From 1932 to 1980 or so the government tried to break up big monopolies to encourage competition Starting with FDR and ending with Reagan? I think that the his

From 1932 to 1980 or so the government tried to break up big monopolies to encourage competition Starting with FDR and ending with Reagan? I think that the history of US antitrust is more complicated. The first round of trust busting (Sherman Act, Standard Oil) was a generation before FDR, and the period you've highlighted had two great monopolies, AT&T and IBM. I agree that the policy had been pretty much hands off between Microsoft and big tech.