Really? Where? In the Golden Age, there were three car companies in the U.S. market; now there are, what, ten? Steel was dominated by U.S. Steel - now we have minimills and imports. In computers, there was once IBM - now there are scores of computer makers. Oil was once priced by the Texas Railroad Commission, then OPEC - now it's priced by futures traders. Airfares were once regulated - now they're a mess (the big guys would like to be an oligopoly, but new entrants keep frustrating that). Doug"
Another example is the supermarket shelf, which is an absolute riot of choice; fifty six brands of Raisin Brain and three hundred variants of mustard.
--------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what you’re looking for faster. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <../attachments/20040303/23956f00/attachment.htm>