How did J.D. Rockefeller gain a monopoly?
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During the Gilded Age time period, Rockefeller and other business leaders emphasized cost cutting and effciency, vertically integrating their industries to control every aspect of production. With such a network, Rockefeller was able to either buy out or undersell many of his competitors. Later, he established a pool of several compnaies that fixed prices and production quotas. This pool later evolved into the Standard Oil Trust- the first of many trusts that were established among various industries. Standard Oil was like a giant merger of almost company in the industry, virtually quashing all competition. Later, after it was challenged by the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, it changed into a holding company that did more or less the same thing.
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G.W.Bush thought being a CEO of a Company Qualified him, it certainly was not his Military background, Monopoly didn't help him . he needed War games.
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The owner was The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the same government agency that runs the PATH subway trains between NY and NJ, as well as the three airports in the New York Area.\n\nI'm not sure how much money was lost.
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Vanderbilt financed the railroads, so the answer is probably B.\n\nBur Carnegie built the steel mills that made the steel for railroad tracks, and Rockfeller got rich off the coal and oil used to run those plants.\n\nJames B Duke made his fortune selling cigarettes. He also founded Duke University.
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It is impossible to answer this question as then they would be known facts and they don't qualify as a correct answer.\n\nBut if you are asking about not well known facts how about that he was big into real estate. He had tens of thousands of acres of land and had a voracious appetite for acquiring more.
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Your answer would be Vanderbilt, he put together and controlled the "modern day" New York Central railroad during its earlier years in the 19th century (and that would grow to become one of the largest and most profitable railroads during the first half of the 20th century before its downfall and eventual demise in the Penn Central merger of early 1970s).
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someone wants to buy partial ownership of a company, and someone wants to sell partial ownership.  The stock is transferred, and fees are extracted for the service.  Someone eventually wins and someone loses, but the financial institutions make money on the trade no matter what.
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Uncle Moneybags.\n\nOh, wait, that's Monopoly. The correct answer: Abraham Lincoln.
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Monopoly was created before the Great Depression...but to answer your question, I don't know that the value would be different today. It is a board game, and there can only be so much money in the game.
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This one is easy.  When a monopoly occurs it forces other companies/corporations out of business causing any number of people to be unemployed.  Unemployment and lack of knowing another trade leads to an increase in welfare, i.e., competition creates jobs and monopolies reduces jobs.
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It is privately owned, for several domestic and international banks, some of the owner's names are Rockefeller does that ring you a bell? they print money backed up by nothing and charge interest to the govmt! we all end up paying for it (40% of our fed income tax) while the rich gets richer, the funny thing is that it is illegal as per our constitution, and we could buy it back at 450 million to abolish it if we wanted too, unfortunately some guys like John Kennedy tried to eliminated and was shot... you can get more details from a CPA here:\n\nhttp://www.totse.com/en/politics/international_banking_money_laundering/fedbank.html
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John D.Rockefeller founder of Standard oil
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The man who sold the world (unplugged).
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You'll have to provide a few more details...are you referring to the system of bribes to obtain contracts?  Or the system of monopolies?  Or the government tariffs against European goods to protect the higher American wages and to promote the growth of American industry?
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Monopolists function by controlling an entire market.  There are many anti-monopoly laws, but they are not very effective.  Corporations are finding loopholes and ways around them all the time.
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When a company acquires another they get all the brands and trademarks as well.  Texaco was bought out by Chevron, for example, but they still run the Texaco havoline car in Nascar because it has brand loyaty.  Also, sometimes it takes a while to complete an acquistion and merge cultures and compaines.
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Happens often in business.\nAugust Busch III took over the Anhuesr-Busch Company from AB II, who took over from AB I.