Just as once-spurned asset classes can suddenly enter the limelight in real life, so too can every group of Monopoly properties.
Fund managers figure AsiaOne is selling for 65% or so above fair market value because it is backed by the huge, cash-rich, newspaper monopoly, the SPH Group.
Group-buying is not a natural monopoly, yet there is a limit to how many group-buying websites consumers will use.
Dan Silverstone of Portsmouth University, who has interviewed people convicted of firearms offences in north-west London, says that when no single group has a monopoly of violence, more people get shot.
Michael Grisso of the Alliance for Rail Competition, a lobby group, says that monopoly power is the problem.
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In 1555 Czar Ivan the Terrible granted a group of English merchants a monopoly on the trade of furs, timber and cloth, thus establishing the Muscovy Company.
Another rival BSkyB is facing on the broadband front is BT Group, Britain's former telecommunications monopoly, which recently launched a digital TV service called BT Vision to all its broadband customers.
But in a letter to domestic electrical good retailers the Commission has said it was unlikely to find that the Dixons Group was operating a 'scale' monopoly in the sale of warranties as the firm had slightly less than 25% market share.
After thousands of years of political experimentation, it seems pretty clear that some institution is always going to have a monopoly of force, and some human being or group of human beings is going to have the ultimate authority over how that force is used.
In 2001 British tobacco company Gallaher Group bought Austria Tabak, at one time Austria's government-run tobacco monopoly, and decided to shrink the company's museum.
Sirius XM Radio is facing a class action suit filed by a nationwide group of the company subscribers that alleges antitrust law infringement because the company has abused its monopoly position and increased its fees by 30%.
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