People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the confversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.

Adam Smith (1723-1790) Scottish economist
The Wealth of Nations, 1.10.2 (1776)

 
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