price controls

1. Measures, usually temporary, taken by governments to limit price rises in times of rapid inflation.

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A number of states have a controversial answer: price controls.

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Big Pharma has been out of favor with investors on fears of tariffs and price controls.

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With Democrats in total control of Washington, the threat of drug price controls loomed.

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The regulator imposes price controls on the major incumbent suppliers - electricity firm Power NI; SSE Gas in Belfast and the west; and Firmus in the Ten Towns network.

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He cited the president's fixation on tariffs and "constrictions on free enterprise, price controls, trade barriers and whatnot — cartelization of the economy, many very bad things."

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