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Price Caps on Electricity Are a Good Idea?
Editor’s note: On July 4, shortly after this article was written, the San Francisco Chronicle ran this front-page headline: “Federal Price Limits Backfire.” Will price controls solve the California electricity crisis? Did price controls solve the oil crisis of the 1970s? Did price controls make apartments easily available in New York City? Of course not. [...]
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