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house and if so, what might that look like?

Readings

Listen to author Christopher Mason explain how he began covering the price-fixing conspiracy http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=697473416; 

hear Alfred Taubman's thoughts on his meetings with Sir Anthony Tennant http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=697487072; and see some of

the handwritten notes detailing the terms of the "fix" http://www.cnbc.com/id/23812895/ from CNBC's American Greed, Season 2, Episode 16,

"Soaking the Rich at Auction".

Read Orley Ashenfelter and Kathryn Graddy,"Anatomy of the Rise and Fall of a Price-Fixing Conspiracy: Auctions at Sotheby's and Christie's,"

Journal of Competition Law and Economics I (I) 3-20, 2005 http://www.econ.ucsb.edu/~tedb/Courses/Ec1F07/ashenfeltersothebychristie.pdf 

and James B. Stewart's, "Bidding War: How an Antitrust Investigation into Christie's and Sotheby's Became a Race to See Who Could Betray

Whom," the New Yorker, Anals of Law, October 15, 2001, p. 158 https://www.msu.edu/course/ec/360/george/Readings/Bidding%20War.htm

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