Buying real estate and driving other players into bankruptcy— that's how the world-famous board game Monopoly works.

Wall Street Journal reporter Joshua Mitchell explains. Private lenders want a piece of the $100 billion student loans business, of which the government currently has a near monopoly. Home Browse ...

In what other industries do we think customers are better off being forced to pay for a poorly run monopoly?

Ultimately, though, Wall Street and other big-money investors ... a research associate with the anti-monopoly think tank Open Markets Institute, told Insider. "It's geared to favor the big over ...