Housing Notes: Rockefeller’s lessons for real estate’s gatekeepers
I’ve spilled a lot of digital ink on the topic of monopolistic behavior I’ve observed in the housing market as of late, so I thought I’d look back to the peak Rockefeller era of bad behavior. John D. Rockefeller Sr. was the architect of Standard Oil’s dominance, the person who built the monopoly machine we’re still…
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