with monopolies that are inept or shifty.
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Why it matters: Critics say drug companies manipulate the patent system to extend their monopolies and keep prices high.
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The US electricity sector, for instance, is a Rube Goldberg contraption of overlapping jurisdictions, regulated monopolies, and quasi-markets.
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Not only is Thiel a self-described libertarian but he's also on the record as a fan of monopolies.
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Regulatory pressure on the tech community is rising as lawmakers begin to question the power of major tech monopolies.
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But honestly, if we're going to be talking about tech monopolies, I wish that Adobe was on her list.
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Companies have been waiting in the wings for Ethiopia to open its state monopolies and Tuesday's news was welcomed.
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Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich compared them to the monopolies of old in an interview with CNBC on Friday.
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In this case, they believe regulations developed for 1930s monopolies are appropriate to rule the technology of the future.
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They're meant to guard against monopolies and ensure an open-market economy that lets new competitors break into industries.
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Monopolies of mediocrity can survive in the public sector but they don't last in the private sector, especially online.
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To get from the optimism of the '90s to today's surveillance-driven monopolies necessarily involves a bending of ideals.
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Instead, occupational licenses too often are an unnecessary government regulation imposed by legislators to collect fees and create monopolies.
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And Sanders last month unveiled a bill to strip monopolies from drug companies if their prices are deemed excessive.
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This low turnout is echoed in city after city, around the nation, where governments have become self-serving monopolies.
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For example, public companies maintain monopolies over several areas of the economy, while citizens cannot privately own any land.
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China, Russia or other geopolitical foes and unstable third-world nations have monopolies on producing many of these minerals.
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Tech monopolies, which both accelerate and exploit conditions of extreme economic concentration and wealth inequality, are bleeding media dry.
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Instead, companies that balk at selling their drugs for fair prices would face losing their monopolies on those drugs.
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Corporations involved in the food business are indeed engendering poverty, especially in rural communities, and evolving into near monopolies.
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They were pushing the point that there is no monopoly, and even if [monopolies] exist they're good for everybody.
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Castro specifically called out Amazon and sees big tech's issues as part of a larger tendency toward monopolies nationally.
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"The fact is nobody, for some reason, is looking at these monopolies that are Google and Facebook," Zucker noted.
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There's nothing new about companies establishing monopolies, cooperative oligopolies and dominant market positions in order to earn high profits.
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The effort will require working with state governments to end monopolies of regional state-owned gas distributors, he said.
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The bills are squarely aimed at the "authorized repair" model that creates aftermarket monopolies dominated by the manufacturers themselves.
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In short, we must end our reliance on big telecom monopolies and build decentralized, affordable, locally owned internet infrastructure.
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While government mandates are generally not a good thing, they serve an important purpose for taming government-created monopolies.
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This decrease in competition has increased prices and increased hospital market monopolies resulting in few choices for healthcare consumers.
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Soon, they argue, we'll look back at tech monopolies as a quirk in the broader history of social media.
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Once the country emerges from the Trump presidency, I hope we will have a government that takes monopolies seriously.
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It seemed obvious that the internet's great promise was that it operated outside the purview of existing communications monopolies.
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The monopolies soon got control of Germany, brought Hitler to power and forced virtually the whole world into war.
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These monopolies are the result of a really challenging regulatory environment where it's very difficult to build new planes.
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Her efforts to weaken technology monopolies have led to multibillion dollar fines against the likes of Alphabet-owned Google.
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These price hikes are particularly problematic because cable operators so often have monopolies over the regions they operate in.
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Her eco-activism stems, in part, from her wish to destroy "state-created monopolies" in the electric utility sector.
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The movie is at its most engaging when examining the near-monopolies controlling chicken farmers in the United States.
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As the editorial writer for the Cleveland Recorder , Post crusaded against industrial monopolies and in favor of workers' rights.
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It's never a good thing to have such intellectual monopolies, especially as an answer to poorly understood scientific questions.
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As the kerfuffle over AIM some 17 years ago demonstrates, predictions of imminent tech monopolies rarely come to pass.
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Democrats' proposals include workers on boards, beating up health-care firms and tackling monopolies, most obviously in big tech.
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They are given patents that create 20-year artificial monopolies on technologies that should be in the public domain.
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Instead, several responded that as president, they would install strong antitrust enforcers to go after monopolies in multiple industries.
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With monopolies growing ever larger, small businesses are being squeezed by both anticompetitive practices and an increasingly unequal economy.
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Liberals who question the value of promoting monopolies and the superrich might also question their fondness for easy money.
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Such exports benefit American allies that have been dependent on imports from hostile state-owned monopolies like Russia's Gazprom.
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For branded drugs, the short answer is that patents give drug companies monopolies, which they exploit to the fullest.
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"The biggest threats to journalism right now are tech monopolies and concentration of ownership," Ocasio-Cortez said Saturday on Twitter.
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Free markets really don't police themselves, as the telecoms clearly demonstrate with their practice of tolerating each others mini-monopolies.
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This includes extensions of drug patent monopolies beyond 20 years, guaranteed additional exclusive marketing rights for biologic drugs, and more.
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Friedrich Hayek had an entire chapter on the danger of monopolies in his classic political tome The Road to Serfdom.
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And it means your personal data can and will be sold by the big telecom monopolies that you already hate.
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Excluding four firms that have lucrative state-mandated monopolies, their return on capital employed is a meagre 22016% and falling.
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But for anyone who worries about internet monopolies and walled gardens, it could be a canary in a coal mine.
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The first bill will allow more companies to compete in the local distribution market - at present controlled by regional monopolies.
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But Getachew Teklemariam, a consultant and former government adviser, argues that simply selling minority stakes in public monopolies is insufficient.
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If you find the rainbow's end, Mexican consumers will buy mobile despite payment systems, monopolies and of course, the government.
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We used to have antitrust laws in the United States that had teeth to try to stop monopolies from happening.
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And the monopolies that support those high prices could undermine both liberal and conservative dreams of a more efficient system.
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They will be uniquely qualified to dominate that business and since they essentially run monopolies, their core business remains safe.
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Even among so-called unicorns — private start-ups worth $1 billion or more — de facto monopolies are already the norm.
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"The reality is that these monopolies have a lot of power and often will regulate their own regulators," Bozuwa said.
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The "A Better Deal" plan released Monday is aimed at eliminating corporate monopolies, whether created organically or via large mergers.
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Free markets really don't police themselves, as the telecoms clearly demonstrate with their practice of tolerating each other's mini-monopolies.
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Today, we have near-monopolies, walled garden services; the mobile internet is metered and expensive; and copyright is vigorously enforced.
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We are confronting attacks from utility monopolies that are opposed to the freedom and savings rooftop solar panels provide homeowners.
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When Putin wants to reward his friends, he allocates them contracts and monopolies they can milk for all their worth.
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But if growth is to continue, telecoms firms will either have to open up voluntarily or have their monopolies broken.
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That federal overreach placed the Internet into a vast and archaic regulatory regime designed in the 1930s for telephone monopolies.
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But the government has also allowed lots of big mergers and quasi-monopolies in various sectors of the internet already.
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He also introduced a bill in November to strip drug companies of their monopolies if their prices are deemed excessive.
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To start, he wants the federal government to treat companies like Google and Facebook as monopolies and regulate them accordingly.
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We would not be at the mercy of Facebook and Google's shifting moral standards if they were not virtual monopolies.
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But that framework is collapsing as more Democrats awaken to the threat monopolies pose to American workers and consumers alike.
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Before, power utilities were "vertically integrated monopolies," which meant they owned the entire electricity supply chain, from generator to customer.
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But the scalability, network effects and aggregation of supply by distributors has led to near monopolies in these core utilities.
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After all, monopolies in agriculture and healthcare have led to higher pricing, artificial demand, and antitrust strategies like price-fixing.
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Regulations are lax, tailored to the companies' interests, and allow for the firms to set up monopolies in the market.
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It's a great story — but also one that highlights why the government must break up monopolies and promote competitive markets.
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It's one of three investigations launched by the EU into the U.S. tech giant, amid growing concerns around tech monopolies.
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Should composers and songwriters like John be treated as monopolies and regulated by antitrust enforcers to protect companies like Google?
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First, the mania to curb destructive competition through consolidation, both in corporate America through trusts and monopolies and in government.
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Turn after turn, time after time, public welfare has taken a back seat to the quarterly earnings of telecom monopolies.
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Many big tech companies are born wanting to become monopolies — indeed, Facebook board member Peter Thiel suggests that they do.
