How To Use Cartel In A Sentence

The party established a de facto political cartel that excluded other parties from power.
I believe that in a free market without a competition law your worst nightmares would come true, that everything would be monopolised or cartelised.
Roosevelt's National Recovery Act NRA attempted to cartelize the American economy just as Mussolini had cartelized Italy's. In the Monica Lewinsky scandal — 10 years old now — "Everybody lost, with one exception, or possibly two."
This nation was founded on glorious greed, boundless carpetbaggery, corrupt cartels and an oligarchy of rich men whose "countrymen" were other rich men. SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
At least nine people have died in bomb attacks launched by the cartels since President Barco ordered the crackdown on the cocaine traffickers.

The Japanese economy was then, and in many ways still is, highly "cartelized" in manufacturing, farming and trade. Jeff Schweitzer: China's Downfall: the Ultimate Impact of Environmental Degradation
The Zetas were founded by Mexican special forces soldiers who deserted and went to work for the Gulf Cartel as enforcers.
First, the influence of producer cartels on prices of primary products can be great, and yet not reflect scarcity changes.
You have the balloon effect for shifting coca production, what I call the cockroach effect for how the cartels jump from one region to the next, and then there's the whack-a-mole policy to try to deal with all of it," says Bruce Bagley, a political scientist at the University of Miami and an expert on the global drug trade. Cocaine: The New Front Lines
All this happened at a time when the supply of oil was being artificially restricted by the Opec oil cartel. Times, Sunday Times
Since then the cartel has been attempting to show how responsible it is and has favoured price over volume.
Including the pompous local police commissaire; the unflappable intelligence officer from France; the slimy representative of the international oil cartel; and the personages - intelligence, governmental, and clerical of the remnants of the civilian oligarchy; as well as many others, including the Doctor's lover, a Hapsburg We Have All Been Disgraced By Corruption, A Review of Eric Ambler's Doctor Frigo
I have not read Temin's lecture, but it is my understanding that the Hitler regime was marked by even greater cartelization and concentration than anything done in the US. American Mugabe?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
This policy of keeping inventories low will deny consumers a buffer against any production cutbacks that the cartel may make if prices weaken.
Others applaud her courage for speaking out against the cartels. Times, Sunday Times
The toothless regulator appears powerless to stop the alleged cartel of energy companies. Times, Sunday Times
As with the pure monopoly, companies would join a cartel in order to try to protect themselves from the harmful consequences of competition.
The swirl of rumour includes reports that hold the powerful and influential drug cartels responsible.
The answer, he says, was growth-suppressing policies, such as the Smoot-Hawley tariff, cartelization, unionization and, "most important but hardest to measure, FDR's demonization of business. The Disappearing Recovery
The normal purpose of any cartel is to keep prices high by controlling supply and demand.
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Rather than merely alerting the American public to the problems Mexico has long been facing from the narcotraficantes, I fear that the main reaction of the average gringo to this development will be that in addition to flooding their borders with illegal immigrants who are taking jobs from Americans, Mexico is now overrunning the country with drug cartel mafiosi. Project Coronado
So does cartel activity amount to a criminal offence under common law, so as to justify its being extraditable? Times, Sunday Times
Naturally, the Bush administration indicated that they would "discourage" plans for any such cartel. Pipelines and Imperial Missions
Government goes cap in hand to Colombian cocaine cartel. Times, Sunday Times
Moreover, with big Colombian cartels broken up and many kingpins in U.S. jails, local participation in the trade has somewhat "atomized," said Salomon Kalmanovitz, an economist and former member of the Colombian Central Bank's board of directors. Drugs Fade in Colombian Economy
Others applaud her courage for speaking out against the cartels. Times, Sunday Times
Officials usually avoid even the term "drug cartels," and instead refer to them as "organized crime," perhaps more accurate now that much of the gangs' income comes from extortion and kidnapping. KansasCity.com: Front Page
This would cartelize American industry and increase profits.
It would, in short, retain a system of cartelized banking, special privilege, and virtually inevitable generation of inflation and contraction.
As is often the case in the cosy cartel of party politics, the bigger parties are more than happy to retain the status quo.
