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The pain of controlling consumer prices

By XN Iraki

The advocates of price controls either must be suffering from selective amnesia or must have something up their sleeves. Those who lived through the age of price controls in 1970s know its evils and know why eventually prices were freed, left to the "invisible hands of the market" to quote Adam Smith the classical economist.

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