Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. James Broughel is an economist focused on the economics of regulation. Shortages are most damaging when they involve basic ...
Experience is life’s greatest teacher. And history shows repeatedly that price controls do not deliver the results their ...
Inflation and, more specifically, grocery prices have become a hot election issue. If elected, Vice President Harris has promised controls in order to end “price gouging” by grocery stores. Basic ...
Mr. Mahoney is an economist and Mr. Ramamurti is a former deputy director of the National Economic Council. Democrats dominated the Nov. 4 elections, but the other big winner was price controls. In ...
"Government intervention can cut costs in the moment," writes healthcare policy expert Sally Pipes. "But it does so at the expense of future treatments and cures." The Democrats' days in control of ...
The success of political slogans often brings forth intellectual defenders, even when the slogans themselves lack merit. Calls to “freeze the rent” and cap electricity prices before this month’s ...
Vice President Kamala Harris has proposed an economic plan, which includes price controls, to fix the problems created during the Biden-Harris administration. The plan involves establishing federal ...
Brian Albrecht is chief economist at the International Center for Law & Economics and co-writes the newsletter Economic Forces. On the 2023 campaign trail, Vice President Kamala Harris’s first major ...
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