Thanks to: 1. Tawnyport, appreciate your overview and forward...

Thanks to:

1. Tawnyport, appreciate your overview and forward projections.

2. The Whippet, for appearing on the GDY Show, and catalysing such valuable responses across the board.

It's tempting to taunt The whippet with

"Mate they kicked you right in the ceteris paribus"

but i won't, and instead offer Macquarie's definition:

"the other things being equal. "

We could say

"Dude aren't you being a bit oligopoly about all this?"

But instead let's all concur that it means

"a market situation in which a product is supplied by a relatively small number of firms whose actions and policies are constrained by the expected reactions of each other. [oligo- + monopoly] "

We all walk away the richer.