monopoly

Creating an effective monopoly by issuing a patent to the same company that sets the price has led to predictable results.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026

China holds a near monopoly on the production of polysilicon.

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026

It rejected the assumption that both shared: that public safety must remain an institutional monopoly.

From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026

USA Today has a lawsuit pending against Google, alleging it holds a monopoly in ad tech that hurts the publisher’s ad revenue.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

Just as Lawrence had warned Sproul that the cyclotron diaspora was bound to end Berkeley’s monopoly on cheap grad-student labor, it was now ending Berkeleys monopoly on cyclotron technology.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

Landlords would only accept tenants who applied using a broker, which meant many brokers had monopolies on full blocks of apartments, and sometimes whole neighborhoods.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026

Department of Justice to investigate and break up giant industrial monopolies, became law.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

When Congress first created the FTC in the 1910s, it recognized that the agency’s mandates of protecting consumers and fighting monopolies should not be overly swayed by partisan politics.

From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2026

That all spells exciting times for sleepy, regulated natural monopolies that control the last kilometer to the customer.

From Barron's ● May 27, 2026

These local monopolies are reinforced by the Japanese government, which obstructs the import of foreign processed food by imposing a 10-day quarantine, among other restrictions.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond