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by slededit 2782 days ago
Strange you ignored the greatest monopoly of all time, Rockefeller's Standard Oil. Despite getting split up in 1911, its successor Exxon is the largest non-government owned oil company in the world.
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Wouldn’t have been broken up under modern American antitrust law. Prices declined consistently and quality rose as they crushed their competitors through superior expertise, quality control, research and development and economies of scale.