I relatively recently read a biography on John D. Rockefeller and this reminds me of some of the things Standard Oil did with rail companies to gain a market ad

I relatively recently read a biography on John D. Rockefeller and this reminds me of some of the things Standard Oil did with rail companies to gain a market advantage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Oil#Monopoly_charges_and_antitrust_legislation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Oil#Monopoly_charges_... Rabbithole indeed. Here's notes from a meeting of the HoR Judiciary Committee in 1999, "ANTITRUST ASPECTS OF THE OCEAN SHIPPING REFORM ACT OF 1998": http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/judiciary/hju62447.000/hju62447_0f.htm http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/judiciary/hju62447.000/... TIL that ocean carriers have apparently been exempt from antitrust laws since ~1916.