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When it says that having a price:
1) higher than others is price gauging
2) lower than others is predatory pricing
3) same as the others is collusion

To paraphrase Marc Faber: We're all doomed, but that doesn't mean that we can't make money in the process.
Rabbi Lapin: "Let's make bricks!"
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Juan replied on Thu, May 14 2009 3:00 PM
There you have it. Eliot posted a couple of graphs. That's real science.

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Juan:
There you have it. Eliot posted a couple of graphs. That's real science.

It's got numbers! Wooohoooo!!!!

To paraphrase Marc Faber: We're all doomed, but that doesn't mean that we can't make money in the process.
Rabbi Lapin: "Let's make bricks!"
Stephan Kinsella: "Say you and I both want to make a German chocolate cake."

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Daniel:

When it says that having a price:
1) higher than others is price gauging
2) lower than others is predatory pricing
3) same as the others is collusion

This, without doubt. On the same note, another laughable claim is that of "advertising wars".

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eliotn replied on Thu, May 14 2009 5:06 PM

GilesStratton:

Daniel:

When it says that having a price:
1) higher than others is price gauging
2) lower than others is predatory pricing
3) same as the others is collusion

This, without doubt. On the same note, another laughable claim is that of "advertising wars".

http://anarchyinyourhead.com/2008/08/06/prosecuting-the-free-market/

The thing that bugged me the most was having a supply and demand chart for money, taking out the purchasing power of money and replacing it with interest rate.  I thought that was stupid, and it is the thing that bugged me the most in economics class.  When will the econ professors get the picture that this relationship only holds if the money goes directly to the lending institutions, and when will they finally understand what interest means.
I guess I am in a bad mood about the wrongness of the AP Economics test.

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GilesStratton:

Daniel:

When it says that having a price:
1) higher than others is price gauging
2) lower than others is predatory pricing
3) same as the others is collusion

 

This, without doubt. On the same note, another laughable claim is that of "advertising wars".

Pretty much anything having to do with antitrust and monopoly. Dominick T. Armentano is good on this.

To paraphrase Marc Faber: We're all doomed, but that doesn't mean that we can't make money in the process.
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Stephan Kinsella: "Say you and I both want to make a German chocolate cake."

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