So, what’s the point of “free enterprise” if the most powerful one buys out all the others? Do consumers really get the bets price? Ultimately, who pays for “free enterprise”? - Jinx
In the US and EU, among other places, antitrust laws regulate mergers among competitors. Where the antitrust regulators determine that a particular merger will have an anti-competitive impact, they can prohibit it or impose conditions to lessen the impact on competition.