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• News: Current Events: Business and Economy: Mergers and Monopolies  (28)
• News: Current Events: Business and Economy: Mergers and Monopolies: Media Consolidation  (18)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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