IANAL, and perhaps you are but I don’t believe it is 100% legal. Seems like a matter of degree. What the parent is describing could reasonably be construed as i

IANAL, and perhaps you are but I don’t believe it is 100% legal. Seems like a matter of degree. What the parent is describing could reasonably be construed as illegal signaling and/or pricing collusion if the market is itself the mechanism for collusion. There will be some interesting internal emails. Good overview of signaling here - https://www.jonesday.com/-/media/files/publications/2016/09/sending-the-wrong-message-antitrust-liability-for/files/fall16-renderc/fileattachment/fall16renderc.pdf?rev=780423be4f914b7598419368a13a7027 https://www.jonesday.com/-/media/files/publications/2016/09/...