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.
Banks frequently do not provide long-term loans, but collude with managers to shovel money offshore and cheat shareholders.
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.
Until the police have the training and incentives to enforce the law, rather than collude in breaking it, killings will continue.
Under the terms of the insurance exemption, health insurance companies can collude with one another, fix prices, rig bids and form cartels.
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The first involves rich Russians and their efforts to launder their reputations and the willingness of politicians of all stripes to collude with them.
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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To do this we first need to admit to ourselves that we are indeed complexity creators whether we initiate it directly or collude with others to perpetuate it.
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.
The first thing they would do is collude and as they have more time than us to work out these things, they would likely get away with it too.
"The thought that we would collude with the Taliban flies in the face of everything we have done here and is absolutely without foundation, " Ambassador James Cunningham said in a statement.
Until these things begin to happen we can expect our media to continue to collude with their American partners, and with Livni and Barak to undermine the will of the public.
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.
China already has plenty of both, and officials and factory owners are always able to collude to keep getting rich at the public's expense, as a long string of other food safety scandals demonstrates.
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.
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