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Many big tech companies are born wanting to become monopolies — indeed, Facebook board member Peter Thiel suggests that they do.
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Antitrust is especially salient today because we witness the tremendous power of the tech monopolies firsthand, in our daily lives.
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Patent monopolies also encourage drug companies to mislead doctors and the public about the safety and effectiveness of their drugs.
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America is slowly waking up both culturally and politically to the takeover of our economy by a few tech monopolies.
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Private monopolies run by special interests should not get to raise taxes and set regulatory policy for the United States.
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As he amps up his war on monopolies, a natural question arises: Will Chris Hughes make a difference this time?
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Monopolies not only prematurely euthanize big firms that are good tax payers and employers, but perform infanticide on emerging retailers.
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It has announced various campaigns in a bid to stimulate private participation, including in sectors that have monopolies in industries.
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Natural monopolies require either public provision or at least public oversight to provide services efficiently, hence the large public role.
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It is time to create new approaches to delivering care that break the near-monopolies found in many urban areas.
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Congress and federal agencies need to take a fresh look at what can be done to curb these data monopolies.
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Most importantly, the new authority would have the power to realign market forces that incentivize monopolies in the first place.
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Each of these companies represent virtual monopolies in the digital space, and they all utilize some form of paid prioritization.
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The businessmen enjoying government favors and monopolies and the political contractors who serve whoever is in power will be around.
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And that is precisely what patents for drugs do: They give drug companies monopolies on the sales of new medications.
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Younger monopolies such as Alphabet and Facebook have net cash positions, largely because the money has only just started pouring in.
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In poorer and more isolated villages, though, stores can effectively function like monopolies and charge a higher markup on their products.
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The coalition included both environmental and conservative "green tea" groups, which sensibly objected to state-sponsored monopolies preventing private market competition.
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"Big tech companies like Google, Facebook and Twitter have become media monopolies and they are censoring people," said O'Keefe by phone.
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The authors' estimate that moving from "consolidated markets" -- monopolies -- to multi-operator markets could drastically reduce costs of mobile broadband data.
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Offering personalization in exchange for data is a neat proposition, but it's not a silver bullet for those fighting data monopolies.
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Thiel told Tyler Cowen that the really good ideas were "way more dangerous" than his belief in the power of monopolies.
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Last year when I stood before you I spent most of my time analyzing the nefarious role of the IT monopolies.
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Her fellow Democratic candidate Pete Buttigieg has publicly said he wants the FTC to be more aggressive in combating tech monopolies.
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Candidate Trump grumbled about monopolies such as AT&T and Amazon, but now he is in office he has lost interest.
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Europe is edging towards cracking the big-tech puzzle in a way that empowers consumers, not the state or secretive monopolies.
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"In my opinion, there would have to be a European Monopolies Commission which would work with the European Commission," Wambach said.
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"This is different from the old monopolies of the industrial age," Robert Reich, the former labor secretary, said of technology companies.
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It's not cool when a giant corporation uses unfair business practices to dominate a market, but other monopolies aren't so bad.
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"Just over a century ago, it was both Republicans and Democrats who fought back and broke up big monopolies," said Sen.
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This has led to a great migration away from mainstream monopolies to smaller outlets that are benefitting from the new administration.
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"Using finance to take value away from the big incumbents that have massive cost structures ... and are quasi-monopolies," he said.
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In telecom and other utilities, the cost of building the last mile is what results in natural monopolies, thereby requiring regulation.
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Amazon and other tech quasi-monopolies have benefitted greatly from the relaxing of antitrust laws that began in earnest in 1982.
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The Telecom Act transformed the communications industry from a group of isolated monopolies to a highly competitive, diverse, and innovative marketplace.
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Next, says Bagehot, Thatcher "poisoned the well of privatisation by selling off nationalised monopolies in ways that favour investors over customers".
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As is so often the case with government-created and government-run monopolies, Pemex had been plagued by corruption and inefficiency.
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Newspapers were printing presses of gold, in no small part because most operated as near monopolies in most cities and towns.
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Although there may be more calls to break up tech monopolies, there is not any real political appetite to do so.
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Now, a group led by casino owners and data centers, which use tremendous amounts of energy, wants to prohibit energy monopolies.
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TV on Monday that Democrats throughout the 2628 primary field are taking aim at corporate monopolies in their own economic proposals.
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Congress needs to legislate rules for the social networks before these monsters lose themselves in the unwieldy monopolies they have created.
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Unfortunately, U.S. patent law has few built-in protections to ensure that patent monopolies do not overreach and restrict free expression.
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"Trusts" were something Teddy Roosevelt heroically Trust-Busted, from that time before the need for regulation of monopolies had been recognized.
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Silicon Valley has enough issues already: Tech companies are compromising our elections, upholding monopolies, and profiteering from the abuse of privacy.
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In the process shaking off monopolies that have stalled progress, gutted consumer protections, and left far too many disconnected and vulnerable.
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You've got monopolies, oligopolies, cartels, government-run markets, price-fixing — all the dysfunctional behaviors that lead to rapid increase in prices.
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Justice said both mergers would create near monopolies for the super-sized companies and set them free to jack up prices.
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As print advertising has plummeted across the industry, newspaper businesses that once enjoyed profitable local monopolies have struggled to stay afloat.
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Conservatives, after all, are supposed to care about the ideals that monopolies undermine — like market competition, economic dynamism and individual freedom.
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To Mr. Wu, the broadband monopolies looked like a threat to the end-to-end idea that had powered the internet.
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The steel magnate and other robber barons warded off political challenges to their monopolies for decades before Woodrow Wilson ended them.
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Some of Beijing's local allies are populists who want to break up local monopolies, seize private land and build public housing.
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If Europe and America become domestic monopolies, their main battleground may switch to Asia, where demand for air travel is soaring.
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But if Silicon Valley has become a hotspot for monopolies, it's not simply due to the fast pace of technological change.
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He and his allies also vowed to break up the political and economic monopolies that have controlled the country for years.
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Qatar started the Al-Jazeera news network that, while imperfect, has broken state propaganda ministries' monopolies on information throughout the region.
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We should go after monopolies so that companies have to compete for a patient's business instead of charging whatever they want.
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But if we are going to examine media monopolies, we should look first at Silicon Valley, not the fading phone business.
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But in a world increasingly powered by software, the fear of monopolies is anachronistic, and monopoly is just a board game.
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"In economic terms these (companies) would appear to fall into a classic definition of monopolies," Cosgrave told Reuters in an interview.
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Ooredoo was credited with being the savviest of the Gulf's former monopolies that pursued rapid expansion abroad over the past decade.
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Giving monopolies more power will make it harder for new companies to enter the marketplace and limit the pace of innovation.
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For the Communist Party and its commercial allies, this is win-win, cementing respective monopolies on political markets and consumer power.
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The blockchain worldview can also sound libertarian in the sense that it proposes nonstate solutions to capitalist excesses like information monopolies.
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From the period of chartered monopolies in the 1300s until very recently, the power of a monopoly was maintained by law.
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It was Adam Smith that said, as much as he loved capitalism, he said that he fears that power of monopolies.
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"It is always difficult to create a channel or a publication from the ground up and against seemingly entrenched monopolies," Murdoch said.
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Some economists thought inflation was rooted in cost pressures that required structural remedies, such as reforms to weaken monopolies and labour unions.
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" The letter insists further that net neutrality is the brainchild of "Silicon Valley monopolies like Google and leftist globalists like George Soros.
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A final question raised monopolies and how dominant elements in markets might be blocking entrepreneurs — and what could be done to help?
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Ethio Telecom is one of Africa's few remaining telecoms monopolies and the state-owned Commercial Bank of Ethiopia the largest financial institution.
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One is, we have to be clear-eyed that these are the most powerful information monopolies in the history of the world.
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"The weight of evidence suggests that broad knowledge monopolies even in the hands of universities can hinder scientific progress," the paper argues.
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And increased trends toward Republicans in white, rural America may stem in part from rage over powerful monopolies shaping the modern economy.
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Denny Lanfear, boss of Coherus, bemoans the fact that firms typically file dozens of patents on old drugs to extend their monopolies.
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They can signal the existence of firms more adept at siphoning wealth off than creating it, such as those that exploit monopolies.
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The game was designed to show how property markets naturally tend towards monopolies in which one player can extract all the rent.
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The pharmaceutical monopolies at the heart of the opioid crisis have quite literally gotten away with mass murder in pursuit of profits.
