monopoly
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Creating an effective monopoly by issuing a patent to the same company that sets the price has led to predictable results.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
China holds a near monopoly on the production of polysilicon.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
It rejected the assumption that both shared: that public safety must remain an institutional monopoly.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
A jury found that Live Nation, which owns Ticketmaster, operated as a monopoly.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
Lewis Strauss’s monopoly on the scientific information reaching Dwight Eisenhower was about to end, taking with it Ernest Lawrence’s influence over nuclear policy.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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
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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