Tag: price

Are Price Controls Next? – HotAir

Joe Biden is getting desperate, and when people are desperate they do especially stupid things.  In a move that should worry everybody, Biden’s war on “shrinkflation” and “corporate greed” has him inching toward a regime of price controls. You know, the policy that helped the Soviets keep their economy humming along, and that whipped inflation […]

That Reminds Me: Passion at a price

A WHILE ago I waxed lyrical about the magnificent market hall in Budapest. A smaller rival to its charms is the Mercado dos Lavradores, a fruit, vegetable, flower and fish market in Funchal, the capital of Madeira. Unfortunately when we visited ten years ago, an enterprising stallholder remembered the ancient Portuguese greengrocer saying which translates as: ‘An Englishman’s […]