price control
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He shrank ministries, lifted price controls and widened the peso’s trading bands, cooling triple-digit inflation and stabilizing markets.
President Richard Nixon’s wage and price controls are considered to be one of the worst economic schemes in modern history.
From Barron's
But if the experience of other industries that have faced threats of price controls from the administration is any guide, investors might actually want to consider buying bank stocks.
She helped rein in public spending, stopped enforcing price controls and partially dollarized the economy.
What is understood by most economists, however, is that a federal rate cap would function as a price control for the consumer credit markets.
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