{"id":13643,"date":"2016-02-07T09:00:44","date_gmt":"2016-02-07T14:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=13643"},"modified":"2016-02-07T03:00:17","modified_gmt":"2016-02-07T08:00:17","slug":"price-fixing-at-auschwitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2016\/price-fixing-at-auschwitz\/","title":{"rendered":"Price Fixing At Auschwitz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-13644\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/auschwitz1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"price fixing auschwitz\" width=\"670\" height=\"447\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/auschwitz1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/auschwitz1-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/auschwitz1-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/auschwitz1.jpg 1180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the 1980s Israel started sending school children to Poland to see Nazi camps such as Auschwitz. These trips are now at the heart of a new scandal writes Adam Taylor:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The cost of the trips has long been a sore point for Israeli families. Poorer students can&#8217;t afford the US$1,300 usually required.<\/li>\n<li>The Israeli government gave tenders to a number of tour operators to manage the trips. Having multiple ones was meant to bring down prices.<\/li>\n<li>However Israeli authorities now believe that the companies were illegally coordinating with each other to fix prices and keep profits high.<\/li>\n<li>There are also allegations that some of the companies paid bribes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/worldviews\/wp\/2016\/01\/19\/israeli-parents-wondered-why-school-trips-to-auschwitz-cost-so-much-the-answer-may-be-price-fixing\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/worldviews\/wp\/2016\/01\/19\/israeli-parents-wondered-why-school-trips-to-auschwitz-cost-so-much-the-answer-may-be-price-fixing\/\">The Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2016\/01\/bad-press.html\">Marginal Revolution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 1980s Israel started sending school children to Poland to see Nazi camps such as Auschwitz. These trips are now at the heart of a new scandal writes Adam Taylor: The cost of the trips has long been a sore point for Israeli families. Poorer students can&#8217;t afford the US$1,300 usually required. The Israeli [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/auschwitz1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13643"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13646,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13643\/revisions\/13646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}