Currently, some of the most notable oligopolies in the U.S. are in film and television production, recorded music, wireless carriers, and airlines.

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Retail market structure refers to the number of companies that sell similar or identical products in the same geographical area. An oligopoly describes a small group of companies that collude to raise ...

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Can you say "insuragopoly"? How about "hospigopoly"? Then you better learn, because they describe how the health care system is changing under President Obama's health care reform legislation. An ...

Linde plc is the leader in the oligopolistic industrial gases market. The on-site nature of the business and a low distribution radius form a natural moat for companies operating in the industrial ...

Holman Jenkins’s “Tech Giants Are Less Powerful Than They Seem” (Business World, Feb. 24) on the waning power of the tech giants misses that these “platforms” aren’t companies that sell products and ...