Bullshit, monopolies exist because of the regulation.
I'm afraid sir, that your ingonorance is showing.
Is it?
Pick up any college (hell, high school) economics textbook.
Yes, why don't we try anyone from the Austrian or Chicago Schools, or have you not gotten that far in your Econ 101 textbook? I'll even give you a couple to start with: Friedrich A. Hayek, Ludwig von Mises, Carl Menger, Adam Smith, Murray Rothbard, Milton Friedman, Alan Greenspan. You also might try Frederic Bastiat, Ayn Rand. Try reading some of the studies done by the CATO Institute No, you can keep your Western Illinois school of voodoo economics to yourself.
Certain types of businesses are inheritly advantagious to monopolies. The electric company is the classic example-
There are very few natural monopolies. Few to none. The sewer system or local access roads are better examples than electricity -- all electricity requires is right-of-way access, it is not scarce on property like roads. Copper/fiber is already run by three separate entities (phone, cable, electric) to the home and there is evidence to show that it came be made much for free (see fiber-running in Helsinki). Right-of-way is the source of the monopoly. Problem is government will assume it is a natural monopoly and create a coercive one. Take telephony for example, which is so blatantly obvious today that it is not a natural monopoly -- yet try getting dry copper circuits and providing dial-tone and see the mess of regulation you run into.
Certain types of businesses are suited to certain types of competition, and, unregulated, monopolies are exactly what you get.
Show me an example of an unregulated coercive monopoly whose source of monopoly power is not ultimately the government. Efficient monopolies (e.g. ALCOA) exist in early markets, but they are not coercive, they cannot prevent competition, they can only be efficient enough that they capital market won't see the returns to justify a second entrant.
This was exactly the situation that occured at the turn of the century and it happened because regulation was non-existant!
I suggest you question the motivation of your sources. We are living in the shadow of socialism and big government, who proclaimed the evils of capitalism and stepped in to save the day. Were they justified? Read what Greenspan thinks turn-of-the-century monopolists and resulting regulation: http://www.ecosystems.net/mgering/antitrust.html Matt PS. Your spelling is as bad as Jim's. One starts to wonder if bad spelling and bad logic go hand in hand.