Monopolies are going to be a hot button topic over the next decade
President Biden indirectly showed his hand a few weeks ago when he appointed legal scholar Lina Khan as Chair of the Federal Trade Commission. Khan has some non-standard views about what should be considered a monopoly in the United States and has pointed to big companies like Amazon . I'm still reading through her work so I'm not going to comment on it now. There is a lot to read. Conservatives don't even agree on the issues. Rachel Bovard at The American Conservative wants to explain why " Republicans Must Rethink Antitrust " and over at The National Review Robert Bork has a response to Ms Bovard entitled " The Dangers of a Conservative Antitrust Revival " Bork treats us to this exciting piece of hyperbole: ...she (Bovard) endorses a purported return to a conservative stand against bigness that would, if enacted, mean the end of capitalism as we know it in America . All of this monopoly talk comes because a judge threw out an attempt to brea...
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