Price Controls

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• UK households to see their electricity bills rise by £4.30 a year

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 972
  British households will see their electricity bills rise by an average of £4.30 a year to help pay for improvements to the distribution network, the regulator said today.
  4 days ago

• Which Way?

  
  The Unbroken Window — Authority: 431
  Here’s another twisty pretzel anti-market zealots get themselves caught in. Many “progressives” are ardent supporters of anti-trust policy. One part of anti-trust policy is that firms can be doing a “bad thing” by offering prices to the consumers that are “too low.” You read that correctly. So not only ...
  1 week ago

• The Right Minimum Wage Question, by David Henderson

  
  EconLog — Authority: 697
  Like Bryan, I received the same request from the same friend: what question(s) would I want to put on a survey of economists. My response was that I would want the question on the minimum wage asked accurately instead of sloppily. Heres how the issue was posed in the famous 1976 survey that was reported in J. R. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Consumer Reports Lectures Me on Credit Card Regulation

  
  Mike Hammock's Blog — Authority: 109
  I have a subscription to the Consumer Reports website because of the wealth of product information it contains. Occasionally, however, Consumer Reports takes positions on policies, and I nearly always disagree with them (another example: Consumers Union supports higher CAFE standards ; I do not, as a higher gasoline ...
  3 weeks ago

• Arroyo Lifts Oil Price Freeze In Luzon

  
  MyTownTalks — Authority: 535
  AHN Staff Manila, Philippines (AHN) - Following the order by Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo price controls on basic commodities and oil prices are lifted across Luzon. Prices of fuel and basic goods have been placed under government control following the country being battered by two major typhoons in ...
  3 weeks ago

• Drug Makers Raise Prices in Face of Health Care Reform

  
  Joejolly's Weblog — Authority: 137
  The New York Times By DUFF WILSON Published November 15, 2009 Even as drug makers promise to support Washington’s health care overhaul by shaving $8 billion a year off the nation’s drug costs after the legislation takes effect, the industry has been raising its prices at the fastest rate in years. In the last ...
  3 weeks ago

• After electoral losses, Democrats get busy purging

  
  Orange Juice — Authority: 491
  Heavy Breathers get hauled off for their wacko tactics against a man who less than a decade ago was their vice presidential pick. Lets you know how far Left the Left has gone, doesn’t it? Unless you’re going to argue Joe Lieberman has changed… and you don’t have to go back farther than campaign 2000 [...]
  5 weeks ago

• Minimum Morality

  
  The Unbroken Window — Authority: 431
  The economic reasoning behind why rules like the minimum wage or living wage laws are not so helpful is irrefutably solid. But no amount of sound economic thinking seems to work for my students, and that certainly also applies to popular notions of the way the world works. In times like those, perhaps it is ...
  5 weeks ago

• The Vaccine Police

  
  The Unbroken Window — Authority: 431
  Worst Economic Reasoning, Ever. These are the sorts of folks that think they know best how to run your economic lives. The two most egregious points are these: (1) We really are hoping people go on the honor system and let us immunize people in the priority groups,” Southern Nevada Health District spokeswoman ...
  6 weeks ago

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