November 19, 2001 Why cAntitrust Microsoft Microsoft has been in the sights of the US Government for almost eleven years now. According to a Wired News timeline way back in 1990 the Federal Trade Commission began to investigate a possible conspiracy between IBM and Microsoft. After that Microsof...

Preference for a National Pastime: An Examination of Baseball's Antitrust Exemption, Its Destruction of Healthy Competition, and the Inherent Need for a Competitive Market Over the past century, baseball has become affectionately known as the "National Pastime" in the United States. As this titl...

The U.S and the world economy like everything else have its ups and downs. The government plays a crucial role in deciding how the economy will set over time. An Economist by the name of John Maynard Keynes felt that if either inflation or unemployment got out of hand, the government could adjus...

Company/ Industry overview Dell Incorporated was founded in Round Rock Texas by Michael Dell in 1984 with just 1000 dollars and an innovative idea: sell computer systems directly to customers and illuminate the middle man. Today, Michael Dell is the longest tenured CEO in the computer industry. ...

There are four major types of markets. They are: Pure Competition: Large number of buyers and sellers trading a standardized product (corn, wheat); Pure Monopoly: One seller, firm is the industry; Monopolistic Competition: Large number of buyers, large number of sellers each selling a similar but s...