The Observer: Perilous times?

The Observer: Perilous times?

History tells us that one of the few times somebody actually successfully brought corporate monopolies to heel, was President Teddy Roosevelt. At the turn of the 19th to the 20th century, the ol’ Roughrider rode roughshod over John D. Rockefeller in the Standard Oil antitrust case that defined — for a while anyway — just how big and powerful one company should be. Since then, anti-trust action has become a quaint, nearly extinct governmental pow…