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Dear Editor, THE Leader of the Opposition’s call for price controls is not a serious cost-of-living strategy; it is a policy instrument that, by design, ...

The House of Representatives just passed a resolution condemning the “horrors of socialism” by a 285 to 98 margin. All the no votes were cast by Democrats indicating that a majority of the members ...

A new proposal suggests freezing prices on staple foods — but economists warn price controls could bring shortages and other unintended consequences. Ahead of the 2026 midterms, affordability remains ...

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 ...

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 ...

The author argues that North Carolina's economic success is due to policies that encourage private-sector growth and innovation. Government-imposed price controls, particularly on prescription ...

Price controls introduced at German petrol stations to shield motorists from spiking oil prices amid the Middle East war have had the opposite effect and driven up the average cost of fuel, economists ...

Demonizing greedy bankers and landlords is the last refuge of the poorly polling politician.And, as affordability remains a leading issue among voters, the Trump administration has regularly used ...

The Colorado House has advanced a bill to bar companies from using personal data to set individualized wages and prices. As The Gazette reports, House Bill 26-1210 is a reincarnated version of a ...

Complex problems are rarely solved by a simple stroke of a pen. President Donald Trump's proposal to enact a most-favored-nation policy for drug pricing in the United States will do more harm than ...

Whatever political opposition existed around restricting drug prices through government intervention — and there was quite a lot not so long ago — seems to have largely disappeared. In other words, ...