Marc Levinson

On the 1870s skirmish between John D. Rockefeller and the upstart competitors who built the country’s first long-distance oil pipeline.

Monopolies across the grocery supply chain squeeze consumers and small-business owners alike. Big Data will only entrench those dynamics further.

Rail deregulation led to consolidation, price-gouging, and a variant of just-in-time unloading that left no slack in the system.