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Many of the reforms described in "The Great Democracy" have been features of Ms. Warren's campaign — ending the filibuster, breaking up monopolies.
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It has argued that stockmarkets are natural monopolies that should in effect be compelled to sell their prices to whoever wants them.
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Such markets fall short of the ideal of perfect competition, but nor are they examples of lazy monopolies ripping off hapless consumers.
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Unlike traditional monopolies, which often wallowed in inefficiency, today's profit leaders – think Google or Apple – are mostly dedicated to innovation and efficiency.
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Some worry, however, that ICSs may turn into local monopolies, responding to the central diktats rather than the needs of local populations.
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They are expected to keep near-monopolies for decades in products that attract huge public interest, such as search and social media.
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I actually think there's a lot of regulations that aren't written very well that are benefiting monopolies rather than the full economy.
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Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson called Amazon's business practices an "indefensible scam" last week, accusing Amazon and Walmart of operating as monopolies.
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He is also trying to break up state monopolies, which exist mostly to waste petrodollars, and has asked the IMF for advice.
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But his administration has bounced between combating monopolies and embracing statist economics — reforms investors desperately seek — and coddling Indonesia's entrenched business interests.
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"Monopolies drive progress because the promise of years or even decades of monopoly profits provides a powerful incentive to innovate," he writes.
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Future Forward, a new party which appeals to younger Thais, wants to end business monopolies, decentralise government and extend the welfare state.
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"Officials in the US & EU continue to be concerned about Alphabets market power in view of restrictions on monopolies," the proposal reads.
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"Officials in the U.S. & E.U. continue to be concerned about Alphabets market power in view of restrictions on monopolies," the proposal reads.
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Actually, yes: Profits come out of customers' wallets, and monopolies deserve their bad reputation, but only in a world where nothing changes.
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On antitrust, Khanna says he does not think any of the tech giants are monopolies, in the legal sense of the term.
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Our anti-monopoly policies have fallen into disuse and today's big tech monopolies have used that opening to seize too much power.
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Montezemolo said Spain, France and Germany were possible targets, despite the monopolies Renfe, SNCF and Deutsche Bahn hold in their respective markets.
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The oil, steel and rail monopolies of the late 19th century have been replaced by technology giants like Amazon, Apple and Alphabet.
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The government is threatening action against some of its biggest tech monopolies, like Tencent and Baidu, arguing they pose national security threats.
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Last month, House and Senate Democrats singled out corporate monopolies as a key target of the party's new "better deal" economic platform.
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"The 'FAAAM' index — Facebook, Amazon, Alphabet, Apple and Microsoft — these companies now have virtual monopolies, " Calacanis told CNBC's "Squawk Alley " on Wednesday.
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Like most states, giants like AT&T and Comcast enjoy regional geographic monopolies, resulting in limited competition, high prices, and slow speeds.
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It is a vivid reminder of the dangers of monopolies, and of the merits of no-holds barred competition and technological upheaval.
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But the government has also been more aggressive in putting a stop to deals that eschew local taxes or represent potential monopolies.
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The American corporate monopolies of the day were more than willing to manipulate markets in order to put rivals out of business.
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In other words, Trump isn't an ally in the antitrust fight, but a convincing reason to fear a country ruled by monopolies.
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The unions of tomorrow should look less like monopolies and more like professional associations that offer services the members can voluntarily select.
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The candidate has argued that tech giants including Facebook, Google, and Amazon are monopolies that the federal government should regulate more heavily.
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As The Wirecutter and Slate explain, it's all about marketing costs, brand recognition, crazy profit margins, and monopolies in the mattress market.
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This eliminated one of the primary threats to existing hospital monopolies: the possibility of fed-up physicians opening their own medical facilities.
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Nevada law gives utility companies the right to establish and control monopolies in the state, regulated by the Nevada Public Utilities Commission.
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Progressive Caucus leaders said a bill using arbitration — instead of the stronger mechanism of stripping monopolies — could lose many of their votes.
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Like many other candidates, Buttigieg said he's worried about monopolies, but did not say that he would break up any companies specifically.
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For Silicon Valley's new media monopolies, the meeting is an opportunity to learn that tech doesn't have a monopoly on good ideas.
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Meanwhile, anyone who believes that monopolies are bad for consumers in the marketplace should take the same stance regarding our education system.
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If you're just going to assume they're monopolies, you're going to end up with a nondiscrimination standard, which is like utility regulations.
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He also served as a line editor on George Soros's speech in Davos last year about the dangers of internet platform monopolies.
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We're going to take the actions necessary to secure our family's privacy against the acts of reckless monopolies and their political puppets.
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"Officials in the US & EU continue to be concerned about Alphabet's market power in view of restrictions on monopolies," the proposal reads.
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When World War I disrupted Europe's monopolies in its Asian colonies, Japanese companies moved in with their textiles, bicycles and canned foods.
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If Schultz were serious about challenging party monopolies he might invest some of his fortune in efforts to pass similar reforms elsewhere.
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The problem stems from a lack of investment in telecommunications infrastructure locally since the Arab Spring in 2011 and stifling state monopolies.
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It's a problem that is notably worse in many low-income and minority communities, long-neglected by the nation's incumbent broadband monopolies.
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We used to worry 100 years ago about the kind of monopolies you had in steel and railroads and things like that.
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First, governments need to ensure that central banks' monopoly over coins and notes is not replaced by private monopolies over digital money.
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Standard Oil and banks formed monopolies long before Silicon Valley — and the federal government ultimately broke them up or restrained their power.
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Functions like the Bloomberg forum offer a break from burdens like public scrutiny of their taxes and their defense of alleged monopolies.
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You don't have to go as far back as telephone monopolies to understand where the set-top innovation issue lies in context.
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"Zero to One" starts from the controversial premise that "competition is for losers" and that entrepreneurs should instead aim to create monopolies.
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It will protect consumers by regulating the remaining monopolies for a time and by providing a roadmap for deregulation in the future.
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"We need a president who has the guts to appoint an attorney general who will take on these huge monopolies," Vermont Sen.
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For decades, the largest aggregators of consumer time were newspapers (local monopolies on information) and television (uniquely combining sight, sound and motion).
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Public sentiment appears to be turning against big tech and breaking up tech monopolies is a key facet of the new Democratic platform.
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Its biggest challenge is probably disruption: drug companies have made investments on the assumption that they would enjoy long monopolies on new drugs.
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Sanders told the Iowa crowd that he would strengthen anti-trust laws to block new corporate agriculture mergers and break up existing monopolies.
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It includes protection for dairy and poultry farmers, limits on foreign ownership of telecoms firms and provincial monopolies on the sale of alcohol.
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It was referring to the state monopolies in the electricity, telecoms and logistics sectors, as well as the highly profitable national flag carrier.
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According to CNBC's Jim Cramer, that's not a move that even the president best known for smashing monopolies like Standard Oil would make.
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All this can be hard to arrange, because state-controlled utilities often see mini-grids as a threat to their monopolies and subsidies.
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He has also vowed to increase competition in markets dominated by monopolies and duopolies, signaling a willingness to take on the business elite.
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" The pattern is clear: "It's reasonable to worry about monopolies when they happen, because they're an impediment to innovation and fun and creativity.
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America faces challenges ranging from monopolies to inequality to climate change to robots taking jobs to failing infrastructure to an outdated immigration system.
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And you&aposre going to have politicians who are going to want to do the union bidding them and protect their cab monopolies.
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In Clinton's vision, prices are not the only lens through which we can view monopolies—they can hurt workers, suppliers, and small businesses.
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The companies that it may look to invest in include Ethiopian Electric Power and Ethio Telecom – one of Africa's last remaining telecoms monopolies.
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This disposable economy has spurred a growing movement of activists fighting against repair monopolies and for their own rights to repair broken technology.
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"(The firms) created monopolies by agreeing to raise sales prices and to artificially carve up the market," the NDRC said in the statements.
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They can signal the existence of firms more adept at siphoning wealth off than creating it afresh, such as those that exploit monopolies.
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Writing for the dissent, Justice Neil Gorsuch said that allowing overseas damages extends U.S. patent owners' monopolies over an invention to foreign markets.
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The Democratic Party's about-face on monopolies wasn't just bad for citizens and communities—it led to the disintegration of the party itself.
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Yet switching costs and network effects—the benefit customers and drivers get from using the same app—could make these platforms natural monopolies.
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Monopolies and a government that can't negotiate, scientists said in a paper that may provide ammunition for lawmakers aiming to lower drug costs.
