monopoly
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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
A jury found that Live Nation, which owns Ticketmaster, operated as a monopoly.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
Boys do not have a monopoly on the Staring Business, after all.
From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green
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
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
Even as the federal government battled monopolies in court, something else happened that made unprecedented fortunes possible—a revolutionary way of thinking about stock.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 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
Why does the Japanese food-processing industry, like the German beer industry, consist of small companies with local monopolies?
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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