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Economists have long observed that monopolists encourage competition on their platform only up to a point, said Vanderbilt antitrust professor Rebecca Haw Allensworth.
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Deirdre Bosa,jasmine Wu, CNBC, 31 Mar. 2026
The antitrust exemption — an anomalous 1922 Supreme Court decision allowing MLB and its teams to behave as monopolists in ways most other U.S. businesses cannot — has been a favorite target not of presidents, but of Congress.
—Evan Drellich, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2026
To define the contours of a market, the courts rely on a hypothetical monopolist test.
—Hal Singer, Fortune, 7 Feb. 2026
Meanwhile, with no respect for copyright or intellectual property, Mark Zuckerberg and the Google monopolists Larry Page and Sergey Brin have cornered the advertising market and decimated the newspaper and magazine business.
—John R. MacArthur, Air Mail, 8 Nov. 2025
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Deirdre Bosa,jasmine Wu, CNBC, 31 Mar. 2026
The antitrust exemption — an anomalous 1922 Supreme Court decision allowing MLB and its teams to behave as monopolists in ways most other U.S. businesses cannot — has been a favorite target not of presidents, but of Congress.
—Evan Drellich, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2026
To define the contours of a market, the courts rely on a hypothetical monopolist test.
—Hal Singer, Fortune, 7 Feb. 2026
Meanwhile, with no respect for copyright or intellectual property, Mark Zuckerberg and the Google monopolists Larry Page and Sergey Brin have cornered the advertising market and decimated the newspaper and magazine business.
—John R. MacArthur, Air Mail, 8 Nov. 2025
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“Monopolist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/monopolist. Accessed 28 Apr. 2026.
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