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Back to the Future with Price Controls

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MONDAY, AUGUST 19, 2024
All the people I know wanna be left alone
Some people! I don’t know?
They won’t leave you alone
You gotta be just – be just like them
Biggest gang I know they call the government
Gang is a weapon
That you trade your mind in for
You gotta be just – be just like them
The gang
And the government
No different
– Jane’s Addiction, 1% [1987]

HORNBERGER’S BLOG
August 19, 2024
Back to the Future with Price Controls
Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris is demonstrating why monetary debasement has always been a favorite way for government officials to plunder the citizenry. Rather than focusing on the Federal Reserve as the root cause of prices rising across society, she’s blaming rising food prices on grocery-store owners. Consequently, she says that if she is elected president, she’ll get a federal “anti-gouging” law enacted …
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