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- From: helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman)
- Subject: Re: Be more creative than the FTC!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.005811.2728@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- References: <1992Dec22.115432.23467@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <1992Dec22.180054.1107@spang.Camosun.BC.CA>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 00:58:11 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec22.180054.1107@spang.Camosun.BC.CA>, dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker) writes:
- |> : |> AT&T?
- |> :
- |> : AT&T was only a monopoly because the goverment wouldn't allow other companies
- |> : to compete with it. In fact, I challenge you to name a single monopoly
- |> : which wasn't a monopoly because a goverment outlawed competition with it.
- |> : Name one which was a monopoly in America before the antitrust laws came in.
- |> : You can even name companies in countries which don't have antitrust laws.
- |>
- |> Standard Oil anyone?
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- When it was broken up in 1911 by the Shermen Antitrust act, it only had a 66%
- share of the market. Not even the great John D. Rockafeller himself could
- create as monopoly in a free market.
-