monopolies
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“Corporations doing these monopolies are keeping the audience from having access to a variety of things they would like,” says Ellis.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
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
A simpler derivatives contract could hurt some of CME’s and Cboe’s most popular products, which critics characterize as monopolies.
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 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
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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