Showing posts with label cartels. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cartels. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 20, 2025

"Pocket listings" in residential real estate

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 After recent antitrust rulings regarding residential real estate sales, big brokers are regrouping: Yahoo finance has the story The real es...
Monday, February 26, 2024

Prison gangs, in Latin America and in the U.S.

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 It's one thing to be able to capture and confine prisoners. When gangs are involved, it's quite another thing to control the prison...
Thursday, June 3, 2021

Realtors still have a few tricks up their sleeves--"Whisper listings"

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 It once looked as if the growth of the internet, and increased access to home listing databases, would substantially weaken the grip of lic...
Thursday, September 24, 2015

Israeli law internships serve multiple purposes, as recent changes make clear

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Internships and pre-licensing employment under other names serves multiple purposes. One purpose is to train future professionals. Another ...
Sunday, September 20, 2015

The real estate broker cartel is tough in India

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Here's a report of real estate brokers in India roughing up the employees of a company that seeks to help buyers and sellers manage wit...
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Tuesday, December 25, 2012

The global strategic maple syrup reserve

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The global strategic maple syrup reserve has been breached, here's the NY Times story: I n $18 Million Theft, Victim Was a Canadian Mapl...
Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Collusion, for fun and profit: Marshall and Marx

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I was delighted to receive in the mail the new book The Economics of Collusion: Cartels and Bidding Rings , by Robert C. Marshall and Les...
Saturday, December 13, 2008

Illegal cartels and the prisoner's dilemma

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Paraffin wax is a humble byproduct of oil refining, and the EU's competition commission recently fined a passel of big oil refiners for ...
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