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Opponents of net neutrality like to refer to Title II as a set of Depression-era rules designed for railroads and telephone monopolies.
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That's a problem in a wireless sector where just a few companies enjoy regional monopolies over the fiber lines that power cellular towers.
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With repeal of ObamaCare, carriers can re-enter the market to sell insurance, compete with each other (no monopolies), and drive down prices.
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We've witnessed similar government-launched corporate monopolies like AMTRAK require repeated taxpayer bailouts while also struggling to install critical safety and technological upgrades.
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Ziyavudin Magomedov, owner of Summa group, with interests in transportation, construction and agriculture, said Russia should privatize everything but the most essential monopolies.
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The commission was established in 1914 to break up abusive monopolies — in oil, steel, sugar and other industries — and ensure fair market competition.
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The signs showed Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg as two heads of an octopus, a symbol that's been used to denote monopolies.
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It's been on maps -- to depict Russia, Japan and the United States -- and it's been used, along with a snake, to depict monopolies.
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Joshua Gans and Andrew Leigh: Our concern is the prevalence of monopolies and particularly situations that make it hard for innovators to compete.
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They protect your privacy and freedom of speech, freedom of worship from the tech monopolies that seem to crush all of those things.
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Mexico's 2013 energy reform ended decades-long oil and electricity monopolies enjoyed by the country's two state-owned energy companies Pemex and CFE.
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These monopolies on life-essential medicines enable the take-it-or-leave-it price-gouging that causes so much suffering and even death.
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Can you make the case to me for why big tech companies like Facebook or Amazon or Google should be treated like monopolies?
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Now that more major players such as Aetna, United, and Humana have dropped out of the ACA, we have, in effect created monopolies.
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"I think a Hillary Clinton administration will not rush out on its own volition and take on Silicon Valley platform monopolies," said Lynn.
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Data released by the FCC during its ongoing proceeding demonstrates that 97% of BDS lines are controlled and operated by monopolies or duopolies.
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The world's biggest public companies — like Apple, Alphabet and Amazon — have become so dominant that some critics have said they border on monopolies.
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Her campaign is focused on fighting corporate monopolies and dirty money, protecting the environment and cutting red tape for small businesses and farms.
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Uber is aspiring to be like the other great monopolies of our time from Silicon Valley, many of which have been blatantly exploitative.
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We are a nation with a tradition of reining in monopolies, no matter how well intentioned the leaders of these companies may be.
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The Department of Justice blocked the sale coming from a perspective of creating competition, preventing Tribune Publishing from the effects of media monopolies.
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"Ride sharing is starting to look more like a business that will be regionally dominated by local duopolies and monopolies," Mr. Garcia said.
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Whether involving airlines, hospitals, the pharmaceutical industry, cable television or the major tech platforms, mergers leading to oligopolies or monopolies have become commonplace.
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In essence, China has created domestic internet monopolies that are generating enough cash in their vast local market to finance aggressive expansion abroad.
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Greenback Labor and the People's Party put the whole money question, during the post-Civil War Gilded Age, and the issue of monopolies.
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It could be that the notion of net neutrality that the F.C.C. seems determined to jettison should also be applied to media monopolies.
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I mean, you have quasi-monopolies in these tech fields where you feel like what are you going to do, not use Facebook?
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Oxfam argues that the capitalist system is broken because it allows monopolies to flourish and concentrates wealth in the hands of the few.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's State Council on Friday issued guidelines aimed at boosting private investment in sectors including ones that have monopolies in industries.
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Since April, Abiy's government has announced shake-ups across industries, including plans to open up the once closely guarded telecommunications and power monopolies.
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Breaking up those telecom monopolies is also a major point of Sanders' agenda (echoing Warren's long-standing call to break up Big Tech).
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They said Bannon believes that Facebook and Google have become so essential to internet users that they should be regulated like natural monopolies.
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The law gave OPOs monopolies over their designated service areas and made their expenses 100 percent financial pass through – largely to the taxpayer.
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Unregulated monopolies and firms subsidized by the deepest pocket in history — the US government — are the only companies young people should invest in.
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If we accept the dominant nature of such monopolies, we might regulate them accordingly, in the same way we regulate water and electricity.
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In a highly concentrated industry, individual companies may have monopolies over a particular product in that industry, like online advertising for Big Tech.
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Tim Wu's 2010 book "The Master Switch" proposes a "Separations Principle" that would include forced breakups of monopolies, but only in information industries.
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Warren is right that the business monopolies these companies enjoy are bad for other American businesses and ultimately reduce the choices of consumers.
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Over a 27-year legislative career, Bolsonaro has voted repeatedly to preserve state-owned monopolies and against reforming Brazil's bloated public pension system.
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In the last year there has been an increased call for investigation of the tech monopolies, though there has been no action yet.
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If the government were able to break those monopolies and grant patents to other competing companies, that would help to bring prices down.
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Free market theory holds that new upstarts providing better products or services at a better price will sooner or later challenge old monopolies.
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The Sanders plan promises to reverse that trend by undoing past megadeals, and blocking "vertically integrated" mergers between telecom monopolies and media giants.
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The cause of liberty can be advanced through social reform, through a more robust welfare state, through attacks on monopolies and unearned property.
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His administration has taken important steps to reduce poverty and improve growth, although Indonesia's economy still struggles with monopolies, graft and red tape.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook has defended the existence of monopolies in business while also denying that Apple has a monopoly in any sector.
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Critics of the industry have long contended that the companies, which operate as monopolies within jails and prisons, price-gouge their captive customers.
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The battle between Americans eager for better broadband and monopolies like Comcast focused on defending the broken status quo has raged for decades.
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In the US, there are 58 agencies with local monopolies over the provision of dead people's organs, known as organ procurement organizations (OPOs).
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Their products are needed to save lives, and they obtain monopolies on their drugs through patent systems granted by governments and, by extension, society.
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Dana Rohrabacher of California fumed at "tech monopolies" violating conservatives' civil rights, after Google fired the author of a memo criticizing its diversity programs.
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From April 20173, the government ended regional monopolies that were formed after World War Two, opening up retail gas and electricity markets to competition.
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Although weakening monopolies' grip on America will not solve all our problems, we will not be able to solve our problems without doing so.
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Nicholas L. Johnson is head of platform at Applico and co-author of Modern Monopolies: What It Takes to Dominate the 21st-Century Economy.
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U.S. antitrust law evaluates monopolies in terms of potential direct harm to consumers, such as rising prices as a result of a firm's dominance.
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But we've all been on that journey of seeing the downsides of this kind of technology and getting concerned about the monopolies of it.
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The reason American governance is dysfunctional is simple: We have turned much of our sovereignty over to private interests in the form of monopolies.
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Some cities in the Golden State have tried to break up monopolies by taking over power distribution themselves, says Charles Kolstad of Stanford University.
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The House could start by investigating America's chicken industry, which has turned family farmers into something akin to impoverished sharecroppers through powerful, exploitative monopolies.
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My key point is that the combination of repressive regimes with IT monopolies endows those regimes with a built-in advantage over open societies.
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Finally, the American system often gives drugmakers either genuine or effective monopolies for their treatments, and therefore grants them incredible power over the cost.
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For now it has dismissed the option of capping tech firms' profits and regulating them like utilities, which would make them stodgy, permanent monopolies.
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As just a handful of largely American companies have become global tech monopolies, regulators in the US have done little to deter anticompetitive practices.
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NURV's investments parallel Microsoft's deals with Comcast, WebTV, and other companies in the '90s, but they also echo the structure of modern vertical monopolies.
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That's not possible today, given the dependency on electric grids, regional utility monopolies, and energy hurdles in manufacturing hubs like China, among other factors.
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Four of the biggest companies in tech defended themselves Tuesday from charges they've become monopolies, choking small business and hurting consumers in the process.
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When the monopolies that control the last mile of infrastructure refuse to upgrade their technology, though, consumers suffer from spotty service and slow speeds.
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In the US, there are 58 agencies with local monopolies over the provision of dead people's organs, known as organ procurement organizations or OPOs.
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Egypt replaced public monopolies with private ones, and the story is better understood as an indictment of abusive rent-seeking than of free markets.
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And so the multinationals, utilities, and almost-monopolies are implementing systems that most of us despise or, at best, tolerate, at an accelerating rate.
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The industry is riddled with special interests and is governed by patent rules that allow firms temporary monopolies on innovative new drugs and inventions.
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They invest the super-profits that they gain from those temporary monopolies in more R&D in order to stay ahead in the race.
