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| | William Baldwin |  | A strong economy causes an increase in the demand for housing; the increased demand for housing drives real-estate prices and rentals through the roof. And then affordable housing becomes completely inaccessible. |
| | Michael Badnarik | | Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious criminals enter the market to make astronomical profits, and addicts rob and steal to get money to pay the inflated prices for their drugs. |
| | Peter Barnes | | There is, in fact, a win-win solution. When people talk about the costs that we might have to pay, what they mean is that energy prices will go up because we won't be allowed to burn as much fossil fuels as we are now; that we'll pay more at the gas pump and more for electricity and more for everything that embodies some amount of fossil fuel. |
| | John Bates Clark | | It is a familiar fact that a wholesome fear of outside competition holds trusts in check. It sets a limit on their action in curtailing production and raising prices. Up to a limit this policy may be pursued; if it is carried farther new competitors appear and special profits are in danger of vanishing. |
| | John Bates Clark | | We noted, as the worst abuse connected with a genuine monopoly, a mislocating of labor, and a reduction of the social standard of its earnings. If a trust cannot greatly raise prices it cannot greatly mislocate labor. |
| | John Bates Clark | | When, in any business, it shall be found that, in spite of everything, competition dies, or that some of our industries are condemned to inefficiency, it will then be time to change our policy, to recognize monopoly in these cases as a necessary fact and to take the logical next step of regulating prices. |
| | John Bates Clark | | Where a competitor has secured a local trade, it can ruin him by flooding his market with goods sold below the cost of producing them. In the interim the trust can maintain itself from the returns that come from other localities. If the low prices had to be universal, the powerful corporation would ruin itself as rapidly as it would its rival. |
| | Bill Cosby | | People will frighten you about a graduation...They use words you don't hear often... "And we wish you Godspeed." It is a warning, Godpeed. It means you are no longer welcome here at these prices. |
| | Pete Domenici | | I expect an energy bill to increase and diversify supply and stabilize energy prices - not drive up energy costs in one part of the country to subsidize energy in another region. |
| | Pete Domenici | | Instead of begging OPEC to drop its oil prices, let's use American leadership and ingenuity to solve our own energy problems. |
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