The Big Deal of Antitrust Laws for Small Business
In general, extreme market concentration is not beneficial to anyone in society except the owners and top officials of the large corporations. Squeezing out small businesses increases the cost of…
The man behind the curtain pulling all the levers isn’t a man—it’s a monopoly. And it controls your world.
Monopolies are bad. Bad for you. Bad for me. Bad for everyone except the monopoly owners. What’s a monopoly you say? A monopoly is the exclusive possession or control of the supply of or trade in a commodity or service. Sounds pretty wonky but it’s not.
Reining In Monopoly Power Webinar Event With ILSR
AMIBA partnered with ILSR on this important event on February 22, 2021. Watch the video.
The pandemic exposed, and turbocharged, many inequalities in our economy, including years of rampant market power abuse by dominant corporations at the expense of small businesses.
The fat cats aren’t fat cats because they built a better mousetrap. They’re fat cats because they bought all the mice and made your mousetrap irrelevant.
Local business depends on free enterprise to thrive. But when free enterprise is choked by monopolies exerting control over the marketplace, local businesses suffer. Monopolies centralize power over products and resources by dominating the marketplace so that local...