Contamination from the Navy's Red Hill underground fuel facility on Oahu has reduced Honolulu's water supply by 20 percent. Water officials are considering a moratorium on new construction to conserve water.
Since the 1960s, planners have convinced many state and regional governments to limit the physical spread of urban areas.
Oil supplies were already tight before petro-state Russia invaded Ukraine.
Elizabeth Warren's bizarre theories about corporate greed driving inflation have made their way into federal law enforcement, it seems.
The idea would benefit central planners and grow the ranks of bureaucrats while making the poor even poorer.
"Greed is constant. If it's greed, how do we explain prices falling?"
Price controls almost never achieve their goal, but Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has decided to utilize them anyway.
Addressing a distortion of the market with another distortion of the market will only make the problem worse.
Bad policy and unpredictable nature are sending food prices through the roof.
The plan would reduce supply while increasing demand, resulting in harmful shortages.
Price controls fail for other products, and liquor is no different.
Plus: The FBI had at least a dozen informants helping put together the plot to kidnap Michigan's governor, price controls fail again, and more.
Don't punish businesses for raising prices during a crisis.
The government tried to stabilize the nation's food supply 80 years ago. Its efforts backfired.
Plus: Mask burning is freedom of speech, New York reaches recreational weed deal, and more...
A new paper finds that the shortages produced by emergency price controls led to more social interactions as people searched for scarce goods. Additional COVID-19 deaths weren't far behind.
Texas officials' rush to enforce price gouging laws during that state's winter storms will only make residents worse off.
A politicized vaccine distribution process intended to take price out of the picture has given the edge to the rich, connected, and powerful.
The Portland City Council has approved an emergency ordinance capping the fees delivery apps like DoorDash and Uber Eats can charge restaurants.
Such laws end up causing more shortages than they solve, especially during a crisis.
Cities are imposing "emergency" regulations capping the fees that delivery services like Uber Eats may charge. That's a mistake.
Q&A with Duke's Michael C. Munger, who also believes that big cities will see rationing and that higher education will never be the same.
What politicians call "gouging" is just supply and demand. Prices rise and fall all the time.
High prices for sought-after goods cause temporary pain, but not as much as government efforts to "help" frustrated consumers.
Instead of repealing tariffs that are raising aluminum prices, politicians are instead trying to lower aluminum prices by legislative fiat.
High prices can bring much-needed supplies into a disaster zone.
Hospitals gamed the system and costs didn’t come down.
Sugar subsidies are welfare for the rich. They cost consumers billions a year.
Price signals ultimately mean more supplies for disaster-struck areas.
Blame the city Board of Supervisors for unusually high hospital bills.
People getting starry eyed about socialism should look to Venezuela for some important warning signs.
Price gouging is not the evil many officials make it out to be.
Politicians condemn price gougers, but students explain why "gouging" is good.
Change drug prices by changing the market.
Keeping up with New York regulations is enough to shut down some businesses.
Dynamic tolling is no more "price gouging" than any time prices go up because of a scarcity of supply.
Venezuelan grocery stores have products shoppers don't want.
From Walmart to Uber to AirBnB, businesses should be lauded for their generosity and effectiveness in the wake of Hurricanes Irma and Harvey.
So-called price gouging helps send important signals to buyers and sellers.
Americans would save some money now, but at the long-run cost of sicker and shorter lives
The unintended consequences to Americans' lives and health would be substantial and bad
Ballot box is the wrong place to debate drug-price intricacies, in California or anywhere else.
Yes. Next question.
Lifting the ban would lower gas prices and boost domestic oil production - Obama wants to keep it.
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