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To: You are here; Alan Chapman
You can't engage in honest debate without name-calling. You've got nothing.
If you really believe that, I'd say it's more like he's getting the response you earned.

Who gives a rat's patoot what either of you think?

A market characterized by only one supplier without competition is the fundamental definition of a monopoly. Regardless of any effort (or no effort) by that entity to control the market, the monopoly still exists. There is no choice in the market.

Your adolescent linguistic gymnastics to come up with multiple interpretations of the word "is" is extremely boring.

46 posted on 06/21/2002 8:23:31 AM PDT by Willie Green
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To: Willie Green
A market characterized by only one supplier without competition is the fundamental definition of a monopoly.

If competition is prevented from entering the market because of regulatory barriers put in place by government then a monopoly exists. But, an absence of competition, all by itself, does not constitute a monopoly.

Hypothetical situation: suppose the risks associated with a particular product or service are so extreme that only one company is willing to provide the product or service to consumers. Does the company have a monopoly? No. Why? Because there is nothing stopping other companies from competing.

A monopoly cannot exist in a free-market economy.

Who gives a rat's patoot what either of you think? Your adolescent linguistic gymnastics to come up with multiple interpretations of the word "is" is extremely boring.

None of that is an argument. Again, you seem unable to engage in civil discourse without resorting to name-calling.

57 posted on 06/21/2002 1:33:20 PM PDT by Alan Chapman
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