If you have cable TV, use electricity, have running water in your home or purchase a prescription drug that is not a generic, then you are interacting in the marketplace with a monopolist. Focus on one area in your life where you purchase a good or service from a company that holds monopoly or near monopoly control over the supply. Dig through the news to find a story about that product. What's going on today that is impacting your life?
IN THE NEWS:
Select a news story from a Internet news organizations.
- Write a 3 to 5 paragraph summary of the news story and explain how it relates to the material you learned this week.
•Do not copy and paste directly from the article except for small quotes that help explain your summary. Use quotations marks for anything that is directly from the news story.
•Include the EXACT URL that can be clicked to directly retrieve the news story you selected at the end of your paper for citation purposes. NOTE: This is NOT the link to the news organization. The URL must retrieve the actual news story.
Be sure to reference all sources using APA format.