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Barry Shein writes: > From: "Perry E. Metzger" <[email protected]> > >Monopolies are a chimera, a myth. Almost all monopolies that last for > >more than a couple of years have been the result of government > >regulation preventing market entry -- AT&T being a shining > >example. > > It is disingenuous to claim that monopolies are a myth merely because > they haven't existed in recent history. I'm arguing that they haven't ever really existed, except with government intervention to create them. Pick a point where you claim they have existed and an example or two of a lasting monopoly and we can talk. > Would you claim there have been no anti-monopoly or anti-trust actions > ever (successfully) prosecuted under Taft-Hartley? Would you claim that there have never been successful prosecutions for witchcraft? Perry
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