He is concerned that future elections could be decided by fraudulent voting manipulated by unscrupulous cartels and the like.
The cartels and their shills are what affect them, so their first interest in politics is pushing against corruption, deceit and greed. Swedish Pirates on their way to Brussels
These days we might describe it as an anticompetitive agreement between competitors - perhaps as an illegal cartel had modern anti-trust laws applied.
Including the pompous local police commissaire; the unflappable intelligence officer from France; the slimy representative of the international oil cartel; and the personages - intelligence, governmental, and clerical - of the remnants of the civilian oligarchy. ALL DISGRACED BY CORRUPTION
As public choice economists have shown, government regulation is often the surest means to cartelize an industry, and that almost always benefits the dominant player. The Volokh Conspiracy » American Cancer Sociey Ad-Hominem:
Through the oil cartels, the United States dealt some stinging slaps to its junior partners.
In their attempts to stem cut-throat price competition, railway leaders repeatedly formed cartels to set prices and allocate traffic.
This particular 'Fall of the Rate of Profit' is prophetic, as it marks the LAST; it is the launching of years of planning 'THE FINAL SOLUTION' to 'THE HUMAN PROBLEM' by capital and its allied agents from the past: the bourgeoisie AND the role-ified proletarian; the globalist banking elite; the exclusionary cartelist, cabalist, and cultist; the theocrat and tribalist, esp. from the Middle Eastern triad based in desert [ed] visions; the Fabian / Jacobin Latest posts @WeBlog.ro
Big Music KrAPPy ruling p2pnet. net News: - The Big Four record label cartel is claiming a victory in Korea. Big Music KrAPPy ruling
International drug cartels - made up largely of Mexican nationals - seem especially drawn to the bounty.
I sends un cartel -- you comprends -- to ze gros bon ami de ma Marie, ce cochon d'un epicier! She and I, Volume 2 A Love Story. A Life History.
The two main parties have become a cartel, operating a tacit understanding not to broach any important issue.
In a stunning reversal of laissez-faire and a repudiation of the American devotion to free and competitive markets, the NIRA and the National Recovery Administration NRA, which put the law into practice, suspended all federal antitrust laws and created cartels of businesses in every major industry that—instead of market forces—decided how much products would cost, how much workers would make, and how much companies would produce. A Renegade History of the United States
A journalist managed to infiltrate the powerful drug cartel.
He is also accused of another murder and of being part of two narcotics cartels. The Sun
One industry source claimed that price fixing and the operation of cartels was widespread in the business.
Even heads who do not share this cartel mentality may find that aggressive expansion is not worth the candle.
Oil prices also settled back once the Opec cartel stressed that it would pump additional crude into the market and thereby safeguard western economies from the additional threat of higher inflation.
I think its unexcusable that politicians, and the exclusionary welfare recipient cartels they represent, resort to fear of the non-existent to get elected and to keep money flowing to ponzi schemes cloaking themselves with a ‘healthcare’ banner/chyron. Think Progress » ThinkFast: March 4, 2010
Competition thwarted this cartel when members reneged on the deal, exceeding their quotas.
We will introduce new legislation giving stronger powers to deal with cartels.
And so, from Colombia, you see the cartels putting multiton shipments, up to eight and 10 tons of cocaine a time, into submarines. CNN Transcript Oct 14, 2009
But the cartels simply move production to national parks, where spraying is banned. The Sun
Known as ‘tunnel rats’, they run drugs for the cocaine cartels.
Real civil war, with hostilities increased in scope and area, had overcome a temporary peace scare for the Obama war hawks in Washington, their generals in Afghanistan, and for the media personnel in the news rooms of the cartelized TV networks of America the righteous. Peace in Pakistan Was Intolerable
The corporate media outlets now routinely treat entertainment cartel statements as though they’re credible, counterfeiting is ‘piracy, sharing has become ‘thieving’ and a ‘crime,’ young children are labelled as ‘criminals’ and pilloried in public, extortion is OK, lying, disinformation, misinformation, the distortion of facts, and creative accounting are now absolutely integral to all entertainment cartel information packages. Big Music: scaring children
A journalist managed to infiltrate the powerful drug cartel.
Every agent infiltrating a drug cartel is an agent who could be infiltrating a terrorist cell.