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Ms. Teachout could focus attention on the ways big business, big agriculture and big monopolies distort the economy and hobble those trying to survive.
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Canada lacks a single securities regulator; production of milk must be matched to local consumption; the sale of alcohol is reserved for provincial monopolies.
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Indeed, market principles often assumed to be unique to humans—competitive pricing, monopolies, or home rental agreements—are observable in the natural world too.
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This ensures that the brand name companies are deservedly compensated for their innovative medical advancements and that permanent monopolies over treatments do not arise.
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These monopolies subvert the strategy underlying the ACA: combining free-market competition with government's capacity to serve those whom the private-sector has neglected.
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From April 29501, the government ended regional monopolies that were formed after World War Two, opening up retail gas and electricity markets to competition.
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The merger of T-Mobile and Sprint might help improve 5G coverage, but as for prices ... well, monopolies are frowned on for a reason.
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Put simply, tokenized and open data can limit the control data monopolies have on future innovation while ushering in a new era of computing.
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Alex Moazed is the founder and CEO of Applico and co-author of Modern Monopolies: What It Takes to Dominate the 21st Century Economy.
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Elizabeth Warren, who has made regulating tech giants a central platform of her presidential campaign, Gelernter has a more libertarian outlook on combating monopolies.
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It treated competitive companies as if they were monopolies with no competitive pressures of losing customers if their services did not best satisfy them.
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Several insurers have decided to pull out of these markets, leaving many places with what appear to be health insurance monopolies for next year.
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Weak pricing, tight credit and corporate monopolies have put pressure on farms in recent years, and new trade barriers have exacerbated their economic problems.
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He has suggested that U.S. regulators should follow Europe's lead and look closely at tech companies' monopolies, but has not suggested any specific remedy.
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That means monopolies like Duke Energy are about to get stuck with a bunch of dirty, coal-burning power plants that are becoming uneconomical.
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In the meantime, Google is under fire, along with other tech giants, as legislators seek to deal with the perceived monopolies these companies have.
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Jefferson and Madison were voracious readers of Adam Smith, who believed that monopolies prevent the competition that spurs innovation and leads to economic growth.
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He ticks off a number of things he would try to do, including using antitrust laws to break up monopolies and jailing pharmaceutical executives.
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"Sarah Miller, Co-Chair of Freedom From Facebook, via an e-mailed statement: "Facebook is one of the world's most dangerous and irresponsible monopolies.
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Roberto Castello Branco, the chief executive of Petrobras, has said it is important that no regional refining monopolies are created via the divestment process.
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Another difference: There are large firms in the heavily-regulated financial sector, but no monopolies anywhere close to the scale of the tech giants.
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Another View There is a growing drumbeat that the five leading tech behemoths have turned into dangerous monopolies that stifle innovation and harm consumers.
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Tilting economic policy towards smaller companies, by reining in or breaking up entrenched monopolies, would increase the range of opportunities available to ordinary people.
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Google Fiber, the broadband service that Google started years ago to challenge the cable company monopolies, has run into yet another set of snags.
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This is kind of a goofy question, but moving away from the big three, what are five other monopolies that should be broken up?
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Consumer groups like Fight For the Future were quick to criticize Kennedy's solution as a trojan horse proposal ghost-written by incumbent telecom monopolies.
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This is how SESTA could stifle innovation: The pseudo-monopolies will survive, but new competitors could be priced out or discouraged from entering the arena.
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The firebrand former prosecutor has said he will crack down on drug dealers, crime bosses, corrupt generals, business monopolies, online gambling and even Catholic priests.
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Thiel -- who is a board member and early investor in Facebook, one of Alphabet's fiercest competitors -- noted that he only wants to invest in monopolies.
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Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, who's established herself as Democrats' big ideas leader in 2020, already has a plan to break up the largest tech monopolies.
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Questioning whether cable systems were still monopolies, he insisted limits on that control had to clear an almost impossibly lofty bar under the First Amendment.
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The report authors argue that sluggish markets and monopolies are a primary cause of high prices and offer several policy prescriptions to address the issue.
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Unfortunately, Klobuchar got caught in an awkward nonverbal moment when Castro was speaking on the topic of monopolies and the camera panned over to her.
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He supports the most Woodstock-like initiative to appear at the conference: the Free My Booze campaign to end provincial monopolies over sales of alcohol.
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That has allowed it to cut its electricity prices by 5.4 percent in July, making them the fourth-lowest among the former 10 power monopolies.
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"Everyone was laser-focused on the AT&T decision, and that decision's impact on future M&A and concern about monopolies," said a senior banker.
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They saw outside pressure as the best way to force through needed changes, from the dismantling of state-run monopolies to the opening of markets.
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Breaking up such monopolies—as America's regulators once carved up Standard Oil and AT&T—is good for consumers and the economy as a whole.
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The only surprise is that it has taken so much cajoling to get insurers to run monopolies in markets buttressed by such generous government support.
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The fight against Amazon laid bare their union-busting, corporate welfare, ICE-abetting practices and shows why we need to break up monopolies like Amazon.
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The Continental Congress refused a term sheet and Fitch instead decided to increase the value of his company with monopolies to operate in individual states.
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We also don't use the power of government to break up monopolies or ensure that the market for things like hospital care are actually competitive.
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And in case you don't know how dangerous monopolies can be in health care, Google the words "Mylan" and "EpiPen" when you get a chance.
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" Tennison told the Financial Times: "The large companies are becoming more like data monopolies and that doesn't give us the best value from our data.
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Unlike United States Steel or Standard Oil, two of corporate history's biggest brutes, today's tech monopolies are rarely the exclusive provider of an essential commodity.
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Governments have also started to fret about foreign data monopolies, which they think hoover up local information and turn it into valuable artificial-intelligence services.
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Monopolies nobody wants to fix and regulators beholden to an industry they're supposed to hold accountable go a long way toward explaining the US ranking.
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Yet in the right hands, progressives continued to muse, information monopolies might be powerful tools for re-wiring societies malformed by racism, sexism, and transphobia.
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It doesn't help that enterprise communications is often dismissed as slow to innovate, given its high capital costs to deploy new infrastructure and natural monopolies.
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But this time, Clinton has an actual antitrust movement behind her, one that will both reward attempts to break up monopolies and criticize any retreat.
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American health care is a system of local monopolies that pocket sky-high profits at the expense of the taxpayers' and workers' incomes and health.
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But natural monopolies only work as long as there's oversight and regulation, and currently, the existing oversight and regulation appears to not be very strong.
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The antitrust laws will be redefined to legalize a bunch of previously illegal business models—and low and behold we have a bunch of monopolies.
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And the party does deserve praise for affirming its commitment to a $15 minimum wage and a crackdown on monopolies and mounting prescription drug costs.
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Then finally the Internet smashed the remaining media monopolies, scattered news readers to the online winds, and opened an age of purely individualized news consumption.
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Alex Moazed and Nicholas L. Johnson are the consultants turned authors of "Modern Monopolies: What It Takes to Dominate the 21st Century Economy" (St. Martins).
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Today many people associate economic change with deteriorating living standards: job losses, being ripped-off, or living under virtual monopolies in search and social networks.
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But it will put the company in its rightful place: at the center of the growing conversation about how to rein in America's tech monopolies.
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But those that will attract the most spending are often seemingly mundane changes to laws voters rarely consider, like housing, energy monopolies and casino gambling.
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Secondly, big business was dominated by monopolies in the early 20th century, only for populism to strike back in the form of trust-busting measures.
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The rise has fostered a suspicion that what Mrs May calls "monopolies and vested interests" have pushed up prices to unwary customers to inflate profits.
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Putting private capital at risk, rather than socializing risk through taxpayer or ratepayer-funded subsidies and regulated monopolies, ensures that companies properly assess their investments.
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Europe's rail industry still carries the imprint of old state monopolies, which have made it hard for new entrants to break in and win contracts.
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If tech monopolies are broken up, our economy would have more hiring, a broader tax base, more competition, more secure elections, and less teen depression.
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As companies, we are aligned with the shared mission of lowering barriers to broadband access and providing consumers with competitive alternatives to the incumbent monopolies.
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" The Trump administration's willingness to shape policy to meet the demands of the big two steel companies confirms Dayen's concern about creating "domestic steel monopolies.
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U.S. regulators often insist on divestitures as a way of protecting competition without having to file lawsuits to prevent mergers that would lead to monopolies.
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In his account, the new monopolies are even more powerful than the old ones, which tended to be limited to a single product or service.
