• John Locke Update

    How “price gouging” laws subsidize hoarding

    posted March 24, 2020 by Dr. Roy Cordato
    Public officials at all levels are pleading with consumers not to hoard basic household necessities like toilet paper, paper towels, cleaning, and sanitizing products, or groceries. There are no problems…
  • John Locke Update

    “Too Much Growth” Doesn’t Cause Inflation

    posted February 15, 2018 by Dr. Roy Cordato
    If the supply of oil goes up, the price of oil and gasoline falls. If the supply of oranges goes up, the price of oranges and orange juice goes down.
  • Press Release

    N.C. price-gouging law promotes gas lines, shortages

    posted September 14, 2008
    RALEIGH — Consumers can blame North Carolina’s price-gouging law for the gas lines and shortages appearing in the wake of Hurricane Ike. That’s the assessment of a John Locke Foundation…

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