Hurricane Harvey has hit Texas and is doing a great deal of damage to both life and property. Which is exactly when we need, positively desire, there to be price gouging, instead of the laws we have against it. “We’ve already found one big retailer that was charging $42 for a case of water,” Paxton told Fox & Friends. Floods could, for example, knock out the municipal water supply, leaving people needing bottled water. We now need some method of rationing that limited and scarce supply over that increased demand.

Source: Forbes August 27, 2017 12:18 UTC