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		rcthompson on Jan 21, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cartels Are an Emergent Phenomenon, Say Complexity... An interesting related question might be: what happens when a subset of buyers can react quickly, but the rest react slowly? And ditto for a subset of sellers.

dingfeng_quek on Jan 22, 2012 | [–]

The fast ones become rich. They perform trades equivalent to front-running and/or scalping. The enterprising fast becomes a middleman to the slow.

andrewcooke on Jan 21, 2012 | [–]

the slow ones go out of business.

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