Sentences with phrase «artificially raise prices»

However, the preferred solutions don't include cap and trade and tax and be damned as these simply artificially raise prices of essential production.

How did Amazon become the bad guys during an investigation into whether or not Apple and several publishers violated anti-trust laws in order to artificially raise prices for reading consumers, thereby resulting in an increase in their own profits as well?

This settlement isn't to be confused with the Department of Justice lawsuit against Apple for colluding with five of the then - Big Six publishers to artificially raise the prices of ebooks in order to draw some of the control over the market away from Amazon.

Flooded with cash wealthy individuals and corporations use that money to buy stocks, which artificially raises the price with no underlying economic growth to justify higher prices, the market bubbles, the market crashes and takes the larger economy with it.

The congressman wants to eliminate quotas on sugar imports which he said have artificially raised the price of the domestic product, sometimes as much as double the world market price.

The lawsuit alleges that Apple and five of the publishers colluded to artificially raise the price of ebooks in 2010 when the iPad was introduced in order to force Amazon to stop selling ebooks at or below cost.

He did rather quickly start personal attacks, rather than trying to respond to facts and things like «not a lot of folks BUY from Apple, they're artificially raising their prices, and they're really hard to use even if you have exactly what you're «supposed» to.

The only practical way to reduce America's carbon emissions to the extent that the Progressive Left claims is necessary is to artificially raise the price of all carbon fuels to levels which will make them uncompetitive in the energy marketplace.

And no need to artificially raise the price of fossil carbon.

The detriment of this social mania, and the dead and dying from artificially raising the price of energy are real, present, but not well accounted for yet.

Not exact matches

Each city as its own taxi cartel which raise prices and legally and artificially raises the cost of taxies in those cities.

Don't break your connections (with relatives or friends), don't turn your backs on each other, don't be jealous of each other, don't raise prices artificially, don't cheat, O God's creatures.

The zone is intended to address transmission bottlenecks and attract investment in new power plants by, as Maserjian puts it, artificially raising electricity prices.

Apple is awaiting the May court date to determine the damages they will pay for attempting to oust Amazon in the e-reading market by colluding with publishers to artificially raise ebook prices.

@ERose Of course the publishers tried the same thing except instead of lower prices they tried to artificially raise them.

The horizontal portion of the conspiracy constitutes per se illegal conduct in that the Publishers Defendants and Apple agreed to raise, fix, stabilize and maintain the retail consumer prices the eBook versions of hardcover best sellers and new releases at artificially high levels.

Subsidies Not Going To Those That Need It Most As for the concern that in many developing nations keeping energy prices artificially low is needed to help raise people out of poverty, Birol noted that just 8 % of fossil fuel subsidies in 2010 went to the poorest 20 % of people.

Pilgrim's Pride in a class action alleging the major chicken producers reduced output to raise the price of broiler chickens and in a related litigation alleges the producers conspired to divide markets upstream, so as to artificially lower the price paid to growers.