[lbo-talk] Bush shakes down steel industry as he prepares to screw it

Eubulides paraconsistent at comcast.net
Tue Dec 2 21:30:42 PST 2003


----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Perelman" <michael at ecst.csuchico.edu>


> Does anyone believe this? The steel industry owed its structure to the
> absence of antitrust. Accustomed to protection via location rather than
> tarrifs, modernization was nonexistant. The mills near where I lived
were
> build between 1880 and 1917, without modernization.

===========================

Didn't they have to fight like hell to roll back anti-trust, even after 1920?

They're still trying to roll back a-t:

http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/jan2002/nf20020124_9747.htm



More information about the lbo-talk mailing list