Sentences with word «oligopoly»

He said that on housing, Labour «bet the ranch on the private oligopoly of house builders but it's in their interests to bank land and ration housing so that house prices continue to rocket».

Another issue, is that of a Monopoly / Oligopoly in Canada vs more competition in the US.

It is a nice cozy oligopoly with ever increasing bills for the same service.

The technologies could become controlled by oligopolies such as Apple, Google or big banks...

In various countries, we see an expansion of oligopolies for the production of cereals and other products needed for their cultivation.

This would provide all the benefits of using modern technology without blindly trusting the tech oligopoly with your decisions, health data and whereabouts.

«So in this case they replaced a cozy oligopoly where [the oil companies] were sending a little bit of work to both of them with a little competition which Kolt lost and the other guy won — how is that not competition?»

«We gravitate more toward oligopolies where there's just a few players.»

Even for a libertarian like me, I can justify a bailout like Ackman's, because it hurts those that tried to profit from the public / private oligopoly.

I agree that they are undermining the publishing oligopoly by eroding their stranglehold on distribution.

With AA joining DL and UA as their carbon copy, the transition of the US airline to a «collusive oligopoly» is now complete.

The AFR reports ACCC Chairman, Rod Sims, pushing for an effects test again (Misa Han, «ACCC wants to curb oligopoly power» (AFR, 11 January 2016)-RRB- and former ACCC Chairman, Graeme Samuel and Wesfarmers chief executive, Richard Goyder, pushing against any change (Misa Han, «Sims power push runs into trouble» (AFR, 12 January 2016) and Patrick Durkin, «Goyder joins war over ACCC powers» (AFR, 13 January 2016)-RRB-.

Competing against the Canadian telecom oligopoly is a challenge in which VimpelCom may not be interested, speculates one analyst who requested anonymity.

The government should represent the interests of farmers and consumers instead of the corporate oligopolies of the food and agriculture industry.

«I don't see adequate evidence that our existing oligopolies are really hedging against those competitive threats,» Winegard said.

They operate in a nice oligopoly, but there is only so much growth that can be extracted from Canada alone.

Commenting on where else companies could advertise, Mr Kershaw said there are alternatives: «But we live in a very strong oligopoly with Facebook and Google.»

Being a protected oligopoly, our banks have a habit of taking customers for granted.

Also, being part of the regulated oligopoly of consumer utilities delivering a core need for people in the United States, they aren't likely to be disrupted by a technology change (in fact, they may benefit from it if it costs them less).

They should not only apply to state - citizen, but also to citizen - citizen relationships In the case of information provision there should be protection against information oligopolies organized by fellow - citizens.

Retailers would be duly put in their place and the paper oligopoly would be protected by inflated ebook prices across the board.

So let's stick with McKay, given the leaders of Canada's banking oligopoly so rarely expose themselves to scrutiny by the broader public.

Part of a stable 5 - company oligopoly for life reinsurance.

Canada's wireless oligopoly, for better or worse, may prove just as unshakable.

The better answer is systemic reform to the credit oligopoly.

«Abe administration will urgently need to set a scheme to accelerate merger of regional banks with clearer oligopoly issues in order to increase Japan's financial stability,» she said.

Nobody misses, or will confess to missing, the days of corporate - controlled media oligopolies, but you have to admit they did a good job of simulating social harmony.

The airlines that survived the volatile decade following 9/11 have since consolidated themselves into a lucrative oligopoly, prompting questions about why smaller cities continue to lose service, why seats keep getting smaller, why fares have remained stubbornly high even as fuel prices dropped and profits soared, and why paying passengers are being quasi-defenestrated from overbooked flights.

Of course, Amazon is still a longshot from impacting the Google and Facebook ad oligopoly, but the two leaders would be wise to take the emerging threat seriously.

Before the rise of e-commerce, many brick and mortar retailers enjoyed local monopolies or oligopolies based solely on geography.

I hope he knows that except pretending otherwise to please his wealthy friends in Insurance business to make another monopoly and oligopoly business industry for the wealthy.

Weak antitrust laws enable large corporations to have the power of monopolies oligopolies, though such power actually tends to discourage innovation.

Unsurprisingly for someone of his ideological perspective, Martin suggests that the ills of capitalism as it currently exists can be solved by breaking up corporate giants like Google and Facebook — on the grounds that concentrated power is dangerous, and monopolies and oligopolies prevent markets functioning properly.

Maybe even some traditional friends too by having a coherent NHS / education policy not one that just pays 3rd party oligopolies to manage things with lower wages / service.

I can't entirely be against the Big 5 for trying to fight that, even if only to hold on to their own oligopoly.

It not only helps in analyzing economic conditions but also studies the social needs under different market structures, namely oligopoly, monopoly, perfect competition, duopoly, etc..

A six - headed oligopoly with nearly the same share ain't that much more pleasant, really, particularly with Murdochs and music industry involved and the whiff of cartel about it.

The big five are all about protecting their print oligopoly.

All of these laws redound to the benefit of bigger corporations who can handle the overhead and whose oligopolies are thereby entrenched, at the expense of smaller competitors and consumers in general.

But on the other hand, in a free market, we would expect to see fewer oligopolies anyway and thus less monopolistic abuse or price fixing in the first place.