In the last 10 years, we have uncovered many cartels, many secret price fixing agreements.
A journalist managed to infiltrate the powerful drug cartel.
As a general matter, there is an international consensus about the economic evils of price-fixing cartels as unjustifiable restraints of competition.
In the absence of a minimum support price, trade cartels in the towns have continued to profit by continuously lowering the price paid to the Gujjars.
And if your MP is a “son-of-a-dog” and is sleeping with the cartels, at least you took some of their ‘precious time’ (but you also lose your precious time) …. Big Music: scaring children
Police believe it was an act of revenge by the Zetas drug cartel after the officer named gang members involved in the casino attack.
One big trouble with that is that then people remain ignorant of the ruling class, and the fact that Business often pushes regulatory measures to cartelize the system, so I went ahead and named names…
Want to know how governments act to crush independent business while protecting multinational oil cartels?
If natural gas producers form a cartel, they could drive world prices even higher
First a formidable cartel makes a tight combine and launches an advertisement blitz against the hapless rivals.
Associated Press/Mexico's Secretary Navy In this image released by Mexico's navy, sailors guard weapons seized after a battle between the navy and drug cartel gunmen following the killing of 72 migrants in San Fernando, eastern Mexico, Aug. 24. Mexico Takes On the Drug Cartels
The narcos strategy is to kill officers in jurisdictions where the police administrative leadership is strong and to try to force a "calling off of the dogs" by chiefs committed to Calderon's war on drug cartels. Safety in Michoac�n, Part Two
I protested that aspirin is the strongest drug that I take and it's unlikely that I would ever come into contact with the cartel. Mazatlan: Tequila, tans and working stiffs
In a state paper money system, the banking system is de-facto cartelized and the banks' funding conditions and certain interest rates are determined administratively by a state agency—the central bank. Forty Years of Paper Money
This is the transition from sail to steam, in other words, and the owners of the sailboat cartel aren't very happy.
Liquid fuels' pricing is not cartelised, despite the existence of large distributive chains in Bulgaria.
The more than 12,000 pages and about 820,000 electronic files that make up the administrative process confirmed the suspicions and revealed the existence of a sophisticated cartelization of the domestic cement and concrete," SDE said. Holcim Denies Brazil Probe Charges
Just because an industry desires a convenient method of cartel formation, that does not mean it will necessarily get it.
The daughter of a playboy peer has been found dead in the Philippines after allegedly joining a drugs cartel. Times, Sunday Times
He finds little evidence for effects of export cartels on export prices or volume.
They took a hantle o 'preesoners there, and sune cam a' cartel 'they ca' it, offering an exchange. Neville Trueman, the Pioneer Preacher : a tale of the war of 1812
Police detained five alleged drug cartel gunmen in the raid.
This specimen of legal acumen is front and center in the Cartel ` s jihad, having appeared for Viacom when it sued YouTube, for the RIAA against Jammie Thomas, single mother. Obama must ‘recognize consumer rights’
Police said handwritten signs were left with the bodies, a common calling card of the drug cartels. Times, Sunday Times
Like all cartels, the IMF uses its oligopolistic power to pursue political objectives.
For most OPEC members, common sense dictates that the cartel should at least try to work together, meaning there will be some fence-mending efforts in the coming months. Saudi-Iran split fractures OPEC's dominance of oil market
Why is the incentive so great for an individual firm to cheat on a cartel agreement? Microeconomics: Price Theory in Practice
Whether slitting an employee's throat with a box cutter or taking out what's left of the Mexican drug cartel with a poisoned bottle of tequila, Gus was always a portrait of menace. Breaking Bad Postmortem: Giancarlo Esposito Reacts to Season 4's Explosive Finale
Over there, they say, gigantic uncompetitive cartels have an incestuous relationship with government, leading to corruption at all levels.
ATF officials therefore spent weeks deliberating whether to scale back Operation Gunrunner, part of the Obama administration's effort to attack Mexican drug cartels by cracking down on gunrunning along the southwest border. Budget Cutting Starts at Justice Department
As public choice economists have shown, government regulation is often the surest means to cartelize an industry, and that almost always benefits the dominant player.
