monopolies

The DOJ also proposed court oversight of Android to ensure the company refrains from using its ecosystem to "favour its general search services and search text ad monopolies."

The impetus behind tariffs is often to level the economic playing field, such as to avoid letting China subsidize production to create monopolies, said Usha Haley, professor of international business at Wichita State University.

Goods are too expensive, mostly because of corporate monopolies and concentration.

To critics like Sharkey, the former lead singer of the Undertones who nowadays is vocal about the state of UK's rivers, it’s an admission that the privatisation of essential monopolies has been a failure.

“One monopoly is bad enough. But a trifecta of monopolies is what we have here.”