The dangers of monopolies and trusts have long been clear. A company or an allied group that controls most sales of a good or service can use that power to set prices at an arbitrarily high level.

You hear it claimed relatively often today that low wage employers have monopsony power. For example, this is a sometimes cited explanation for the claim that there is no disemployment effect of the ...

Julie Young is an experienced financial writer and editor. She specializes in financial analysis in capital planning and investment management. Investopedia / Mira Norian A monopsony features a single ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - If U.S. antitrust enforcers decide to challenge the proposed $45 billion merger of Comcast Corp and Time Warner Cable Inc, it may be because of an idea with a funny-sounding ...

Public Service Company of Colorado’s (PSCo) recently approved “Clean Energy Plan” will retire two coal plants and replace them with “shockingly” cheap new wind and solar projects after receiving 430 ...

This article first appeared in the Planet Money newsletter. You can sign up here. This is Part 2 of the Planet Money newsletter's series on "monopsony power." The first story centered on the labor ...

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Who Wants To Play Monopsony? This week, a US judge blocked a merger between Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster, two ...