Lols, The media cartels give new daffynition to that phrase. SunnComm falls for p2pnet spoof
You see, it's a very kind of cartelized, protected profession, there's not enough capacity, there's not enough MRI's and they're trying to restrict the numbers and keep the prices up, so this really the market working and bringing the cost down. CNN Transcript Jun 15, 2003
While earlier historians focused attention on the failures of monetary policy, and on the distortions caused by the Hawley-Smoot tariffs, evidence now points more strongly to policies that tried to keep wages artificially high (under Hoover and then Roosevelt) and to cartelize industry (under Roosevelt). Another Great Depression?
Drug cartels wielded enormous influence in the city.
Legislative analysis by a half-dozen states that rebuffed ASID's attempts to cartelize interior design -- including Colorado, Washington and South Carolina -- has failed to support ASID's claim that the location of your couch or the color of your bedroom walls is literally a matter of life and death. Watch Out for That Pillow
It is against this boorish cartel that 16 Yale students and recent alumni asserted themselves in a Title IX complaint brought against the institution last month—a complaint that could cost the university $500 million in federal funds. Shutter Fraternities for Young Women's Good
The oil production cartel meets in Vienna as prices continue to hover close to the $50 per barrel mark and amidst continued strong demand from China.
Colombian special forces blow up an airstrip used by a cocaine cartel to fly drugs out of the country. Times, Sunday Times
Mexico's cartels seeking to control cities often target local officials. The Sun
Liquid fuels' pricing is not cartelised, despite the existence of large distributive chains in Bulgaria.
The Mexican army says it has killed 27 suspected drug cartel gunmen in a clash near the US border.
Social media users who denounce drug cartel activities along the Mexican border received a brutal warning this week: Two mangled bodies hanging like cuts of meat from a pedestrian bridge.
Canada again attacked as Pirate Haven p2pnet news view | P2P | Politics: - Canada has once again been singled out by entertainment cartel politicians for special attention. Canada again attacked as Pirate Haven
Investigators examining interbank lending during the financial crisis are looking at whether a cartel of banks colluded to keep borrowing costs down. Times, Sunday Times
I want you to call Obama and their Federal Representatives and tell them not to move forward with Obama's "militarist" - solution to the "Border Cartel Drug Wars. Re-Legalize Marijuana to Destroy the Mexican Drug Cartels
Ohanian and Cole posit that workers and employers would seek to become part of this cartelized economy in which wages and prices were higher. Hale "Bonddad" Stewart: The Great Depression, Part IV
I unlocked the cupboard and got out a few stores, opened the windows of the bedroom next door, and flung my kaross on the cartel which did duty as bed. Prester John
No, the smugglers were mostly from organized crime cartels based in Bombay.
This proposal opens the door to more banker influence and cartelization. joe from Lowell Says: Matthew Yglesias » The Real Story on Bankster Political Influence
All the unions did was form cartels and use the threat of violence to keep competitors at bay and extort some wealth from the capitalists.
Wait, how's legalizing it going to end the cartel wars? Russ Belville: LA Weekly's racist scaremongering about Latinos and Prop 19
For decades the neighbourhood has been controlled by drug cartels, with access strictly restricted. Times, Sunday Times
Yes, indeed; he's what they call a musician _di primo cartello_!" he exclaimed, with a sudden determination. Swann's Way
The notorious cocaine cartels have been attacked and fragmented. Times, Sunday Times
Several major figures in narco cartels have been captured and prosecuted. Drugs, Rebellion, And Mexico's Militarization
Tackling directors' pay, tax-dodging tax havens, the soft cartelism of class and education ... there are sound ideas here. Times, Sunday Times
Meanwhile, the cartels have a huge investment in bludgeoning governments into following industry dictates and British home secretary Jacqui Smith, “is seriously considering taking on the role of Big Sister, seemingly planning a form of online censorship,” we said in another post. ‘Email Jacqui Smith’ online protest
This means that cartelist practices would have been even more difficult to sustain than they already are today. Switzerland and the EC After the Rejection of the European Economic Area
The harbinger is the situation in Mexico, where the cartels are mounting armed attacks on officials, driving them to take repressive measures that are building resentment among ordinary citizens, many of whom are coming to see police and military as more of a threat than the cartelistas. The Volokh Conspiracy » If You’re Reading This, You’re Probably a Federal Criminal:
International drug cartels constitute their own society in numerous ways.