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With the advent of ride-sharing services like Uber, consumers have seen firsthand the overcharge and lack of quality that comes with government-created monopolies.
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Without a specific pass from the government, the coordination could run afoul of antitrust laws, which are meant to prevent monopolies and maintain competitive markets.
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Democratic 2020 presidential candidates will meet in rural Iowa later this month to debate monopolies and approaches to antitrust enforcement, The Hill has confirmed. Sens.
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The Trump administration has accused Amazon of skirting government rules to maximize profits, while Democrats have called out the role of monopolies in big tech.
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As this backlash against Silicon Valley grows, we need to be careful that a desire to constrain tech monopolies doesn't harm the rest of us.
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But little progress is being made on other priorities, including repairing infrastructure, ensuring small firms are not squashed by monopolies and reforming the education system.
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Between the Amazon's growth and political influence, and the recent AT&T-Time Warner merger, the US could be giving way to unprecedented corporate monopolies.
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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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Consumer groups have chastised the F.T.C. decision as a failure of American antitrust enforcement that paved the way for tech giants to grow into monopolies.
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The largest question mark among the major candidates is Senator Kamala Harris of California, who represents the state where the largest tech monopolies are headquartered.
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This has allowed these firms to achieve near-monopolies over new services based on user data, such as training machine learning and artificial intelligence systems.
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My favorite: they could use their monopoly powers to require app developers to insert watermarks — which could then be easily detected by other tech monopolies.
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The editorial board pressed him on his (oddly) regressive economic proposals, his history in college test prep and how he'd take on Silicon Valley monopolies.
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But while these firms are increasingly formidable and deserve scrutiny, over all their market power appears less durable than infrastructure-based monopolies of previous generations.
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The reason why 5G will "break up" the ISP monopolies is because 5G networks are much easier and cheaper to deploy than laying down cables.
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In September, Brazil's Finance Ministry asked an audit court to study how the government could exit the golden shares it holds in former state monopolies.
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"Telecom and cable monopolies exploit their dominant market power to gouge consumers and lobby government at all levels to keep out competition," the proposal notes.
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The brands drive valuable innovation in the marketplace, but they also do whatever they can to protect their monopolies and insulate their drugs from competition.
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They appear as a threat to the old regime, which was accustomed to manufacturing monoculture quickly and easily through the content monopolies of broadcast media.
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"All consumer appliances, from refrigerators to microwaves, very much have repair monopolies from manufacturers, even if you are able to buy parts," Gordon-Byrne said.
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" He also criticized one paper from the group, which he alleged "defends the special privileges that Congress has given to left-wing Silicon Valley monopolies.
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"It would set up the next president to shut down this program completely" But government monopolies for marijuana run into a huge hurdle: federal prohibition.
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A prize system just has to work better than the existing system of patent monopolies, and there are good reasons to think that it would.
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As they matured, Google and the rest turned out much like other big companies, seeking to establish de facto monopolies and milking them for their shareholders.
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In April, for the second time in as many years, Booth, the university's business school, invited leading antitrust thinkers to discuss monopolies, this time in tech.
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Think of someone who has been there for a very long time — someone like Microsoft and the monopolies it's had for some time over [Microsoft] Office.
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Certainly not when the only reward is to further enrich a handful of already extravagantly wealthy corporations with literal monopolies over vast swaths of the country.
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Breaking up some of these monopolies, or at least slowing down the pace of the hospital mergers is the simplest way to ease this pricing pressure.
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If there are instances where there are monopolies, it would seem overkill to have an entire federal agency dedicated to ex ante regulation of their services.
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The economy must be cut free from the growing power of corporate monopolies and the planning restrictions that shut people out of the most prosperous cities.
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Its technology giants may be less vulnerable to competition than the Japanese multinationals of the late 1980s because they benefit from "network effects", or natural monopolies.
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Cronyism, ludicrous tort law, local monopolies by hospitals, and a dense mesh of rules and restrictions create a "cost disease" that wastes $1 trillion a year.
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Fears that the company has too much market power have driven antitrust actions in Europe and a widening conversation about tech monopolies in the United States.
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"Startups with low numbers of customers don't have the leverage to extort money out of content providers, so you'd be artificially solidifying the monopolies," he said.
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But lawmakers and policy experts found that, as much as anything, they stopped new competition from challenging existing monopolies hospitals have on certain health care services.
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LONDON, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Britain's opposition Labour Party would create a dedicated technology regulator to prevent market abuse and look at breaking up monopolies like Facebook.
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If they raise prices on popular ones, they will lose customers (where there is a choice, that is—many broadband providers enjoy regional monopolies; see chart).
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The firm dates back to the 1023s, when Pratt & Whitney was part of the granddaddy of aerospace monopolies with Boeing and what would become United Airlines.
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As the Obama administration reported last spring, U.S. business concentration has increased markedly since the late 1990s – which typically enables monopolies and oligopolies to charge more.
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The government last year cancelled the business licence of one of its sponsoring entities, after Unirule criticised policies that favour state monopolies and hamper private firms.
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In the key digital monopolies, the network becomes more valuable to each user the more people use it—hence Facebook's 67% market share in social networking.
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Sitting around kitchen tables, I heard story after story about how farmers were struggling to survive because of the big monopolies they faced at every turn.
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The natural monopolies of massive telecom companies tend to push wireless technology forward on their own terms, a fact that's not always in innovation's best interest.
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Donald Trump's ascension to the White House could mean a lot for Hollywood, from potential Federal Communications Commission regulation changes to less oversight on media monopolies.
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The health care sector is a system of monopolies and oligopolies -- that is, there are few producers in the marketplace and few limits on market power.
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"This is different from the previous revolutions, where value is the rise from scarcity where people are trying to create monopolies and walled gardens," Balakrishnan said.
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But starting in 22015, with the Second New Deal, Brandeis's faction gained the upper hand and began to take apart the centralized power of corporate monopolies.
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That began to change in 2011 when Thein Sein, then the country's president, ended the military conglomerates' tax exemptions and their import monopolies on many goods.
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Google is charged with using these near-monopolies to reinforce each other and also to extend its market power to other apps in its line-up.
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It broke up local voice and cable monopolies and allowed competition across traditional industry boundaries, which set in motion the race to build the broadband Internet.
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We can't let 20th century labor laws that burdened citizens with unwavering taxi monopolies – across nearly every town and city in the U.S. – make a return.
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But there seems to be a double standard: On other issues, like natural gas, the prime minister has been loath to take a stand against monopolies.
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For decades, the government has allowed ASCAP and BMI to operate as monopolies in exchange for anticompetitive protections that ensure efficient and effective licensing for consumers.
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Our government has a responsibility to protect free and open competition, and step in to break up monopolies and other inherently anti-competitive schemes when necessary.
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The risk of data-based monopolies and 'winner-takes-all' economics from big tech's big data push to garner AI advantage should be loud and clear.
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Gelernter and Revolution Populi CEO Rob Rosenthal, a 19-year veteran of Goldman Sachs, spoke to Business Insider about their gambit to challenge social media monopolies.
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But industrialization, population growth, the closure of the frontier, and railroad monopolies doomed the sole proprietorship to the margins of the economy, even in North America.
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Patricof said antitrust laws need to be revised, joining calls from scholars and academics who have argued for a paradigm shift in how monopolies are regulated.
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Holding the influential competition portfolio for the past five years, Vestager has fought monopolies and imposed hefty fines on tech giants Apple and Alphabet unit Google .
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In addition, defenders of natural monopolies often make the case that they benefit consumers because they are able to provide services more cheaply than anyone else.
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The great monopolies of that period — Rockefeller's Standard Oil, the sugar trust, the financial and railroad interests — used their power to corrupt the economy and politics.
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A good first step in the United States would be to break up agribusiness giants that have virtual monopolies in regional seed, chemical, and meat markets.
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But when you look at what drives the increases in drug spending, it's the prices of the brand-name drugs that are protected by those monopolies.
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STEPHEN SOMERSTEINSAN FRANCISCO To the Editor: The most important lesson of the New York City taxi mess is that government-granted monopolies disserve the public interest.
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Go deeper: For tech, antitrust is a fatal distraction Facebook's plan: One messaging service to rule them all For Apple, Facebook and Google, markets define monopolies
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They're not monopolies because—as their argument goes—how can one or two or even four companies monopolize the seemingly eternal digital space of the internet?
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Less well known are the efforts of Chinese lawyers to initiate antitrust actions in Chinese courts to invalidate patents on the theory they create illegal monopolies.
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The companies have all denied that they function as monopolies or take advantage of their powerful market position in areas including social media and digital advertising.
