"Business people are constantly meeting behind closed doors and working out plans to promote their own concerns, meaning increase their profits. They do this by taking over markets, driving competitors out of business or taking them over, forming monopolies if they can, and influencing politicians to pass "helpful" legislation. To call any of that a "conspiracy" (a very dramatic and badly compromised word in today's dialogue) is to overlook the fact that it is normal business practice not to tell the whole world exactly what you are up to when you are engaged in such self-aggrandizing business maneuvers. It wouldn't succeed if everyone knew what you were up to. ;-) So you can call it a "conspiracy theory" if you want to pooh-pooh it...but it's just business as usual." Little Hawk

It appears that you are of two minds, LH- because this paragraph is basically what we have been saying: It is business as usual.

Not some shadowy, all-powerful, unscrupulous group(s) that get together once or twice a year to make decisions on what to do next, group(s) that have been doing this for generations if not hundreds of years. And that proposition is what you have been agreeing with for some time now.