trust-busting
Breaking corporate giants
Trust-busting is government action to break up monopolies or large corporate combinations that suppress competition.
The term dates to the early 1900s, when President Theodore Roosevelt pursued antitrust cases against railroad and oil giants.
A trust-buster is someone who advocates or carries out such enforcement: The attorney general positioned herself as a trust-buster.
Twenty-sixth American president
- Progressive EraUS social reform period
- Standard OilHistoric petroleum monopoly
- robber baronsExploitative nineteenth-century capitalists
- muckrakersScandal-exposing reporters
Rockefeller · J.P. Morgan · Taft · gilded age · Carnegie · monopolist · holding company · reform movement
One seller, no substitutes
- regulationOfficial rules governing conduct
- breakupRomantic relationship's termination
- cartelPrice-fixing coalition
- competitionStruggle for supremacy
enforcement · Clayton Act · market dominance · price-fixing · restraint of trade · deregulation · consumer protection · market concentration
Dominant web search provider
- AmazonGreek warrior women
- FacebookDominant social media platform
- AppleCupertino tech giant
- MicrosoftRedmond technology corporation
market power · FTC · DOJ · acquisitions · digital markets · app store · anticompetitive · surveillance capitalism
Teddy Roosevelt
Twenty-sixth American president
- Progressive EraUS social reform period
- Standard OilHistoric petroleum monopoly
- robber baronsExploitative nineteenth-century capitalists
muckrakers · Rockefeller · J.P. Morgan · Taft · gilded age · Carnegie · monopolist · holding company · reform movement · populism
monopoly
One seller, no substitutes
- regulationOfficial rules governing conduct
- breakupRomantic relationship's termination
- cartelPrice-fixing coalition
competition · enforcement · Clayton Act · market dominance · price-fixing · restraint of trade · deregulation · consumer protection · market concentration · collusion
Dominant web search provider
Microsoft · market power · FTC · DOJ · acquisitions · digital markets · app store · anticompetitive · surveillance capitalism · network effects
- Progressive EraTheodore Roosevelt, progressivism, Woodrow Wilson, Teddy Roosevelt, muckrakers
- antitrustantitrust, price fixing, cartel, collusion, antitrust laws
- policiespolicy, act, code of conduct, workplace policies, public policy
- monopolymonopoly, monopolization, market power, market dominance, market concentration
trust-bustinglaissez-faire
Noninterference in commerce
corporate consolidation · deregulation · market concentration · non-intervention · crony capitalism
trust-bustingtrust-building
Establishing mutual confidence
conglomeration · corporate merger · monopolization · market consolidation · corporate consolidation