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Right, but "companies raise prices more than inflation based cost increases in production would allow for" non-sequitur. There's plenty of ways that prices can raise faster than input costs, that doesn't imply price fixing.



> that doesn't imply price fixing

But Potatorac and Agri Stats do. They are price-fixing right out in the open.


same thing realpage was doing for renting.

It is 21st century version of a cartel.

Cartel via an app. It should be illegal. I was hoping feds going after RealPage would be a deterrent to that trend. But with the new admin, yeah thats over.


The author is doing some extra work to connect dots that might otherwise be better left connected by the readers.




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