When Free Market Pricing is Mistaken for Price Fixing / Price Gouging

in economics •  7 years ago 

Greetings My Esteemed Followers!
There's nothing like a crisis to expose the inner socialist or communist lurking inside most of the uneducated among us.
Trigger warning! Please comment below on your take of the following that were found on FB:
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I agree there should be more refineries for locally produced oil, but government and the NIMBY crowd stand in the way as always, yet point fingers and the "greedy" capitalists that solve supply shortages using free market principles.
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Thanks for the post, good analysis

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