Roxon’s plan to fix the floor price of alcohol means effectively the retail alcohol industry is going to be coerced into a massive cartel between itself and the government, writes Ian Hanke.
Price fixing
VIDEO: Italy’s pasta mafia
As Mamma Spaghetti would say: itsa not nice! Italy’s top five pasta makers have been accused of forming a “pasta cartel”, fixing prices and causing the cost of spag in the country to skyrocket by 36%
Champagne’s price control a fizzer of an idea
Champagne producers have apparently stopped picking grapes and cellared 1.2 billion bottles of bubbles to reduce demand and push up the cost. But why would it be so bad for business to let the price fall? wonders Vinfolio CEO Steve Bachmann.
How the free market can save the free press
In order for news organisations to survive, the US government must grant them exemption from antitrust and price-fixing laws so that they can essentially “collude for survival”, argues Tim Rutten.
Tips and rumours: Building classrooms to destroy them
Tipsters tell of classroom-building chaos, the Michael Jackson msuci store cash grab, price fixing and the new head of FremantleMedia.
Briefly Business: Retail price raids in Britiain and Stokes flashes the Monet
British competition watchdog probes retail price fixing … Buffett warns US recession will be tougher than expected … Kerry Stokes flashes the Monet.
