"To widen the market and to narrow the competition, is always the interest of the dealers...
The proposal of any new law or regulation of commerce which comes from this order,
ought always to be listened to with great precaution, and ought never to be adopted
till after having been long and carefully examined, not only with the most scrupulous,
but with the most suspicious attention. It comes from an order of men, whose interest
is never exactly the same with that of the public, who have generally an interest
to deceive and even oppress the public, and who accordingly have,
upon many occasions, both deceived and oppressed it."
Adam Smith
The Wealth of Nations, 1776
