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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: TimF who wrote (321437)1/17/2007 5:23:30 PM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (1) of 1574485
 
"Trying to impose price controls might work in some highly theoretical situation, but since there are real human being involved it rarely works well in practice."

Works here. We have had anti-profiteering laws that kick in when a hurricane hits for decades and they work well. So it isn't a highly theoretical situation, but real world practice. So you are the one in the ivory tower on this issue.
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