The United States Postal Service is an example of a government-sanctioned monopoly. The government also regulates public utilities, like gas and electricity, to guarantee a regular supply.

All the Big Tech firms (Amazon, Apple, and Google) have leveraged their monopoly power in one market to gain dominance or favorable terms in another market. For example, Google leveraged its ...

Google has long defended itself against charges of monopoly by stressing that its products are free and that no one has to use them. And it's avoided tough government scrutiny for years based in ...

A checklist outlining the antitrust considerations for companies with monopoly power in one or more lines of business, including key questions to ask when responding to competition, entering into ...

However, where regulations are concerned, the U.S. courts have not unanimously identified a precise threshold of market share beyond which a company could be considered to possess monopoly power.

Highly concentrated labor markets drag down wages, with Amazon warehouses serving as one particularly stark example of monopoly power putting the screws to working families.

The power of tech giants (and giants in industries from air travel to beer) are starting to have damaging effects on the environment--and our democracy.

Booker, for example, sees the connection between inner-city food deprivation and the consolidation of power by industrial farm and food profiteers, saying, "These corporate agricultural ...

The hills are alive with the sounds of lawyers, often on phones, discussing matters of monopoly and antitrust. President Joe Biden’s just-issued executive order to encourage commercial compet… ...

Google has long defended itself against charges of monopoly by stressing that its products are free and that no one has to use them.