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Episode 84: Price-Gouging Bans Don’t Make Things Cheaper, They Make Them More Scarce

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The Cost of a Dominoes Pizza

CNN's John Sutter says it seems that everybody involved in the North Carolina price-gouging case was stupid. He asks: What were they thinking to say such a thing? And lo and behold people were way dumber than that. They lined up around the block to do it, so I mean everybody should have to pay for that now. We're back to price gouging yet because we've got a hurricane.

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