Monopolies, most of the times, are attached with bad impacts, bad influences, and bad results. And after the Gilded Age, big businesses almost ruled the entire industries since laissez faire was practiced. For instance, Northern Securities Company was established after the railroads bosses fight for control of Burlington Railroad, almost triggered a financial panic that could have plunged the nation into a recession, and ultimately compromised to cooperate. Such formation represents private interests acting in a way that threatened the nation as a whole. In retrospect, some wanted to disband the trusts, some wanted the governments to set up stronger and tighter regulations, while others wanted the governments to take over all big public industries