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> I support price regulation when called for.

When is price regulation ever called for? The only times I can think of are when there is a monopoly, oligopoly, monopsony, oligopsony or significant externalities.

> Laws to crack down on this behavior has popular support, so I won't spend additional time defending the idea in this forum

The popularity of a proposal has very little to do with its appropriateness.



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