Do you remember learning in grammar school about monopolies and how they were bad for America? .
We learned how the government broke up Big Oil and Big Steel. How legislation was passed to stop monopolies from forming. I certainly do recall learning about the Sherman Act (1890), Louis Brandeis, plus Teddy Roosevelt (both from school and my grandpa). Not to mention Senator Estes Kefauver and his Anti-merger Act.
Continue reading Competition? Yeah, that’s a crock!
Oh, Roy, not another article about the 1%. Well, yes, this is just that. How can you not discuss this teeny group that owns 1/2 of the wealth that obtains in the world? Read that again. 1% of the population owns 50% of the wealth.
Continue reading Wanna get rich- quick?
I have written (here’s one from more than 2 years ago) about this sort of issue before. While I have mixed emotions, I don’t want insurance companies to purchase (or otherwise acquire) physician practices. I am not sure I want hospitals systems to acquire docs, either, but it seems that the courts are coming around to my point of view, too.
Continue reading The first of many? Or just a stretch too far?