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The party's platform of reforming the army, decentralising government and breaking up business monopolies won it support from young Thais but enmity from the ruling elite.
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Andres referred to the businessmen as oligarchs, saying the government allowed them to run monopolies over segments of the Ukrainian economy in exchange for financial backing.
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This era has also ushered in a period Lemann calls "Network Man," when communication networks allowed a handful of companies to establish monopolies in their sectors.
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The Pelosi bill attempts to appease both camps by focusing on government price negotiations for the highest-cost, highest-use drugs that enjoy patent-protected monopolies.
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LISBON (Reuters) - Tech companies like Google and Facebook seem like monopolies and need new rules, the organizer of one of the world's biggest technology summits said.
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Without real competition, hospital systems, like all monopolies, are free to charge high prices for a subpar product — which is, in this case, your medical care.
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Past experiences with privatization of other natural monopolies, such as the Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority (PRASA), did not improve the service or the price.
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The big picture: Hospital systems like Sutter have grown over the years due to heavy consolidation, which has turned many hospital markets into monopolies or oligopolies.
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Given that part of the problem is a lack of competition, it would be a mistake to give the state back its monopolies, as Mr Corbyn suggests.
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The Obama administration had previously argued that the deal would create Medicare Advantage monopolies in 70 counties and increase market concentration in hundreds more across the country.
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Affordability of access is a perhaps even greater challenge, especially because steep barriers of entry and esoteric policies have created exploitative monopolies and duopolies in many regions.
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Most of the major challenges the candidates discussed — including unaffordable health care, income inequality and stagnant wages — can't be solved without checking monopolies' economic and political power.
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C-suite executives and corporate shareholders are the ones who win when monopolies and oligopolies reign, meaning that the top 0.1% capture the bulk of monopoly rents.
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" The description goes on to call for democratic rule (or "people power") and a "responsible government responsible to people, not only responsible to banks and conglomerate monopolies.
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It would be a shame if we let AT&T and Verizon partition it because they want to be as powerful as the old cable television monopolies.
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These laws were uniformly lobbied for by big telecom providers and help preserve the monopolies that these companies have in many cities and towns around the country.
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Oligopolies and monopolies abound, and over the past decade the country's position in the World Bank's ease-of-doing-business index has slid from 26th to 52nd.
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Google, Amazon, Facebook and Uber are near monopolies that provide services as integral to our modern life as power, telephone and transportation systems were a century ago.
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In 2011, he introduced the Medical Innovation Prize Fund Act to incentivize investment in new medicine while eliminating "monopolies" on the research, thereby driving down drug prices.
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LONDON (Reuters Breakingviews) - Should Jeremy Corbyn win Britain's next election, his Labour Party has said it will end private sector ownership of natural monopolies like water companies.
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First, to bundle their services so tightly that it is impossible for outsiders to isolate the products that are monopolies and work out their profits and assets.
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It's true that no ISP owns the entire US market, but the way they've arranged their services is such that de facto monopolies exist in various municipalities.
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And it points to concerns raised previously by the German Monopolies Commission over how a concentration of ad-relevant data in individual companies could create competition problems.
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This week on The Vergecast, Nilay, Paul, Russell, and Dieter dedicate half the show to The Verge's monopoly week, which dives into the future of tech monopolies.
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The state could instead tame an unruly boom, MMTers argue, by breaking up monopolies—thus loosening supply constraints—or by aiming tax increases at fossil-fuel firms.
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What we get concerned about is if the power of those monopolies is foreclosing competition in other markets or is in other ways harming consumers and competition.
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I'll be taking the frame of my book that the tech monopolies have created a winner-takes-all framework, but really looking at how that affects privacy.
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I would be surprised if at some point the European regulators, in particular, didn't start to question the impact of internet monopolies on the rights of citizens.
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But, from telecoms to the airline industry to big tech, monopolies have been growing under the noses of the American public and government for a while now.
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On the kind of structural business side, at the core of this problem, at least the one that we were talking about here, is data monopolies, right?
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And markets dominated by former monopolies, he worries, will foster too little competition in building networks and laying fibre cables to prepare Europe for future digital growth.
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The CCCS thinks it has "reasonable grounds" to suspect that the deal may run afoul of section 215 of Singapore's Competition Act regulating against overly dominant monopolies.
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" One need look no further than the best-selling drug on the planet, AbbVie's Humira, to see an example of a patent "shield to protect unfair monopolies.
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The conversation has moved from whether monopolies were a problem at all to how to solve the monopoly problem in the fastest-moving part of the economy.
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Both companies, he argued, satisfy the traditional criteria for utility regulation: They have large market share, are natural monopolies, and are difficult for customers to do without.
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Though the country has centuries-old antitrust laws to prevent companies from becoming monopolies who can control pricing in unfair ways, airlines have basically done so anyways.
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That's good news, because it means it won't get a chance to kill competitors and suppress wages in the name of monopolies...no wait, we mean efficiency.
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And while these merchants are investing in new, innovative and inexpensive plants, monopolies are pursuing expensive boondoggles like those plaguing customers in South Carolina, Mississippi and Georgia.
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Here are the highlights: The world's biggest public companies — like Apple, Alphabet and Amazon — have become so dominant that some critics have said they border on monopolies.
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To bring down costs, Democrats should heed their own anti-trust agenda from earlier this summer by cracking down on internet monopolies charging everyday Americans astronomical rates.
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These local monopolies were permitted because it was (and is) very expensive to build the infrastructure that would bring TV and later internet to homes and businesses.
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Ethiopia's government announced plans last week to allow private-sector participation in key economic areas that have long operated as government monopolies, including energy, telecommunications and aviation.
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Lawmakers have also granted pharmaceutical companies long patent monopolies on their products, making it hard for generic drug companies to offer cheaper versions of brand-name medicines.
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In the United States, several of the Democratic presidential hopefuls have described Google, Facebook and other tech giants as monopolies that should be scrutinized for antitrust violations.
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Facebook and Google weren't founded with the goal of becoming monopolies, but the companies have become too powerful, storied tech investor Alan Patricof told CNBC on Friday.
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Local government agreements with the telecom industry and state-level legislation enacted by roughly half of all states have helped the industry maintain and ensure their monopolies.
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Of particular note could be the slow upstream speeds on aging DSL lines that have been long neglected by U.S. telecom monopolies despite billions in taxpayer subsidies.
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The book echoes some of the themes of Tim Wu's 2010 history, "The Master Switch," which documented the tendency of information technology to produce cartels and monopolies.
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I'm under no delusion that, with libertarian tech moguls like Peter Thiel in President Trump's inner circle, antitrust regulation of the internet monopolies will be a priority.
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Ultimately we may have to wait four years, at which time the monopolies will be so dominant that the only remedy will be to break them up.
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Anti-semitism, racism, Islamophobia and other strains are not the monopolies of one political party, but the condemnation should be shared by both — loudly, completely and instantly.
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In order to maintain monopolies on life-saving treatments, pharmaceutical companies often file dozens of unmerited patents on their drugs, blocking the generic competition that lowers prices.
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He rules a business empire that includes the global advertising agency Havas, a controlling stake in the media conglomerate Vivendi and rail and port monopolies in Africa.
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Mr. Pashinyan has vowed to break up the cozy system of oligarchic monopolies and invigorate an economy that has left a third of the country in poverty.
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For if you concede that Warren is simply trying to get a handle on out-of-control tech monopolies, you would propose discussion and deliberation, not warfare.
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Some local health systems have become monopolies that can largely set prices as they please — leading to higher premiums and more out-of-pocket spending for consumers.
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Although Africa's governments have mostly got out of the seed-production business, governments often subsidise seeds and former state monopolies still dominate the seed trade (see article).
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Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren has led the call for a breakup in what is being portrayed on the campaign trail as a new era of monopolies.
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In March, Elizabeth Warren unveiled a plan to "break up big tech," following a wave of growing sentiment that companies like Facebook, Amazon, and Google constitute monopolies.
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Aside from being a look at the highly competitive world of restaurants, the story raises questions about the highly uncompetitive world of government agencies that hold monopolies.
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Agribusiness monopolies eat away at farmers' profit, from the seeds they grow to the chemicals they buy to the supply chain that gets their product to market.
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The risk increases when the contracted LNG is delivered not into regulated monopolies, but increasingly competitive downstream markets with growing exposure to international spot fundamentals and prices.
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As with most government-created monopolies, Pemex has been plagued by corruption and inefficiency, ultimately forfeiting its incentive to take risk and prospect for sub-surface resources.
