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Showing posts with label Perils of price controls. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Perils of price controls. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 17, 2024

Jeffrey A. Tucker: Grocery Rationing within Four Years


There is a lack of public comment and debate about Kamala Harris’s call for price controls on groceries and rents, the most stunning and frightening policy proposal made in my lifetime.

Immediately, of course, people will reply that she is not for price controls as such. It is only a limit on “gouging” (which she variously calls “gauging”) on grocery prices. As for rents, it’s only for larger-scale corporations with many units.