monopolies
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The practice “may distort competition, stifle innovation, and potentially lead to monopolies or market concentration in strategic sectors,” as the Center for Strategic and International Studies put it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 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
Department of Justice to investigate and break up giant industrial monopolies, became law.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 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
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
