Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

I am not an advocate for government price controls, but it does seem to me that there are circumstances in which very clever people have either observed or created a monopoly for themselves and then used that monopoly power to extort prices that the market would not support if it were actually operating correctly.

01/27/2016

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