Sentences with phrase «as a monopoly»

And we can calculate how much billionaire wealth may come from market failures such as monopoly, which I define as wealth derived from finance and IT.

The suit alleges the defendants are acting as a monopoly by keeping fees they charge merchants for credit card transactions artificially high and that those fees would be lower in a free market environment.

As the monopoly of banks had ended, there are many lenders, both traditional and non-traditional, that offer unsecured personal loans.

Instead of serving as the monopoly public - school operator, government can also (or instead) oversee public schools operated by others.

Intel has long been one of the most dominant and pervasive technology companies in the world, essentially operating as a monopoly in its core computer -LSB-...]

Last year, Werner dressed as the Monopoly man and sat behind former Equifax CEO Richard Smith during his Senate hearing.

Today at Mark Zuckerberg's first of two hearings with Congress, the meme maker formerly known as the Monopoly Man made a surprise cameo in troll form to troll the Facebook founder.

Monopolies in the public sector are just as objectionable as monopolies in the private sector.»

Lumpy lowbrow humor and characters as thin as a Monopoly board mar «Game Night», a comedy with an irresistible premise, but that only.

The Milwaukee Public Schools functioned as a monopoly and exhibited all of the problems associated with monopolies in the private sector.

The original, which can only be described as Monopoly meets Magic: The Gathering as players take turns to lay down monster cards on a looping board of tiles, has since been ported to the PlayStation, Nintendo DS, PSP and PS3 in Japan and the PS2 in the US, but Revolt marks its first appearance in Europe, giving publisher NIS America the difficult task of trying to distil this complex card game to a new, unsuspecting audience.

I took her body and tied it to the bed and gagged her so that when she wakes up she can't open her stupid mouth and tell me to stop playing the most amazing game know as Monopoly for the Nintendo Switch.

Government - backed currencies have operated as monopolies for far too long.

They want government to provide a modest safety net that does not discourage work and to regulate business in an evenhanded way for the sake of safety and the environment and to prevent discrimination based on race or gender as well as monopoly control.

Lumpy lowbrow humour and characters as thin as a Monopoly board mar Game Night, a comedy with an irresistible premise, but that only.

As far as the monopoly, it doesn't seem altogether different from a Super Walmart being built and putting the local grocery store out of business.

In a 6 - to - 2 decision, the Court held that such action — whether mandated by state labor law or agreed to under a contract — runs afoul of the Congress's intent to establish the U.S. Postal Service as a monopoly.

Judge ruled SRP acted illegally against solar power customers as a monopoly power by changing rates in 2015.

As a monopoly insurer ICBC often has one adjuster assigned to look after a person's claim for no - fault benefits and at the same time look after the defendant's interests in the Plaintiff's tort claim.

Its research, its certification and training programmes, as well as the distribution of its planning tools such as the Passive House Planning Package (PHPP) and designPH can thus not be claimed as a monopoly by any single local entity.

Some observers have even concluded that AWS should be regulated as a monopoly.

Elliott's 336 - slide deck, distributed to Arconic shareholders and released publicly, depicted Kleinfeld as the Monopoly man, running away with money bags.

An absent or insufficient recognition of private initiative — in economic matters also — and the failure to recognize its public function, contribute to the undermining of the principle of subsidiarity, as monopolies do as well.»

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Games such as Monopoly Junior are aimed at ages 5 through 8.

Most of its liabilities stem from Royal Mail's time as a monopoly provider.

As monopoly owners of the commons who think of our environment the way Johnny Carson thought of his time, we could have more money coming in while we also secure larger parks, more nature reserves, less pollution, and better resource management.

One of the ORR's key roles is to limit the charges Network Rail, as the monopoly railway infrastructure manager in Britain, can impose for access to this infrastructure.

NYSUT even publicly lauded Republican candidate Rob Astorino for an open letter he wrote to teachers expressing his respect for their work after Cuomo characterized public education as a monopoly that he intends to break with stricter evaluations and competition from charter schools.

From a Marxist perspective it is impossible to avoid as monopoly formation is the natural action of the value form.

Rather than an epic adventure (or sports collection), Fortune Street is a video board game in the same vein as Monopoly.

Because if Amazon's allowed to continue dictating terms as a monopoly (and before you start in with that, «but they've got a ton of massive competitors» pedantry, I mean a monopoly in the sense that any successful company is sort of one, if they get really popular and want to determine how to operate their business) to the five remaining publishing conglomerates, the terrorists have already won.

Releasing this fall, the popular post-apocalyptic game franchise will be arriving as a Monopoly board game.

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The only things I remember about Life, the Hasbro boardgame that's nearly as awful as Monopoly, is 1) the spinner in the middle of the board means never having to roll dice, and 2) you put blue and pink pegs in your car to represent family members.

We are at a pivotal moment as the monopoly of the book breaks down and elementary concepts and symbols are losing their traditional forms to be reformatted for the future.

But the basic underlying problem was the IPCC's position as a monopoly (Tol's observation), which resulted in an inherently corrupt process, which required the creation of alarming projections by the scientists.

As monopolies subject to state oversight, «regulated» utilities occupy a curious position in a nation which prides itself on being a market economy.

Where the monopoly rights of international corporate publishers and large scholarly societies are providing remarkably high returns on investment, as monopolies tend to do, the Canadian faculty member publishing in a Canadian journal may not be receiving anything close to the potential return, in terms of that encouragement of learning, on the considerable investment in the research and scholarship that it has required to produce their article.

As a monopoly auto insurer with comprehensive databases, ICBC has access to a wide spectrum of information.

This idea, of course, sends chills through the hearts of many lawyers and regulators who want to maintain the legal services market as a monopoly.

In the wake of the Facebook - Cambridge Analytica debacle, we're hearing a lot of new and interesting ideas about how to solve the so - called Facebook problem: Let's classify Facebook as a monopoly and...

Once more, the value of cryptocurrency as a monopoly - transcending form of currency available to everyone in the world appears lost on the company — whose CEO, Jamie Dimon, once called Bitcoin a fraud.

Just as monopolies are BAD, government controls are also BAD.

Monday, the Supreme Court agreed to hear Comcast Corp.'s appeal of a lower court's decision that allowed television watchers in Philadelphia to sue it in a class action for allegedly overcharging for service and acting as a monopoly.

Werner, dressed as Monopoly's Rich Uncle Pennybags, sat just behind Smith for the entirety of his testimony, fiddling with a monocle and mopping their brow with oversized $ 100 bills.

District schools often operate as monopolies, particularly those serving low - income populations that have no other financially viable options.

But K — 12 public education for the most part functions as a monopoly, and expenditures are far removed from recipients (or their parents) and often are not even known by their providers (schools and districts).