That was pretty much what I figured out from my long career at a technologically advanced firm where we broke into a small, sleepy, cartelized, technically backward, and highly profitable market, revolutionized how business was done, create huge amounts of value for customers, and reduced the whole industry, including us, to negligible profits for a decade. Matthew Yglesias » An Influential Idea I Didn’t Get in a Book
She had to flee Guatemala to come to Canada after her work with trade unions put her in direct fire of the local cartels in her home country.
The Colombian drug cartels first felt the squeeze. Times, Sunday Times
Opec: The oil producers cartel has given warning that it may increase oil production this year if prices continue to rise. Times, Sunday Times
The drug cartels are making a concerted comeback and the police are getting edgy. Times, Sunday Times
Others applaud her courage for speaking out against the cartels. Times, Sunday Times
More than 300 people have been arrested in a series of drug raids targeting a Mexican drug cartel operating in the US, American officials have said.
It was suggested that the final showdown could take place in Mexico and involve a battle with brutal drugs cartels. Times, Sunday Times
Air fares soar as Jet pilots, management stand ground production quotas unchanged, opting to take a cautious approach in a Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) Thursday decided to leave its production quotas unchanged, opting to take a cautious approach in a oil prices about where OPEC wants them and a modest economic upturn in the offing, the oil cartel isn't likely to tighten the taps when its leaders meet this week in Vienna. WN.com - Articles related to Oil surges towards $75, eyes China, US data
It seems inevitable that the label cartel will attempt to use the marks to inflict liability on users if music bearing their email address appears online. Techdirt
I wanted to control a worldwide cartel on opera production. A TALE OF FOUR HOUSES: Opera at Covent Garden, La Scala, Vienna and the Met since 1945
Like a Wrist under the wheelwright of a tottering cartel! The Sea at Sea (or Why is There a Question Instead of Not a Question)
Take away the outdated reasoning, and what you have is an old-fashioned cartel.
The two main parties have become a cartel, operating a tacit understanding not to broach any important issue.
Investigators examining interbank lending during the financial crisis are looking at whether a cartel of banks colluded to keep borrowing costs down. Times, Sunday Times
A new law is expected to make price-fixing by big business cartels a criminal offence, meaning bosses could - in theory - receive a prison sentence.
Private banks hold nations hostage by making them pay interest on their own money as well as "advanc (ing) massive loans to their affiliated cartels and hedge funds, which use the money to raid competitors and manipulate markets. Ending Today's Economic Crisis Simply and Easily, in America and Globally
The generally acknowledged leader of the cartel is Benjamin Arellano, who usually keeps a low profile.
Well, if legalization came into being, would the cartel need to kill each other trying to gain boarder territorial rights? US policy and Mexico's war on drugs
Starting with a series of White House conferences jawboning business leaders into "voluntarily" holding up wage rates, Hoover pressed with mixed results for further cartelization in agriculture, in the cotton textile industry, in commercial aviation, and in the energy industries — coal, oil, and electricity. Depression Economics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
It's also the case that 20,000 border patrol officers just aren't enough to cool the ongoing national furor over illegal immigration and drug-cartel violence, even if the estimated price tag of each new hire is $160,000 for background checks, salaries, night-vision goggles and additional necessities. G.W. Schulz: With Border Surveillance in Trouble, a New Defense Contractor Lines Up
Federal prosecutors said the 22-year-old American citizen from Laredo was a hired assassin or "sicario" for the Zetas and the Gulf Cartel. Latest Articles
The most serious forms of cartel identified by the authority were price-fixing, bid rigging and market sharing by competitors.
As long as the sun continues to shine and the wind to blow, the supply of renewables remains unaffected by foreign-oil cartels or greedy manipulators.
This impressively contrasts with the first half of the century when Germany was the synonym of a highly cartelized country.
