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lapfog_1

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Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Mon Sep 4, 2017, 02:09 PM

Sep 2017

are killing competition. Barriers to entry are mostly size related.

Think of huge markets in this country that are serviced primarily by a few huge companies.

Banking. Airlines. Computers. heavy equipment. phone service. Cable service. Movies. Credit. Oil.

The list is long.

The gilded age is back... and we need to break up the monopolies (again)

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Basically every problem in the US economy is because companies have too much power. [View all] Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2017 OP

but repubs love their corps Angry Dragon Sep 2017 #1

M and A lapfog_1 Sep 2017 #2

UNregulated capitalism cannot succeed. elleng Sep 2017 #4

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UNregulated capitalism cannot succeed. elleng Sep 2017 #5

I would say that and race rurallib Sep 2017 #6

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This is why workers should have direct access to the stock market through DRIPs modrepub Sep 2017 #9