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On the recordOctober 16, 2017
Extracting monopoly rents isn't viewed by any economist as being legitimate economic behavior, is it?
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Whitehouse emphasizes that monopoly rent extraction is not legitimate economic behavior.

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