Blogs1 - 10 of 45 recent posts for tag:oligopoly
04
Jul
2009
It’s that simple  

6 hours ago by Abe N. Margallo

While summing up the thesis of World Bank economist Alessandro Magnoli Bocchi in “ Rising Growth, Declining Investment: The Puzzle of the Philippines,” Cocoy has tried to explain the puzzle in his own words: The answer according to the same policy paper (of Bocchi) is that while foreign direct inves ...

Filipino Voices - filipinovoices.com · Rank: 3,165 · 197 references

03
Jul
2009
$2.3 Billion Still NOT Enough?  

1 day ago by admin

Oh – No! Not again! Why can’t we just all get along? Allegations of price fixing ? I remember something about that from Economics 101. Oligopoly come to mind? Thought so…Many serious chocolate fans may have been over paying too much for too long. Or that’s what a few of the Government (G-Men) have t ...

Candy Memories - bellamiacandy.com/BellaBlog

02
Jul
2009
Untitled  

2 days ago by Procurement

Contract Lesson: The Privity of Contract Rule states that if you aren't a party to a contract, eg: a third party, than you cannot enforce any terms under the contract. There are exceptions such as those provided by the Contract (Rights of Third Parties) Act. Negotiation Lesson: It is unlikely you wo ...

Daily Procurement Lesson - procurementcourse.com

29
Jun
2009
How the Public Plan Crowds Out the Market  

5 days ago by wallace

Public-plan proponents have feigned ignorance of how such an option would crowd out the public market. The answer is simple: a public plan would be a political, not a market, entity. Its justification is premised on a belief that the insurance market is not competitive and that insurers price oligop ...

thelobbyist - thelobbyist.net · Rank: 104,585 · 1 reference

16
Jun
2009
Obama’s Strategy towards Communist Health Care  

18 days ago by Rat

We have to decouple the relationship of health insurance to employment. That is the beginning of all ills in the system. jbranstetter04

RatTube - rattube.com · Rank: 53,358 · 4 references

01
Jun
2009
New clearing venture gets big backers, big foes  

32 days ago by Before You Invest

CME Group Inc. and Citadel Investment Group have signed five prominent money managers to their fledgling credit-swap default joint venture. But the launch of the business — targeting a $29-trillion market — is being thwarted by an “oligopoly” of banks that want to keep business at a rival clearingho ...

Before You Invest Your Money - before-you-invest.com · 2 references

28
May
2009
Monopoly: Private Is Better than Public  

37 days ago by Thomas

In this discursive post, I use the economic concept of perfect competition as a starting point from which to defend monopoly and to expose the folly and futility of governmental intervention in markets. PERFECT COMPETITION AS A BOGUS STANDARD I learned, in the standard microeconomics of my college d ...

Politics & Prosperity - politics.imlac.net · 1 reference

19
May
2009
Monkey Business Swinging Through the Wall Street Jungle  

46 days ago by Safe Stocks

Monkey Business Swinging Through the Wall Street Jungle As eager-beaver business school students, Rolfe and Troob garnered job offers as junior associates at the elite Wall Street investment bank Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, lured by dreams of wealth, glamour and power. Readers whose fascination wi ...

New Stocks - newstocksbonds.com

18
May
2009
Q27- Combining Megatrends #1 and #2: the Next Societal Innovations?  

47 days ago by apintalisayon

I introduced trans-societal Megatrend #1 in an earlier blog ( “Q14- Naming Trans-Societal Megatrend #1: towards Yin?”). I summarized Megatrend #1 (see blog “KM and trans-societal megatrend #1″) as: Trans-societal Megatrend #2 (introduced in blog Q26- Information: another Force for Democratization) c ...

Apin Talisayon's Weblog - apintalisayon.wordpress.com · Rank: 182,712 · 11 references

15
May
2009
Wisdom Dawns on the Importance of Market Liquidity  

50 days ago by Ganesh Prasad

I've been crying myself hoarse for years about the need for liquid (i.e., competitive) markets. A free market does not mean a laissez-faire market. It means a market that is guaranteed to be liquid, with plenty of buyers and sellers, and with no player large enough to influence prices through its ac ...

Golf Charlie Papa - golfcharliepapa.blogspot.com · 5 references

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