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- 1From:Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue BriefsMexican transnational criminal organizations (TCOs) significantly influence drug trafficking in the United States and pose the greatest drug trafficking threat, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's...
- 2From:Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue BriefsFebruary 16, 2021 In December 2020, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and a group of 46 state attorneys general (state AGs) filed separate antitrust lawsuits against Facebook. Both lawsuits challenge the same conduct:...
- 3From:Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue BriefsOn October 20, 2020, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and 11 state attorneys general filed a lawsuit against Google LLC under Section 2 of the Sherman Act (15 U.S.C. [section] 2). The lawsuit alleges that Google...
- 4From:The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (3rd ed.)Pronunciation: (ol-i-gop-uh-lee, oh-li-gop-uh-lee) Control over the production and sale of a product or service by a few companies....
- 5From:International Narcotics Control Strategy ReportI. Summary Mexico's aggressive campaign to combat drugs and confront major drug trafficking organizations (DTOs) continued at an ambitious pace in 2009. The Mexican government reaffirmed its commitment to limit the...
- 6From:The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (3rd ed.)Pronunciation: (kahr-tel) An association in which producers of a similar or identical product try to obtain a monopoly over the sale of the product. The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is a...
- 7From:Mexico's Narco-Insurgency and U.S. Counterdrug PolicySince 2006, Mexico has rapidly climbed the list of potential trouble spots for U.S. policymakers. Public security in that country has deteriorated dramatically of late. Drug-fueled violence has caused thousands of...
- 8From:Mexico's Narco-Insurgency and U.S. Counterdrug PolicySUMMARY On June 30, 2008, President George W. Bush signed into law the Merida Initiative, a 3-year, $1.4 billion counterdrug assistance program for Mexico and Central America. The bulk of this money is destined for...
- 9From:Mexico's Narco-Insurgency and U.S. Counterdrug PolicyTHE WAY FORWARD A thoroughgoing revision of U.S. counterdrug policy is therefore needed. U.S. officials must craft a more comprehensive and coherent strategy than currently exists, one that addresses not just the...
- 10From:AEI Outlook SeriesOnce again, high gasoline prices are in the news. As of this writing, the national average gasoline price per gallon is hovering around $3.50. (1) The public is unhappy with these high gas prices, and politicians are...
- 11From:Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue BriefsSummary Mexico, a major drug producing and transit country, is the main foreign supplier of marijuana and a major supplier of methamphetamine to the United States. Although Mexico accounts for only a small share of...
- 12From:AEI Paper & Studies
Beyond net neutrality: Policies for leadership in the information, computing, and network industries
KEY POINTS * Net neutrality in the US is backfiring against some of the very people it is supposed to help, so we need a policy that gets beyond net neutrality to a framework that resolves disputes, enables... - 13From:AEI Paper & StudiesExecutive Summary For more than 300 years, copyright law and policy have been plagued by recurring debates: are copyrights private property rights, or are they suspect, government-granted monopoly rights? This paper...
- 14From:Encyclopedia of World BiographyBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY Samuel Insull (1859-1938), English-born American entrepreneur, organized a utilities empire in the 1920s valued at over $3 billion. Samuel Insull was born on Nov. 11, 1859, in London. He...
- 15From:Organization and Performance of Cotton Sectors in Africa: Learning from Reform ExperienceThis chapter brings together detailed data from ginning companies, along with farm-level data from the previous chapter, to calculate four additional outcome indicators: one for company performance (an intermediate...
- 16From:Encyclopedia of World BiographyBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY Arthur Vining Davis (1867-1962) was the general manager of the Aluminum Company of America (ALCOA) for more than half a century. He also served as president of the company and as chairman of the...
- 17From:Encyclopedia of World BiographyBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY John Davison Rockefeller (1839-1937), American industrialist and philanthropist, founded the Standard Oil Company, the University of Chicago, and the Rockefeller Foundation. John D. Rockefeller...
- 18From:The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (3rd ed.)The exclusive control by one company of a service or product....
- 19From:AEI Paper & StudiesEditor's note All types of monopoly are not created equal in the US economy. In this study, Barak Richman of Duke University Law School emphasizes that health care providers with market power enjoy substantially more...
- 20From:Encyclopedia of World BiographyBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY Kenneth Colin Irving (1899-1992) was an industrialist who built a cluster of interrelated regional businesses into a massive empire that straddled virtually every aspect of his native New...