thoughts on so called "price gouging"? Some suggest it helps inefficiencies, and should not be restricted during disasters.
Discussion
High prices are the most-efficient cure for high prices, but we tend to fall to rationing life-sustaining goods that are temporarily short, such as drinking water after a bad hurricane, because we have to bridge the time required for the market to respond.
Tricky.
hoarding and gouging, the weasel words of socialists grandstanding over the misery of misfortune
Would you watch people die of thirst in front of bottles of water?
Property law does not always trump the right to life.
Has nothing to do with socialism. Socialists didn't invent those words.
You can both be right. At some point inflation could be bad enough that everything is a crisis and therefore prices are fixed. Socialism without calling it such, as Churchill said.