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FOXES GUARDING THE HENHOUSE: Yet Another Example of Why Politicians Can’t Be Trusted With Our Money. Less than three months after jockeying for position to stand in front of reporters’ cameras in order to vilify auto executives...
Tags: Washington DC, Congress, Pentagon, John Murtha (D-Pa), Gulfstream, Boeing, John Boehner, John McCain (R-Ariz), Jack Reed (D-RI), Richard Burr (R-NC), Christopher Bond (R.-Mo), John Thune (R-S.D), Claire McCaskill (D-Mo), Monopoly, Barack Obama
When was the last time you played a game of monopoly? It has been years since I have played the board game. The joy one could gain from being one of the last few players dominating the board, fighting for control. On the other hand, a...
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When I landed on Park Place the first time it wasn’t that big of a deal, I had been saving up for a little while because my Marvin Gardens properties had been doing quite well. But after a little bad luck one night when I ended up in jail my luck...
Tags: Stimulus package, monopoly, stimulus, health care, bailout, Small business, corporate, Bonus, fraud, maddoff, goldman sachs, citi group, obama, recesson, Factor, o'rielly
In 1913 Congressman Lindbergh warned that the Federal Reserve System “establishes the most gigantic trust on earth. When the President signs this act, the invisible government by the monetary power will be legitimized. The new law will create...
Tags: federal reserve, monopoly, conspiracy, depression
by Biodun Iginla and Xian Wan, BBC News and the Economist. Mar 18th 2009 | HONG KONG From The Economist print edition CHINA INDICATES THE REAL TARGETS OF ITS ANTI-MONOPOLY LAW: OUTSIDERS AP LAST August, after 14 years of debate, the Chinese...
Tags: BBC NEWS BIODUN IGINLA, CHINA, COCA-COLA, MONOPOLY, XIAN WAN
National Broadband Network and the mixed economy: What kind of monopoly? Even now it does not seem so long ago that a genuine ‘mixed’ economic model prevailed across nations the world wide. In the wake of Depression and...
Tags: natural monopoly, public broadcasters, broadband, productivity, Wide Area Wireless, wireless, infrastructure, National Broadband Network, fibre optic cable, Telstra, communications, telecommunications, Australia, Labor, ALP, liberalism, mixed economy, Keynes, public monopoly, socialism, social democracy, Left, privatisation, monopoly, Optus, rent-seeking, economics, economies of scale, fibre to the node, fibre to the home, Kevin Rudd, Stephen Conroy neoliberalism
Telstra , Australia’s dominant telecommunications group, on Monday reacted with fury after the country’s government excluded it from a plan to build a A$10bn ($6.7bn) nationwide high-speed internet network. The group was disqualified from the national...
Tags: broadband, national broadband network, telecommunications, communications, Telstra, monopoly, broadband network, labor, national broadband, Sol Trujillo
The national broadband network (NBN) is about customer outcomes not Telstra shareholder outcomes. It's about the best way to deliver competitive, accessible, fairly priced, high-speed broadband to as many customers as possible...The Government must stick...
Tags: broadband, communications, monopoly, National Broadband Network, Telstra, left
Officials from the Terria consortium have appeared at a Senate inquiry into the Federal Government's proposed national broadband network. Terria's chairman Michael Egan has told the inquiry he fears Telstra will use the national broadband contract to...
Tags: broadband, national broadband network, australia, monopoly, wireless, Sol Trujillo, Telstra, broadband network, national broadband, federal government
The chief executive of subscription television provider Foxtel, Kim Williams, called for Terria to publicly clarify whether it is seeking a guaranteed monopoly over any new broadband network built in Australia. Foxtel, which is 50 per cent-owned by Telstra,...
Tags: broadband, telstra, telecommunications, communications, monopoly, Foxtel, Terria, Telstra HFC