In Economics, monopoly exists when a specific individual or enterprise has sufficient control over a particular product or service to determine significantly the terms on which other individuals shall have access to it. Monopolies are thus characterized by a lack of economic competition for the good or service that they provide and a lack of viable substitute goods. Alternatively , it may be used as a verb or adjective to refer to the process by which a firm gains persistently greater market share than what is expected under perfect competition. The latter usage of the term is invoked in the theory of monopolistic competition.

It is often argued that monopolies tend to become less efficient and innovative over time, becoming "complacent giants", because they do not have to be efficient or innovative to compete in the marketplace. Sometimes this very loss of efficiency can raise a potential competitor's value enough to overcome market entry barriers, or provide incentive for research and investment into new alternatives. The theory of contestable markets argues that in some circumstances monopolies are forced to behave as if there were competition because of the risk of losing their monopoly to new entrants. This is likely to happen where a market's barriers to entry are low. It might also be because of the availability in the longer term of substitutes in other markets. For example, a canal monopoly, while worth a great deal in the late eighteenth century United Kingdom,was worth much less in the late nineteenth century because of the introduction of railways as a substitute.

Some argue that it can be good to allow a firm to attempt to monopolize a market, since practices such as dumping can benefit consumers in the short term; and once the firm grows too big, it can be dealt with via regulation. When monopolies are not broken through the open market, often a government will step in, either to regulate the monopoly, turn it into a publicly owned monopoly, or forcibly break it up (see Antitrust law). Public utilities, often being natural monopolies and less susceptible to efficient breakup, are often strongly regulated or publicly owned. AT&T and Standard Oil are debatable examples of the breakup of a private monopoly. When AT&T was broken up into the "Baby Bell" components, MCI, Sprint, and other companies were able to compete effectively in the long distance phone market and began to take phone traffic from the less efficient AT&T.

Business Project

Business Cover Letter
(Business Proposal Project Part 1)


To: Loan Officer, Lockwood National Financial Services
From: “Bitch’in Bakery” (A Subsidiary of Fetch Industries)
Date: 18 April 2008
Subject: Small Business Loan (Start-up Financing)



Dear Mr. Lockwood,

We, the owners of Bitch’in Bakery in conjunction with Fetch Industries respectfully request a small business loan in the amount of One-Hundred Thousand dollars. We currently have an investment of approximately One Hundred and Eighty Thousand dollars in securing our business location, purchasing bakery equipment, and establishing pay roll and accounting services. We plan to use the additional start up funds for initial bakery stock items, to set up vender accounts and to provide business capital for insurance and advertising.
We believe, with the help of LNFS, along with our experience and proven success with other entities within the Fetch Family of Corporations, that we can be both profitable and successful. Lockwood National has a long history of customer satisfaction as well as competitive rates. For these reasons we have chosen to solicit our loan requirements with your bank.
Thank you for your time and consideration, concerning this request for additional business assets.
Very Sincerely,

Crystal Smith and Hillary Rivera
Co-proprietors, Bitch’in Bakery
17623 Bear Valley Road Suite D
Apple Valley, Ca 92308
Bus. (760) 247-CAKE (2253)

Competition

Two businesses I believe to be in prefect Competition with eachother would be Homedepot and Lows. They are both successful home improvment warehouses. I reason i think that they are i competition with eachother is because right after they built a Lows on Aple Valley Rd. they built an Homedepot right across the street. The owners of Homedepot saw how much profit Lows was getting being the only home improvment warehouse in Apple Valley so they decided to build there aslo. The postiveness of having two Competing businesses right next to eachother is that if one raises there prices you can go to the other store. Another reason is if one is out supply of somethinfg you can go the other store.

The best way to advertise our school and to increase its population would be to advertise our Athletics and our Academics programs. I think that out of the high desert AVC students are better trained Academically. We rank pretty high up Ahletically also. If we were able to get more students to come to our school then everything would go up, the Campus would grow,the staff would increase, and sports would be even bigger. So i think that in order to increase AVC's population we should just keep Advertising Athletics and Academics.

Paraphrazing

Whether it is right or wrong to Paraphraze an auther without giving credit to that person? It a case where someone is struggleing with idea of parphazing or cheating in order to get into there dream college, it would be in the students best intrests of courese not to do so. The way i look at it is that if its that imporant to you for you to get into your dream college then why put yourself at risk of loosing that dream by doing something as stupid as cheating. I mean i know when the pressures on and you really need that little something extra to boost your chances of getting what you want, its tempting to steal someone elses work, but that doesnt meake it right, its still cheating. Personally I think that just giving credit to the person how diserves it, is a whole lot easier.

Businesses that serve Costumers best

The most important thing Businesses can do Economicly is satify their Costomers. If their Costomers aren't satisfied then their business will start to rapidly decrease. When i think of businesses that do a good job at satisfy their Costomers i think of Busninesses like Utility Providers and Shipping Providers.