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The Portuguese mariners who pioneered the sea route to the Indian Ocean brought with them not just their religion but also the prevalent European faith in monopolies.
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Meanwhile, politicians like Elizabeth Warren have been increasingly calling for a breakup of big tech companies like Facebook, Google and Amazon, amid concerns they may be monopolies.
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Her bill would also prevent the passage of tough rules later by a future FCC or Congress less beholden to the every whim of entrenched broadband monopolies.
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"We should beware of licensing monopolies," says Djamel Ould Abbas, the 83-year-old secretary-general of the National Liberation Front (FLN), which has ruled Algeria since independence.
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They also argued that the FCC was misreading telecommunications law, forcing ISPs to abide by rules that were crafted in the 1930s to regulate old-school telephone monopolies.
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In a CNN Town Hall last month, Pete Buttigieg said that, if elected president, he would work to empower the Federal Trade Commission to better attack tech monopolies.
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While not well understood at the time, Section 230 was one policy lever that would enable a powerful set of internet monopolies to emerge in the next decade.
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The more distinctive a product, and the higher the barriers to entry, the more its seller resembles the nasty monopolies of the textbooks: raising prices and gouging profits.
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And so the idea is that previous cases that argued that big firms were obviously monopolies were misguided because they didn't account for the threat of potential entry.
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UnitedHealth, Humana, Aetna — A new study found that the pullback of health insurers from the Affordable Care Act marketplaces may create monopolies, according to The Wall Street Journal.
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An alternative is to regulate these companies like utilities—monopolies with high market shares that provide an essential service from which it is expensive for consumers to switch.
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And we need one that recognizes free-market competition is the best way to spur growth, and that government-granted monopolies should be the exception to the rule.
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Flash back to the early 2000s, when Microsoft was the undisputed king of the tech industry, with two unassailable monopolies — operating systems and productivity apps for personal computers.
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The review board in DeLauro's bill would have the power to take steps, including shortening monopolies or imposing fines on companies that it deems to have price gouged.
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Once you start getting monopolies on the colored property spaces, you can increase the rent that other players have to pay you by adding house tokens to them.
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The plan promises to "crack down on monopolies and the concentration of economic power"—bringing back a concept, monopoly power, that has all but disappeared from political conversation.
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As such it remains a very real possibility that Google offloads the project eventually, leaving us all once again lost in the angry embrace of monopolies like Comcast.
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It is cold comfort to Mr Zuckerberg that should his defences fail, Big Tech's critics will have to concede that digital monopolies are not that invincible after all.
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The Nguyens' extensive land-registry records made it easy to collect property taxes; the French also drew revenue from state monopolies on alcohol, gambling, opium and rice production.
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Crony-state capitalism has imposed rentier monopolies and cartels on wage earners, effectively transferring more of the nation's income and wealth to politically powerful entrenched interests and cartels.
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Both Brandeis and Roosevelt supported public utilities regulation as a way to deal with monopolies, but Brandeis is generally seen as a decentralizer and Roosevelt as a nationalist.
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The CGT opposes the principle of liberalisation and a pact under which all European Union governments have committed to start phasing out all passenger rail monopolies from 2020.
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One way to do this is to put an end to the practice known as "evergreening," opportunistic efforts by branded drug manufacturers to extend monopolies and block competition.
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It could regulate drugs like utility monopolies, setting up a commission to calculate prices based on reasonable costs (including research and development and failed drugs) and appropriate profit.
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While property rights, rule of law, and free markets are key factors for economic growth and human flourishing, monopolies overcharge consumers and retard economic growth by misallocating resources.
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The goal is to allow firms to recover their R&D costs and enough profits to encourage a beneficial level of innovation, but not to allow perpetual monopolies.
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For the upcoming enrollment period, Americans are being hit with another round of double-digit premium hikes and nearly half of our nation's counties are facing Obamacare monopolies.
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But that consensus is starting to fall apart, thanks to a new awareness of the ways in which tech monopolies are crowding out competition and hurting consumer choice.
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Local governments need to be empowered to decide how to improve internet access rather than leaving their businesses and residents at the mercy of a few big monopolies.
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Utilities, she said, are state-granted monopolies that violate free-market principles, but "they want to keep utility consumers shackled to them and deny energy freedom and choice."
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In 17th- and 18th-century Britain, big merchants got the state to grant them monopolies over trade in particular goods, forcing small craftsmen to submit to their regulations.
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We see huge private monopolies — operating outside of any real democratic oversight and often subsidized by taxpayers – with the power to control almost every aspect of our lives.
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A wave of so-called right-to-repair or fair repair bills that would prevent companies from having repair monopolies have been introduced in states around the country.
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Electric utilities tend to be heavily regulated monopolies with guaranteed returns, operating in a market where the basic underlying technologies have, until recently, not changed substantially in decades.
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It lays out the need to take apart the health care lobby, reduce patent monopolies, break up hospital chains, and build a strong safety net to boost wages.
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Klobuchar's bill doesn't highlight American tech companies specifically, but it would help provide authorities the tools to better tackle tech monopolies and encourage them to follow the law.
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I want to talk about what that model might look like, but first I'll ask if you think people should be worried about the emergence of marijuana monopolies?
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In 22018, New York University economist Thomas Philippon did a deep dive into market concentration and monopolies in The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets.
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On our cover this month, Vox's Dylan Matthews examines Hughes's transformation from Facebook founder to a philanthropist on a mission to end monopolies and create a basic income.
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None of this matters much in places where providers have monopolies, as patients don't have any choice about where they get their care and thus can't shop around.
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From 1996 until 2015 under bipartisan congressional leadership and multiple administrations it was agreed that the internet would flourish if exempt from regulations designed for legacy telephone monopolies.
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"I'm not out here to necessarily beat up Amazon as much as deal with this whole area of monopolies and megalomaniacs," Patterson said in a "Squawk Box" interview.
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"Our antitrust laws cannot do anything against these types of monopolies," said Luigi Zingales, a finance professor at the University of Chicago, during a convocation address in June.
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Japan's former 22.4 power monopolies have barely recovered from the 21 Fukushima nuclear disaster, the resultant high fuel costs after most reactors were shut and costly safety upgrades.
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Based on what we have seen, it is clear that the FCC's existing Network Neutrality Rules are not enough to stop non-diverse monopolies from commandeering the Net.
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Even less rapacious monopolies like the old New Jersey-based AT&T — which once owned nearly every telephone in the country — proved themselves to be staid and inefficient.
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"It's the arrangement that corporations found beneficial in a system that provides monopolies and rewards secrecy, and we should ask for considerably more as the standard," he said.
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The tech world is becoming "winner take all," said Mr. Idezawa, who noted that the leading global companies were developing monopolies on everything from human resources to finance.
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And the organization floated some timeworn proposals, such as importing medicines from Canada and prosecuting drug makers for violating consumer protection laws that protect against predatory pricing monopolies.
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Two major factors cause these high costs, namely, a lack of competition allowing pharmaceuticals to create monopolies and risk-averse regulations by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
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This is a very important agency because, by tradition, busting up national monopolies and ensuring continent-wide competition was one of the primary missions of the European Union.
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ONE BRIGHT morning earlier this year your correspondent travelled from New York to the University of Chicago to attend a conference on the threat to prosperity posed by monopolies.
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Asked how their names wound up on the FCC's website next comments slamming "wealthy leftist billionaires and powerful Silicon Valley monopolies," the residents of Sharpsburg, Georgia, were reasonably confused.
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After all, our collective disdain of regional monopolies like Comcast and AT&T is one of the very few things that tends to bridge the nation's deep, partisan divides.
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"Not satisfied with those [monopolies] he has established on the living," Muhammad Ali "has lately introduced one also in the kingdom of the dead," the London Morning Post declared.
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Critics have warned that its misguided approach would empower pseudo-monopolies and kill fair use practices that are essential for the production of everything from memes to online encyclopedias.
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Mr Stephenson says his aim is to foster more competition—namely, to be a national competitor to the cable providers, each of whom have regional near-monopolies in broadband.
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Remember that the people fought, and the people won, and for a brief moment, big telecom monopolies had at least some limits placed on them by the federal government.
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When it comes to Alphabet, Mike Khouw of Optimize Advisors says the real issue is that Alphabet is losing many of the quasi-monopolies it has in some businesses.
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And because it's a private platform, Landis doesn't face the hassle of dealing with the multiple listing services that tend to have regional monopolies over real estate listing data.
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