And you Senator Schumer, you gave the cartels a wink and a nod and bloviated in public about reform. Randy Credico: Congratulations Chuck! You've Knocked Me Off the Democratic Primary Ballot
And the process by which federalism emerges here does not seem nearly as important as the power dynamic that results: Once the protection agencies have arrived at a mechanism for detente or dispute resolution or whatever we care to call it, why should we not expect this same mechanism to serve to permit them to exercise monopoly power as a cartel, whether or not the agencies remain nominally distinct? Understanding Nozick Perfectly Well, Thank You
To worry about the integrity of the cartel is absurd. Matthew Yglesias » The Pool
But in the real world – a world of state intervention to reduce the bargaining power of labor and to cartelize markets among oligopoly firms – the so-called “fallacy” can be quite sensible. It’s the Technology, Stupid
Even Hong Kong — lauded by the Heritage Foundation as the world's freest economy (de facto cartels affect the port to supermarkets to electricity to cement) — has failed to pass the kind of antimonopoly statutes that are a central pillar of developed economies around the world. Ties That Bind
The Commission imposed fines on three chemicals companies on Dec. 19, 1990, for operating an illegal cartel in soda ash.
The book tells the story of “young, independent Laguna Beach-based marijuana kingpins are blackmailed into working for the Baja Cartel after one of their threesome is kidnapped.” Oliver Stone To Direct Don Winslow’s Drug Cartel Thriller Savages | /Film
In fact, a synthetic antimalarial called mepacrine was produced in the 1930s by the German chemical cartel IG Farben.
: In December 2008, Narco News correspondent Bill Conroy laid out the evidence that corruption within the Mexican military may not be limited to a few isolated incidents of (albeit high-ranking) officers on the cartel payroll in his story One source, former DEA agent Celerino "Cele" Castillo III, told Conroy: The Narco News Bulletin
Bankers were like economic planners who took over industry and streamlined it through initially profitable monopolies and cartels. The Origins of Economic Inequality between Nations: A critique of Western theories on development and underdevelopment
If these things had happened solely in the private sector, the members of the cartel would have been prosecuted under the Trade Practices Act.
The healthy effects of market competition may be offset by mergers, cartels, or price leadership understandings, most of which are legitimated or tolerated by government.
Conjecture: Well, if legalization came into being, would the cartel need to kill each other trying to gain boarder territorial rights? US policy and Mexico's war on drugs
At the end of the war, the Allies had forced the deconcentration of the coal and steel industries in Germany, and the break-up of the cartels that had restricted competition.
As cartel pricing crumbled, imports flooded in in large quantities for the first time.
We can only hope that Calderon can throw the cartels on the defensive, gain cooperation from a frightened public which is reluctant to trust police, and start controlling the drug kingpins -- whose organizations seem in the meantime to be decentralizing and squabbling over territory. Concern for MX Govt
There is already an organization, a human one, known as "Phoebus," the international light-bulb cartel, headquartered in Switzerland. Gravity's Rainbow
Today cartels and gangs find easy recruits amid the 50,000 ni nis, teenagers who neither study nor work. Mexico's drug war: 'I shot him in the back and he fell ? in that moment I felt the best'
This milestone measure is a living tribute to the thousands of men and women who have lost their lives in pursuit of a world free of mafias, drug cartels and criminal gangs.
A new report from the Consumer Federation of America says traditional real estate agents have formed what they call a cartel; one that is keeping commission fees high. CNN Transcript Jun 24, 2006
They have seized companies run by mobsters in the drywall, window-replacement, and painting industries to bust up cartels.
However, in most cases where no cartel is formed, the market forces will create competition for local products, and cause prices to drop. P2P: just an excuse for ACTA
drug cartels sometimes finance terrorist organizations
Also unheard-of was a cartel cornering a commodity such as crude oil, as long as the medium of exchange was gold.
Our people run after nostrums of cartelization or socialization, though no theorist has succeeded in discovering how to make them work.
Of course, since the law profession is cartelized, I doubt this could garner much traction even if it were a thoroughly excellent idea. The Volokh Conspiracy » A Modest Proposal for Bar Exam Reform:
The appearance of Charlie's Angel Lucy Liu as head of a powerful cartel of Japanese yakuza, adds to that sense that you are watching bad ‘angels’.
