monopolies
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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
And regulators can be expected to take the same attitude toward suspected monopolies as the Ohio Supreme Court did in the 1892 Standard Oil ruling.
From Barron's ● May 2, 2026
There’s no competition; there are just a thousand local monopolies.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
