Karl Marx famously said that history repeats itself first as tragedy, then as farce. Vice President Kamala Harris is bringing that aphorism to life by putting price controls at the center of her ...
Concept for Consumerism, Food and Drink, Trading, Convenience and Shopping issues. Last week, before she accepted the Democratic Party’s nomination for president, Vice President Kamala Harris threw ...
Economists hate the idea of price controls. Democrats are exploring how they can address high food costs that have frustrated voters.
"Government intervention can cut costs in the moment," writes healthcare policy expert Sally Pipes. "But it does so at the expense of future treatments and cures." The Democrats' days in control of ...
Approximately 3.2 million Americans suffering from cancer, heart disease, and other serious or life-threatening diseases benefit from home infusion therapy. As the name suggests, home infusion therapy ...
Blue-State and City Democrats Walk an Insurrectionary Fine Line New Body-Cam Footage Shows Minnesota Shooting from ICE Officer’s Perspective Perhaps a Cynical Reading of the Iranian Uprising Is No ...
Novo Nordisk just announced price cuts for Ozempic and Wegovy, whose list prices as recently as last year were around $1,000 a month. Patients buying directly from the manufacturer will be able to pay ...
Inflation and, more specifically, grocery prices have become a hot election issue. If elected, Vice President Harris has promised controls in order to end “price gouging” by grocery stores. Basic ...
History has a short memory. In recent weeks, as Vice President Kamala Harris’s policy proposals sparked a national conversation about price-controls, that phenomenon is on full display. Price-controls ...
For decades, America’s drug-price debate has centered on a fundamental tension: How do policymakers encourage expensive research and development, while ensuring that companies keep final prices ...
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Allison Schrager is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering economics. A senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, she is author of “An Economist Walks Into a Brothel: And Other ...