In the history of mankind, price fixing has never worked in any society ever.
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And there have been ongoing rows over price fixing in the construction and fine arts sectors.
The basic point is that you just cannot mix free trade and price fixing.
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Lawyers for Alfred Taubman, the former Sotheby's chairman on trial for price fixing, blame Diana Brooks.
While you'd think the players union would be up in arms about such price fixing, it isn't.
Do you have evidence that there is any, as you put it, bid rigging or price fixing?
This was rather awkward: Christie's and Sotheby's are already under fire in America for alleged price fixing.
That's why the government has reacted so swiftly to allegations that the energy firms are price fixing.
Unemployment statistics show that the brunt of these misguided attempts at price fixing falls on young black men.
In early January, the NDRC announced regulations aimed at price fixing, an indirect tactic to get at inflation.
Ms Kroes has made the fight against price fixing and other competition violations one of her main priorities.
Despite the allegations of share-price fixing hanging over his campaign Mr Lee won a landslide victory in December's poll.
The US government has filed a lawsuit against British Oil giant BP for alleged price fixing in the propane industry.
Within the EU price fixing is a civil offense, with the power to bust cartels squarely lying within Monti's authority.
Shares in the auction house Sotheby's have plummeted, following allegations of price fixing and the resignation of two top managers.
Economic growth, not price fixing in the form of a federally mandated minimum wage, is the only path to prosperity.
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Those prices are, as you might well imagine, below the open market prices that would be charged without such price fixing.
Some countries, for example, tolerate price fixing, while others unreservedly condemn it.
For of course the pharma companies do not make unlimited amounts of drugs available at those discounted prices in those price fixing countries.
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BA's fines have run into millions in relation to price fixing, fuel, and cargo, and unfortunately it is the staff that has to suffer.
Then there's the Federal Trade Commission, which has broad oversight over everything from price fixing at the gas pump to whether Google is a monopoly.
Thus it should be less vulnerable to charges of price fixing.
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Does this mean that some price fixing still occurs on Nasdaq?
Mr Powell works for EC Harris, one of the main firms of quantity surveyors who advise water companies on costs and estimates for price fixing negotiations.
He also defended the Office of Fair trading which found no evidence of price fixing when it carried out its own investigation into the petrol market last year.
All the problems of price fixing created opportunities to lecture.
Ever since the Department of Justice went after Apple, Amazon and the book publishers for price fixing, Amazon went back to setting e-book prices as it sees fit.
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Today there are no rules outlawing bid rigging, price fixing, and other insurance company practices that will drive up health care costs, and often drive up their own profits as well.
But the NCAA now argues that in the same case, the Supreme Court blessed its current price fixing via dicta (that is, side commentary unrelated to the actual holding in a case).
The tool the Chinese government used to discipline Unilever on Friday was the country's Price Law, a regulation that limits public commentary about future prices to avoid anticompetitive practices, including price fixing.
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