Comments on: Monopolies and Oligopolies do not a Free Market Make

By: When Companies Can Treat You Like an ATM, Many Will Do So » Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog

Mon, 29 Aug 2011 04:04:25 +0000

[...] combination of companies 1) not being customer focused, 2) exploiting short term thinking, 3) very ologopolist markets (very little competition). So when you are looking at this from the view of providing the best [...]

By: Economic Consequences Flow from Failing to Follow Real Capitalist Model and Living Beyond Our Means at Curious Cat Investing and Economics Blog

Wed, 10 Aug 2011 13:42:03 +0000

[...] with economic conditions in the USA and Europe has at its core two main elements. First the anti-capitalist concentration of power in a few monopolistic and oligopolistic corporations (along with the support and encouragement of governments and the governments failure to regulate [...]

By: Extremely Poor Broadband for the USA at Curious Cat Investing and Economics Blog

Extremely Poor Broadband for the USA at Curious Cat Investing and Economics Blog — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 13:49:19 +0000

[...] leading to this state for broadband say they support “free markets.” In actuality, they support anti-competitive practices by extremely large companies (oligopolistic behavior). Free market theory (the original form) requires that no individual company can dictate to the [...]

By: Banks Hoping they Paid Politicians Enough to Protect Billions in Excessive Fees at Curious Cat Economics Blog

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 02:55:44 +0000

“Invisible charges imposed by a financial cartel is not my idea of a free market…”

By: Have We Lost Our Capitalist Heritage? at Curious Cat Investing and Economics Blog

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:18:31 +0000

[...] say capitalism did exist. It is true we have corporations using their power (political power and market power [oligopolies, monopolies]) to serve their interests. This would not surprise Adam Smith at all, from the Wealth of Nations: [...]

By: Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog » Net Neutrality, Policy, Economics and Intelligent Engineering

Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:02:06 +0000

If ISPs don’t want to be in the business they should be in – providing internet connectivity. Fine, get out of that business and go into the business they want to be in. But don’t try to take control of a natural monopoly and then use that control to extort money from those that rely on the natural monopoly…

By: Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog » How Private Equity Strangled Mervyns

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:06:00 +0000

[...] do not like the actions of many in “private equity.” I am a big fan of capitalism. I just object to those that unjustly take from the other stakeholders involved. It is not the [...]

By: Why America Needs an Economic Strategy at Curious Cat Investing and Economics Blog

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 03:25:50 +0000

[...] as a share of GDP has actually declined, while it has risen in many other countries. … A creeping relaxation of antitrust enforcement has allowed mergers to dominate markets. Ironically, these mergers are often justified by [...]

By: Greenspan Says He Was Wrong On Regulation at Curious Cat Investing and Economics Blog

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:38:57 +0000

[...] to people that have thought enough to have an opinion on the benefits of free markets. The dangers of monopolies and business people conspiring to extract benefit (for those in the cartel, trust, [...]

By: CuriousCat: Canadaian Banks Avoid Failures Common Elsewhere

CuriousCat: Canadaian Banks Avoid Failures Common Elsewhere — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:45:39 +0000

“High banking standards have kept Canada’s financial institutions afloat and out of the kind of trouble that has sunk many of their international peers, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said Wednesday…”