After we have calmly stood by and allowed monopolies to grow fat, we should not be asked to make them bloated.
Quotes about monopolies (16 Quotes)
Pennsylvania truly is a growth opportunity in what has been an otherwise slowing domestic growth business. The way Pennsylvania is laid out, the operators who get the licenses could have virtual monopolies. Most will have minimal competition.
Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.
The limit is not as narrow as it might be. I do not claim for this action, as it now goes on, an ideal degree of efficiency. What I do claim is that this type of competition already reveals its nature and its ultimate power to hold seeming monopolies in check.
This is the right result and a big win for consumers. DBS service is the first real competitor to local cable monopolies. As a result of this action, the last remaining DBS slot will not fall into the hands of the dominant cable companies.
Cost reduction remains critical. All industry partners and stakeholders will have to sustain their focus on fuel efficiency and attack costs. While we have made some good progress, the road ahead is long. Far too many airport monopolies do not understand the need for efficiency and too many governments are shirking their responsibility to regulate where commercial discipline is absent.
How come there's only one Monopolies Commission?
What is noticeable from the moves of the administration is that they are merely concerned with short-term responses that aim to elicit short-term public approval. Why is it that the oil monopolies and their profits remain untouchable Why is it that the oil deregulation law remains untouchable.
I don't think we can go back to the old days. But I think that what the government needs to do is it needs to make sure that the pricing is fair, that you don't have monopolies out there, so that people don't have a chance to compete fairly.
Nature hates monopolies and exceptions.
That means following a very restrictive fiscal and monetary policy which will squeeze the monopolies and cut their subsidies. On the micro level we will allow other economic agents, both domestic and foreign, to compete with them.
I talked about the barriers created by monopolies. I said that it was the role of government to break up these monopolies and that we couldn't do it alone.
These sensibilities are old, 19th century, republican ideals. That attitude has pretty much gone away. I've been reading muckraking books from the 1930s, when there was still this intense hatred and fear of monopolies - especially newspaper chains.
They're expecting to collect rent. Whether its government contracts or monopolies or lucrative business deals.
We're breaking huge monopolies. It just can't happen overnight. The time is takes is dependent on how long it takes to get rules on the books and whether or not the (Baby Bells) take the rules to court which is their right. Without question, consumers are going to get the competition Congress and the president promised,
We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels.