Skulduggery in Brobdingnagian Eurhythmic

     Noticed the title right? Really complicated, big words right, well wouldn't expect it from this blog in its usual sperrazatura (did it again) that I usually take part in right, but well, its a foreshadowing motif, illustrating that the rest of this post will seem foreign and complicated, probably even boring. Didn't really expect something like that from me right? Well in this post you'll see a lot of things that you won't expect.
     Meet Herbert Dow. Herbert was a pretty accomplished person, for one he invented a way to produce bromine cheaply and founded Dow Chemical. For 36 cents a pound he would sell his product throughout the whole U.S. He ran a good business for a while, but then he realized he could do better, much better. He knew that he couldn't go international because those markets were ravaged with a huge German chemical cartel who sold at 49 cents a pound. It was tacit that neither would infringe on the others markets. But times were hard and he was about to go broke so he was forced to expand onto other places.
     This did not sit well with the Germans, one of their men even went as far as threatening Dow to take his product off of their market or they'd ruin him. He was forced to cease and desist, or resist. After he refused, the Germans put their product on the American Market for only 19 cents a pound. This completely flooded the U.S. market offering this product way below its price. Their endgame was to try to completely destroy Dow's entire business.
     But Dow outsmarted them and completely stopped selling in the U.S. market and instead had someone else secretly buy all of the Germans stock and repackaged them as his own and sold that to the European market, (even in Germany) for 27 cents a pound. While the Germans were wondering why there was such a great demand for bromine in the U.S. and why Dow wasn't out of business he completely blind sided them and broke the German monopoly. They finally caught on and they were forced to lower their prices back in Germany. He later went on to do the same with their dye and An important thing to note is that these are fungible commodities so that is why they were able to be substituted one for the other for the same price. Nevertheless this became the textbook way to deal with predatory price cutting.
    One man, with all his cards laid out, pushed to his extent managed to evade the U.S. from a German monopoly and the spirit of American Freedom owes all its origin to one single person.
     Herbert Dow: Monopoly Breaker, Freedom Maker, World Shaker.