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
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
To prevent some economic actors from having undue power over markets, we need to revitalize the tools we created in the late 1800s to fight monopolies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 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
Band organization is often described as “egalitarian”: there is no formalized social stratification into upper and lower classes, no formalized or hereditary leadership, and no formalized monopolies of information and decision making.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
