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Author:
Murray N. Rothbard
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The Sherman Act outlawed restraint of trade . The Clayton Act added to that. Anti-Trust hysteria came in the 1940-50s. Whatever you did would be considered monopolistic. The charges didn’t come from consumers, they came from whining competitors. It was government-enforced blackmail. The US leather industry was put out of business. The corn starch