Sentences with phrase «private oligopoly»

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.

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».

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The right response here is: for the state to leave this alone and let the companies involved work out whatever contractual terms they wish, whether agency model, wholesale model, or some hybrid; stop employing antitrust law against even nominally private companies; stop enacting and enforcing laws that give rise to monopoly prices and oligopolies and corporatism and crony capitalism in the first place, such as copyright law, antitrust law, pro-union legislation, minimum wage, taxation in general, inflation and the business cycle, and other business regulations.

Destroying or at least fundamentally reworking the oligopoly private journal system would be far more useful, and what's more, would avoid at least one part of making science more and more unpleasant and unattractive as a career with each passing year.