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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The breaking up of ‘trusts’ or industrial combinations; the activities of a trust-buster.
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Examples
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Bottom line: If you want to end liberal media bias, trust-busting won't work.
Lovecraft, Sutter, and the Media, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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This is not a dualism between socialism and free market, but the goal of allowing capitalism to prosper is an old American debate going back to the trust-busting Teddy Roosevelt.
Paul Ruth: To Give or Not to Give, Is That Really the Question? Paul Ruth 2011
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There is a case for breaking up our very biggest banks, especially Lloyds, in a British trust-busting moment – I make it in my book Them and Us – and limiting their speculative proclivities along American lines.
City reform has got off to a good start. Now for some real action Will Hutton 2010
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This is not a dualism between socialism and free market, but the goal of allowing capitalism to prosper is an old American debate going back to the trust-busting Teddy Roosevelt.
Paul Ruth: To Give or Not to Give, Is That Really the Question? Paul Ruth 2011
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I came of age during (but did not fight in) Vietnam, the great trust-busting event of its day.
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Would the world really suffer if we did some heavy financial industry trust-busting?
Les Leopold: Why Do We Save Billionaires, but Not Teachers? 2010
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While trust-busting the telecom oligarchy would be exceedingly difficult, engineering ways to enhance information for consumers for more informed choices is not.
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Obama was clearly not pushing very hard to be FDR or even his trust-busting relative Teddy Roosevelt.
Obama’s Old Deal 2010
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I came of age during (but did not fight in) Vietnam, the great trust-busting event of its day.
Trust No One 2010
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Would the world really suffer if we did some heavy financial industry trust-busting?
Les Leopold: Why Do We Save Billionaires, but Not Teachers? 2010
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