Have your french fries become more expensive? A “potato cartel” of leading food producers is to blame, five new federal lawsuits contend. Cavendish Farms, Lamb Weston, McCain Foods and the J.R.
Frozen potato producers are the target of multiple new federal lawsuits alleging that companies have been coordinating their prices through third-party data providers to form a “potato cartel.” ...
Of all the reasons it could be hard to pay rent each month, did you have an algorithm-powered illegal cartel on your list? Millions of people across the United States are paying far more rent than ...
Do you have a sneaking suspicion that food manufacturers are price gouging? Sure, inflation and labor shortages contributed to higher prices at the grocery store, but — surprise! — prices don’t seem ...
Of all the reasons it could be hard to pay rent each month, did you have an algorithm-powered illegal cartel on your list? Millions of people across the United States are paying far more rent than ...
The son-in-law of a Mexican drug lord pleaded guilty this week to a scheme that used violence and threats to fix prices and control the transnational used-car market at the U.S.-Mexico border. Carlos ...
A House of Representatives subcommittee alleged anticompetitive practices and rising tuition costs among Ivy League universities in a hearing on Wednesday. The hearing — held by the House Judiciary ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Roger Alford, University of Notre Dame (THE CONVERSATION) Of all the reasons it could ...