Price-fixing to price-gouging
CAPITALISM: A Barrel of Rotten Apples By Humphrey McQueen ‘…price-protection is, and must always, remain the very first and foremost plank in any fighting platform worthy of the name, and hang the public!’ Southern Grocer, 1912.[1] For most Australian capitalists in the first six decades of last century, tariff protection took second place to price-fixing, which undermined the ‘frugal comfort’ …