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"Kevin Oberman" writes: > > Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 00:40:24 -0500 > > From: "Perry E. Metzger" <[email protected]> > > > > I'm arguing that they haven't ever really existed, except with > > government intervention to create them. > > Guess this you could claim "government intervention" for most > anything, but I suggest you read up on Carnagie Steel, Standard Oil, > and a few others at the turn of the century. I have. If you read my messages in detail, you would have seen my comments on U.S. Steel (Carnegie Steel never controlled the bulk of the market) and Standard Oil. I suggest that *you* read up on them. You are probably operating on the vague comments you heard in your high school history classes, not on real reading. > And, if you want to claim that these were local, go out and buy a > diamond. While there are a few exceptions, DuBeers controlled the > world's diamond market totally until the past decade and still could > easily destroy the worlds diamond market in a day. How could they "destroy the market"? Is there a "diamond market" sitting in a hallway somewhere that I can shoot or something? Perry
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