Re:Price fixing in RAM (Score 1)

Not in the least. But in America as well as a lot of other nations anti-trust laws are at least pretended to be enforced. It doesn't stop all abuse. No legal process does. (Just look at the Patent situation) It does stop the price of ram going from $35-$900 overnight. Hard to argue there is no price fixing there in 1991. As for the US Ram manufacturer they stopped producing computer quality ram for a long time and returned to it once the import tax was brought in. And once the import tax came in RAM dropped by 50% now how did that happen? Certain nations tend to support price fixing more than others. Look at OPEC which BTW was put together by a bunch of US businessmen and not the governments of the nations involved.