Others applaud her courage for speaking out against the cartels. Times, Sunday Times
They found that although conditions were generally deplorable the cells of cartel bosses looked more like hotel rooms. Times, Sunday Times
The Institute for Justice, for example, recently filed suit against the Louisiana Horticulture Commission, which cartelizes florists.
They organize a cartel for the purpose of raising the price for the product in question.
Cartel arrangements and exclusionary practices must be stopped. Times, Sunday Times
So we have a new capitalist giant being squashed by a cartel of more established capitalist giants.
Even heads who do not share this cartel mentality may find that aggressive expansion is not worth the candle.
The Commission has reduced the fines imposed in the past where participants in cartels have played a reduced role in relation to the hard-core members.
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexican army captured a key figure in the cult-like Knights Templar drug cartel that is sowing violence in western Mexico, a top officer announced Tuesday.
Posted February 7, 2007 1: 18 AM flix writes: albeit focusing more on the link to organized labor than business cartels. Collusion in the Classroom, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
It is simply not a very efficient cartel and there is now a global glut of oil. Times, Sunday Times
A dinky little singer was blasted in a Matamoros hospital in December for irritating some cartel guys, so murder among the scrubs is not an innovation in crime for Mexican gangsters. El Paso Invites Mexico Crime across the Border
But last week's global stock market slump underscores the cartel's dilemma.
Federal prosecutors said the 22-year-old American citizen from Laredo was a hired assassin or" sicario "for the Zetas and the Gulf Cartel. Latest Articles
If any business or occupation, global or otherwise, is open to entry world wide all attempts to cartelise or monopolise will fail.
But U.S. officials are ratcheting up the rhetoric, going so far as using the term insurgency to describe how Mexican cartels are challenging the government. U.S. Sees Heightened Threat in Mexico
Last Wednesday, Klayman held a press conference outside the cartel's quarters where he waved a gas pump nozzle at OPEC calling the nozzle a "smoking gun" that ties OPEC to the current financial disaster in the US Their artificial run-up in oil prices earlier this year set the stage for the economic problems we're now having, he said. The Reality Check
With his puppet master Karl Rove playing both ends against the middle, endlessly distracting the goyim from the reality of the world banking cartel’s control of world events, maybe Bush will implode like the World Trade Center buildings and WTC 7, and take Rove with him. Think Progress » The attack on Patrick Fitzgerald begins.
Evidence and economic theory suggests that control of the Internet by the phone and cable companies would lead to blocking of competing technologies (as in theMadison River case), blocking of innovative technologiesthat may not even compete with the phone/cablecartel (according to Comcast itself, theComcast/BitTorrent case would be an example), andincreased spying on Internet users. Marvin Ammori: Models for the Internet's Future: Obama-Open or Julius-Closed
None of this is likely to change the dynamics of stadium-bidding, as long as the sports-league cartels distort the market.
The cartel then began a long drift towards the centre.
Examples of interventionist measures by the French government included tough agricultural import restrictions and minimum grain prices, intended to support the nominal incomes of farmers (a political powerful group of debtors); government-supported cartelization of industry, as well as import protection, with the goal of increasing prices and profits; and measures to reduce labor supply, including repatriation of foreign workers and the shortening of workweeks. Normal Criticism of the New Deal, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
In an address before a joint session of Congress this year, President Felipe Calderon asked the United States to reimpose a ban on the assault-style rifles favored by Mexican drug cartels and to work harder to stop weapons flowing from gun shops and gun shows along the southwest border into Mexico. U.S. and Mexico struggle to stop flow of weapons across border
CNN: Documents: Slain cartel member feared for his life POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: August 13, 2009
Navy, and they even got to try to cartelize their industry when they could peaceably agree with each other to restrain trade. Matthew Yglesias » Gulf Stability and the New Iraq
Cartels may self-destruct, but will in most cases be less efficient than mergers.
May 7, 2010, 11: 58 am zuch says: wm13: openvolokh, the issues you raise (inelastic supply curves, cartelization, producers with monopoly pricing power) are covered in a standard Econ 101 course. The Volokh Conspiracy » Ideology and Economic Ignorance
In the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, business leaders are so concerned about spiraling drug cartel-related violence that they have asked the United Nations to send in peacekeeping soldiers to restore calm. POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: November 13, 2009

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