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price control

noun

  1. government regulation of prices by establishing maximum price levels for goods or services, as during a period of inflation.


price control

noun

  1. the establishment and maintenance of maximum price levels for basic goods and services by a government, esp during periods of war or inflation
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Origin of price control1

First recorded in 1910–15
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It stopped short of recommending price controls, but said they remain a possibility, adding parents have been "shouldering the costs" of price increases in the market for years.

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"Harris’ call for price controls, reminiscent of the Jeffersonian intervention approach, is politically astute."

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She has made some arguably progressive campaign proposals, including a federal ban on “price-gouging†by grocery stores; Trump denounced the idea as “Soviet-style price controls.â€

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Former president Donald Trump, at a rally in Pennsylvania, called out Harris’ recent proposal: “After causing catastrophic inflation, Comrade Kamala announced that she wants to institute socialist price controls.â€

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Kernen welcomed Warren by celebrating her speech at the Democratic National Convention, before blasting the Harris campaign’s economic proposal as “price controls, basically.â€

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