One of the best Utility Providers i think is Southern California Edison. If it werent for places like Edison we wouldnt have electricity. Southern California Edison (SCE) is the largest electric utility in California, serving more than 13 million people in a 50,000 square-mile area of central, coastal and Southern California, excluding the City of Los Angeles and certain other cities. Based in Rosemead, California, the utility has been providing electric service in the region for more than 120 years. SCE's service territory includes more 180 cities. During a Power loss in a storm, SCE makes sure that we arent without it for every long, they immediatly do what they can to turn our power back on.

When it comes to good Shipping Providers I think of UPS and FedEx. The UPS Store is committed to providing world-class customer service to our retail customers. They are committed to providing personalized and professional solutions while supporting our core values. FedEx is also a great shipping provider, it will ship packages to anywhere all over the world and at a really reasonable price.

Economic Goals

Having Economic Goals is something every one has. Whether its finding a passion for a thing and putting all you have into it in order to become the best or just making hard decisions and doing what you can in order to survive and support your family.

My Economic Goals consist of first Graduating High School and getting my diploma. That is one of the most important things i can do in life cause without a diploma it will definately effect and decrease my chances of getting a job ever. Another Economic Goal that i have is to go to college and get my degree in what ever it is that i decide to do with my life. This will increase my chances ever more for getting a jod and i will end up having a much better job than if i were to just have a high school diploma. Last my economic goal is to find a job that i am very passionate about and that will support my family. If i am not enjoying my job than to me, i failed myself because all my hard work in school was so that i could be able to do somethig i enjoy doing. So eveyone has to make economic goals for themselves, whether or not they succeed is really up to them.

Business Success

The Business i think will make the most significant advancment in the next year is Apple Inc. Through the decades Apple Inc. has come out with the iMac, ipod, and the iPhone, all of which have been a hudge success for the business.

The iMac is an "all-in-one" desktop Macintosh computer designed and built by Apple Inc. It has been a large part of Apple's consumer desktop offerings since its introduction in 1998, and has evolved through three distinct forms. In its original form, the G3, the iMac was egg-shaped with a CRT monitor, mainly enclosed by colored, translucent plastic. The second major revision, the G4, moved to a design of a hemispherical base containing all the main components and an LCD monitor on a freely-moving arm attached to the top of the base. The iMac G5 and the Intel iMac placed all the components immediately behind the monitor, creating a slim design which tilts only up and down on a simple metal base. The current iMac shares the same form as the previous models, but is now thinner and uses aluminum and glass for its case.

The iPod is a brand of portable media players designed and marketed by Apple and launched on October 23, 2001. The line-up currently consists of the hard drive-based flagship iPod classic, the high-end touchscreen iPod touch, the mid-level video-capable iPod nano, and the entry-level screenless iPod shuffle. Former products include the compact iPod nano and the high-end spin-off iPod photo. iPod classic models store media on an internal hard drive, while all other models use flash memory to enable their smaller size. As with many other digital music players, iPods, excluding the iPod Touch, can also serve as external data storage devices.

Apple's iTunes software is used to transfer music to the devices. As a jukebox application, iTunes stores a music library on the user's computer and can play, burn, and rip music from a CD. It also transfers photos, videos, games, and calendars to those iPod models that support them. Apple focused its development on the iPod's unique user interface and its ease of use, rather than on technical capability. As of October 2007, the iPod had sold over 119 million units worldwide making it the best-selling digital audio player series in history.


Following the success of iPod, Apple announced the iPhone in January 2007. The iPhone is a multimedia, Internet-enabled mobile phone designed and marketed by Apple Inc. It has a multi-touch screen with virtual keyboard and buttons. The iPhone's functions include those of a camera phone and a portable media player ("iPod"), in addition to text messaging and visual voicemail. It also offers Internet services including e-mail, web browsing, and local Wi-Fi connectivity. It is a quad-band mobile phone that uses the GSM standard, and hence has international capability. It supports the Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution (EDGE) data technology.

Business Leader

I think that Bill Gates is the most successful business leader in the United States today. He is an American entrepreneur, software executive, philanthropist and chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen. During his career at Microsoft he has held the positions of CEO and chief software architect, and he remains the largest individual shareholder with more than 9% of the common stock.

Gates is one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the personal computer revolution. Although he is widely admired, his business tactics have been criticized as anti-competitive and in some instances ruled as such in court. Since amassing his fortune, Gates has pursued a number of philanthropic endeavors, donating large amounts of money to various charitable organizations and scientific research programs through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, established in 2000.

His family was wealthy; his father was a prominent lawyer, his mother served on the board of directors for First Interstate Bank and the United Way, and her father, J. W. Maxwell, was a national bank president. Gates excelled through elementary school in math and English. When he was thirteen he enrolled at a middle school named Lakeside school. It is one of the best schools in Seattle. When he was in eighth grade, some moms did a yard sale to buy a computer for the school, Gates was so interested that he convinced the math teacher to let him go work on the computer instead of him taking math class. He got a 1590 on his SAT's which then lead him to a school named Harvard. After His college life he worked with a man named Paul Allen and they invented Microsoft. Microsoft is a very big company and it is continually growing. It started with just Bill Gates and Paul Allen but now it is employing over 30,000 people. Some people discouraged him not to start is own company because it is very difficult to make money but he proved them wrong and now is the richest man in the world.