Word: anti-trust
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While Carter advocates stricter enforcement of anti-trust laws, even if they were rigorously applied, the American economy would still be dominated by oligopolies. And as the chairman of Carter's own Council of Economic Advisers, Charles Schultze, noted in his 1959 study Recent Inflation in the United States, when the structure of the market is such that prices rise in response to greater demand, but do not fall when demand declines, the result will be an increase in average costs, hence a rising inflation rate. As consolidation of the market has quickened in the last several years (there were...
Restrictions of the free market are anathema to the libertarians, who oppose anti-trust laws and regulatory agencies. However, Cosmides emphasized that she would support taking wealth away from corporations that have "made fortunes by sleeping with government...
...some chance he wins Tuesday, Weld promises to increase the Attorney General's involvement in anti-trust matters. Also, Weld opposes cutting government subsidies for abortions, quoting the Supreme Court's ruling on the legality of abortions...
...allegations are accurate, the banks could be charged with price fixing violations under the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, the official said...
...demonstration, the administration granted students a five-minute speech after the ceremonies. After the speech Dean Allison said that Mark Smith '72-4 had only been allowed to speak because Sen. Kennedy invited him to, not because the University believed it was the right thing to do. Like good anti-trust attorneys, the administration is forever wary of establishing dangerous precedents...