John Steele Gordon Quotes
Monopolies, whether private or governmental, are always abused by those who hold them.
John Steele Gordon, Economic Historian & Commentator, Congressional Staff Assistant, Hamilton’s Blessing, 1997
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One irony that some critics of Murdoch’s enterprises make is that despite his personal views about monopoly his businesses try to attain and maintain monopoly status whenever it can.
This is an interesting quotation because it shows that utilities and monopolies using their power and money to avoid effective pro consumer regulation is nothing new and was ongoing as soon as there were government granted monopolies that were supposed to be regulated.
This volume roughly is to Islam what the Gospels are to Christianity. To most Muslims The Sunnah is a collection of holy material on the life of Mohammed. It is not of the force or importance as the Koran, but it is revered.
At the time, there was generally only a single newspaper in an area in New Zealand.
She was then the European Commissioner for Competition
John Steele Gordon is an American writer who specializes in the history of business and finance. Born and raised in New York City, he graduated from Vanderbilt University. After spending some time in publishing, he left to travel, driving from England to India and back and from New York to Tierra del Fuego, returning as far as Rio de Janeiro. His first book was a how-to book on how to do this type of overland traveling. After working in politics for a few years as a press secretary for two congressmen, he wrote his first book on financial history, The Scarlet Woman of Wall Street (1988), a history of Wall Street in the 1860s. His history of the national debt, Hamilton's Blessing, was published in 1997 (2nd edition, 2010). In 2004 he published a history of the American economy, An Empire of Wealth. He has also written on technological history, including A Thread Across the Ocean, the story of laying the Atlantic cable in the mid-19th century, and Washington's Monument, a history of the monument and obelisks in general. John Steele Gordon wrote the Business of America column for American Heritage magazine for 15 years and The Long View column for Barron's for ten years. He currently writes a column on banking history for the ABA banking journal. His op-eds and book reviews appear frequently in the Wall Street Journal and elsewhere. In 2019, Mr. Gordon wrote on global warming from a skeptical point of view for Commentary (magazine).
