Building Monopolies, One Merger After Another

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 BY JIM HIGHTOWER Corporate World is experiencing a surge in the urge to merge. Control of market after market – from cable TV to chickens, banking to washing machines – has been seized by less than a handful of enormous corporations. Rather than compete, they collude to set prices, cut quality, shrink service and squeeze out any would-be competitors. There was a time, not that long ago, when monopolies, duopolies and oligopolies were not only […]

Jim Hightower
Jim Hightower
Populist author, public speaker and radio commentator Jim Hightower writes "The Hightower Lowdown," a monthly newsletter chronicling the ongoing fights by America's ordinary people against rule by plutocratic elites. Sign up at JimHightower.substack.com.