the chinese vitamin c cartel pretty much the day after they finished consolidating the power over a vitamin c ascorbic acid the jack the price 400%. but we know that is what happens. that is just the way it goes but we should also keep in mind it affects us as consumers in the variety of product put in front of us and the quality of the product put in front of us but how about jobs because that is a big issue today. i'm sure that tonight the president will talk a lot of jobs. now, simple common sense tells us that monopolization will reduce the bargaining power of the people who work for those monopolies who are in the control of those monopolies, and just to get a sense of how this works you consider the advertising industry. some of you watched that show, "mad minn." and it's about all of these sort of scrappy little companies, jay walter thompson, leo burnett, all of those companies in the recent years have been brought under the control of three holding companies, omnicom, interpublic and wpp to the people who work for those companies compare to even ten years ago they got a lot less ab