The members of the price-fixing cartel are still benefitting from their crime today. They indeed stopped raising prices in March 2015, but bread prices remained at that artificially high level. You are still paying 56 cents in "cartel tax" on each loaf of bread. (I did this analysis in 2023, so you're actually paying them *more* today)
The members of the price-fixing cartel are still benefitting from their crime today. They indeed stopped raising prices in March 2015, but bread prices remained at that artificially high level. You are still paying 56 cents in "cartel tax" on each loaf of bread. (I did this analysis in 2023, so you're actually paying them *more* today)
Indeed, they raised the floor on prices. And as we discuss in the episode, it really makes you wonder what else they may have conspired on.