J. P. Morgan's answer to
ruinous competition was to organize industrial trusts, huge business conglomerates that, in turn, evoked a more activist government to control and regulate them.
Not exact matches
After
ruinous bouts of
competition like this, rival railroad companies would agree to cooperate, pooling the business in certain areas and setting common rates.
In 1985 the then Intelsat director general Richard R. Colino wrote «While deregulation and free - market
competition are suitable in some business environments, in others they can cause
ruinous failures with devastating social implications if not carefully and effectively managed».
Any economist will tell you that unrestricted
competition is
ruinous to all involved.