In what other industry can the biggest suppliers collude and fix prices with impunity?
In other words, money managers and brokers may collude to the detriment of retail investors.
It's illegal for companies to carve up a market, collude on bids or fix pricing.
Companies may collude to fix prices internationally, or agree not to compete in each other's markets.
In effect, anti-dumping measures encourage domestic and foreign producers to collude to raise prices.
It would be unseemly for law firms to collude on their billable rates in an antitrust case.
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Prosecutors have argued that they need to be detained so that they do not collude with witnesses.
By appearing to collude to suspend Adams, Twitter and NBC made an angry sports fan into a social media Zapata.
Its the latest trick in the 'dumbing-down' of exams in which everybody who matters (exam boards , headmasters , ministers) collude.
Perhaps Blackstone, once it sees returns from commercial property, can collude with its private equity chums to give these startups a boost.
According to a source who is an expert in internal audit services to public companies, internal controls are not very effective when executives collude and conceal information.
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First, it underlines that, with a more open system in the Commons, it is no longer possible for governments and Oppositions to collude to prevent prime-time debates on euro-issues.
In return, the sole flag carrier of the small country at the other end is allowed to collude on fares and capacity with its chosen American partner, without being clobbered by antitrust law.
Russian organized crime syndicates and criminally linked oligarchs may attempt to collude with state or state-allied actors to undermine competition in strategic markets like natural gas, oil, aluminum, and precious metals, the National Security Council attests.
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That would do something to answer another objection: namely, that banks might find it too easy to collude by buying each other's subordinated debt, so that the price they charged was not a true market price.
Psychological studies, such as the one Stanley Milgram carried out at Yale University and published in 1974, have repeatedly shown that, given certain conditions, 80% of most populations will either collude or directly take part in acts of violence.
America's Department of Transportation (DoT), which has some antitrust powers, has not only given its blessing to the rise of alliances, but actually requires airlines to collude fully within each of their groupings, and to share costs and agree on prices.
Under your plan, instead of receiving Medicare benefits when I am old and frail should I expect to figure out how to purchase insurance from a cartel of companies that are protected by the Federal government and allowed to collude on predatory pricing schemes?
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But instead of stating this boldly and clearly, we collude with the medical profession who, at an unconscious level, are always only too pleased to increase the ambit of their own expertise, and ask of our legislators that suicide be rendered simply another medical procedure.
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