Look at some companies that have a monopolistic place in the marketplace and decide whether it's a good idea to invest in them. The list is populated with some big names.

“The best of all monopoly profits is a quiet life,” observed the late British economist and Nobel laureate Sir John Hicks. But there’s no quiet life in artificial intelligence. When Chinese startup ...

The project party does not get any other profit apart from the fund management fees. All investors have to publicly buy tokens in order to obtain the equity.

With its search monopoly, Google charged more for text-search ... before Alphabet saw any loss of profit. Even a 60% loss of ...

“Apple has marked up its iCloud prices to the point where the service is generating almost pure profit. Apple's ability to sustain these prices is a testament to its monopoly power,” the ...

The differences between monopoly and competition go further than just profits, Thiel argues. In a super competitive market where you're not that different from your competitors, you have no choice ...