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    • Bringing Consumer Choice to Electricity
      Position paper by Tom DeLay arguing that government-mandated monopoly production and pricing for electricity be ended.
    • GATA and LeMetropole Campaign
      Extensive multi-year research has led the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee (GATA) to the conclusion that the gold market is being overtly manipulated; and that the relationship of available physical gold to outstanding gold loans poses a serious risk to the U.S. and global financial systems.
    • Government Monopoly
      Your government is a kind of monopoly, too, with all the problems of any other monopoly. What should be done about it?
    • Government School Monopoly May Fall of Its Own Weight
      The seeds of liberty were planted in fertile soil in 18th-century America. Since then, the American Experiment has encouraged liberty and prosperity. But it also has been overrun by the vine-like spread of government intervention into fields like education.
    • Intel's Sell Out
      How Intel betrayed the information community when it caved on bogus anti-trust charges. By the widely respected Cato Institute.
    • Oligopoly, by Robert W. McChesney
      A few gigantic mega-corporations own almost all of the popular media sources, giving them control over most of what you can see and hear outside of the Internet.
    • Postmaster General Foresees End to Mail Monopoly
      The post office monopoly on delivering letters will fade away but the agency will maintain a secure place in America, former Postmaster General Marvin Runyon predicted.
    • Power Elites & Monopoly Power
      This article deals with exploitative monopolies, their causes and cure and with such ideas as laissez-faire economics, monopoly, regulations, and socialism.
    • School Choice Would Break the Education Monopoly
      What are American taxpayers getting for all those dollars spent on public education? Not nearly enough, according to education analysts.
    • Teachers' Organizations Seek to Break Education Union Monopoly
      Monopolies are bad, and that includes union monopolies like the one in education...but some organizations are struggling to give teachers more choice.
    • The Arthritic Hand of Oligopoly
      A few huge corporations control many markets and industries, to the detriment of society. This is an analysis of the problem.
    • Union Corruption: Why It Happens, How to Combat It
      Why are so many unions so corrupt? Because laws grant them a monopoly on people's jobs...
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