Online NewsHour: AOL/Time Warner Merger
Justice Dept. Opens Inquiry into AOL Time Warner Update: AOL Time Warner confirmed Wednesday that the Justice Department is investigating the accounting practices of its online division. Neither the media giant nor the Justice Dept. would specify which practices were under scrutiny, or whether the inquiry was a civil or criminal. AOL Time Warner officials said the company will cooperate fully.
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Government: an uncontrollable monopoly
People realize that the tools to control governments become more and more ineffective ...
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GATA and LeMetropole Campaign
Extensive multi-year research has led the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee (GATA) to the conclusion that the gold market is being overtly manipulated; and that the relationship of available physical gold to outstanding gold loans poses a serious risk to the U.S. and global financial systems.
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The Arthritic Hand of Oligopoly
A chapter from Human Society and the Global Economy by Kit Sims Taylor.
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Intel's Sell Out (Commentary)
March 26, 1999 Intel's Sell Out by Edward L. Hudgins Edward L. Hudgins is director of regulatory studies at the Cato Institute. Frankly, it's hard to generate much sympathy for Intel as a victim. There's every reason to believe it could have prevailed in its legal battle with the Federal Trade Commission, but last week it settled the case instead, with serious implications for the rest of the ...
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POWER ELITES & MONOPOLY POWER
This article deals with exploitative monopolies, their causes and cure and LAISSEZ-FAIRE, monopoly, socialism, & regulations. ...
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Oligopolies, Trusts and Monopolies in the 19th Century
In the south, the sugar trust was already well established. In the east, steel baron Andrew Carnegie dominated the whole industry.
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School Choice Would Break Union's Education Monopoly
National Center for Policy Analysis Month In Review Education August, 1996 School Choice Would Break Union's Education Monopoly What are American taxpayers getting for all those dollars spent on public education Not nearly enough, according to education analysts. By one measure, the productivity of public school employees today is about one-half what it was in 1950 -- while overall output per ...
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