If someone suspects price-gouging during Hurricane Irma, they can call the Attorney General's Price Gouging Hotline at 1-866-966-7226.
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Among the questions asked were how Amazon tracks coronavirus-related price gouging on its platform, how many price-gouging warnings Amazon has issued to third-party sellers, how many listings Amazon has removed or suspended and what steps Amazon is taking to prevent price gouging.
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California Attorney General Xavier Becerra on Wednesday issued an alert to consumers reminding them of the state's price gouging laws and other states have similar approaches to price gouging.
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"People have accused us of gouging, but it's not gouging — if you want to be first in line, the best way to do that is to be a subscriber," Ms. Rutter said.
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PRICE-GOUGING As residents sought to secure last-minute flights out of the dangerous Category 5 storm's path, airlines faced accusations of trying to capitalize on the panic and chaos by price gouging.
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There is only so much gouging that ratepayers will take.
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Fans don't want to think their favorite artist is gouging.
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Others wanted government measures to stop price gouging on masks.
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They advised the companies to take on strong policies that deter price gouging, trigger protections from price gouging outside of the case of an emergency and maintain a way for consumers to report potential violations.
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Price gouging like this in the specialty drug market is outrageous.
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Despite the gouging, the government is faced with a chronic deficit.
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She attacks the trucker, gouging his neck with one clean shot.
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The bet paid off when Valeant was exposed for price gouging.
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With a hurricane comes the reality of price-gouging for essentials.
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How about letting our economy really recover before gouging us again.
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Trump has an opportunity to stop drug company monopoly price-gouging.
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Price gouging and tax dodging is the drug industry's business model.
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On second thought, maybe 25 cents a mile is price gouging.
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The government could oversee to prevent price gouging and shoddy practice.
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US hates him for a different reason: price-gouging sick people.
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Speculation and stockpiling begets price gouging, more speculation, and more stockpiling.
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Amazon is also cracking down on price-gouging of certain products.
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Many U.S. states have laws in place to prevent price gouging.
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Indeed, 34 states have anti-gouging laws meant to protect consumers.
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Pennsylvania and Texas attorneys general announced price gouging protections last week.
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It might as well use those powers to fight price gouging.
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Indeed, 34 states have anti-gouging laws meant to protect consumers.
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" He said cases of gouging will be hit "like a hammer.
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Desperate overcrowding like this begets famine, disease, price-gouging, violent crime.
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But headbutting, biting, gouging and kicking a man when he's down?
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And charging 340 percent over the Medicare allowable rate is price gouging.
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So far, they've found 12 sellers who were price-gouging on water.
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Clinton accused Shkreli of price gouging and mentioned him in stump speeches.
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Since its services cost nothing, Facebook says, it is not gouging users.
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But as pricing is increasingly automated, the dangers include gouging and discrimination.
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Schumpeter has estimated the scale of gouging across the health-care system.
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I feel that the government should investigate if they are price-gouging.
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Any reason your store in Lake Mary Florida is gouging for water?
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Resolving the issue of unethical price gouging also requires prosecution of offenders.
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Mylan's price gouging is only the latest example of a disturbing trend.
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There could be even more insidious side effects of anti-gouging laws.
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There are numerous examples of price gouging on other platforms as well.
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The good news ... everyone we spoke to said they're not price gouging.
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Mr. Nicas concludes: Mr. Colvin does not believe he was price gouging.
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Mr. Nicas concludes: Mr. Colvin does not believe he was price gouging.
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The Rhythm Section Rated R for bludgeoning, gouging, shooting and so on.
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But some under-the-radar firms are still acquiring patents and immediately gouging.
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Airlines like Delta were called out Wednesday for what looked like price gouging.
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As of Monday, authorities have received 143 complaints of price-gouging, CNBC reported.
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"Price gouging during a state of emergency is ILLEGAL," an NBC reporter tweeted.
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Maryland passed penalties for "price gouging," but the law has been found unconstitutional.
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"We're gonna fight for rules to stop prescription drug price-gouging," Schumer said.
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Artists and promoters doing this price gouging themselves was not on the docket.
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Like the Greeks, Pankration had no rules, beyond no eye-gouging and biting.
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Today, President-elect Trump made the answer quite clear — no more price gouging.
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The monopolies of the past engaged in price-gouging and became less inventive.
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Congress was rightly enraged and opened yet another inquiry into pharmaceutical price gouging.
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And while I'm encouraging selfishness, I should encourage another kind of price-gouging.
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At the same time, my Freedom from Price Gouging Act will save money.
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"There is no place for price gouging on Amazon," a spokeswoman told Reuters.
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"I'm crying out asking Congress to review the pharmaceutical price gouging," Worsham said.
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Corruption consumed the BIA, and basic food items were subject to price gouging.
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Among other things, the FCC protects against fraudulent billing, price gouging, and privacy violations.
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Much outrage has been caused by a price-gouging scheme for an AIDS medicine.
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But officials are still worried about the effects of price gouging on their communities.
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Amid accusations of price gouging, Mylan CEO Heather Bresch testified before Congress in September.
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She also provides the pharmaceutical industry's price gouging of lifesaving medicine as another example.
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Price-gouging, he declared in the wake of Hurricanes Irma and Harvey, is good.
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Who's going to ask AbbVie CEO Richard A. Gonzalez about his price gouging today?
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Gillibrand, as president, would create a "Pharma Czar" and prosecute companies for price gouging.
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Amazon said it's deleted over 1 million listings over price gouging or false advertising.
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By Friday morning, Mr. Trump essentially accused the capital city's government of price gouging.
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At the Senate hearing on Tuesday, Mr. Ramos fended off accusations of price gouging.
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Thankfully, the Republican-controlled Congress finally stepped in to crash this price-gouging party.
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China's Supreme Court said recently that price gouging could be punished with prison time.
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While it is violent, it does have rules — including no biting, spitting or gouging.
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Back in September, Clinton's tweet about "price gouging" by drug-makers sent biotech stocks tumbling.
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Local officials reckon this gouging is preferable to paying doctors better wages from government funds.
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Maryland Citizens' Health Initiative will add an option to report price gouging to its website.
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Also, to be clear, Shkreli is not serving time for anything related to price gouging.
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Basic economics would suggest the locals will engage in a little bit of price gouging.
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" "Trump supporting, driver gouging, and revolting treatment of women engineers (seriously, go look it up).
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He said drug companies are "creating their own hurricanes" and gouging consumers with the relief.
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Once he was notorious for price-gouging, Shkreli made alternating overtures between egalitarianism and greed.
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Last year, Hillary Clinton said she would take on "price gouging" in the pharmaceutical industry.
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But the CEO is still an unlikely critic of price gouging in the pharmaceutical industry.
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Valeant has drawn scorn for its drug pricing strategy, which critics liken to price-gouging.
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The company reiterated that on Thursday, saying consumers should report price gouging to Bondi's office.
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She said the kangaroo knocked her to the ground, gouging the back of her leg.
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State Attorney General Letitia James ordered two price-gouging stores to immediately cease the practice.
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Arbitration clauses have derailed claims of financial gouging, discrimination in car sales and unfair fees.
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Some are even taking advantage of the situation and gouging the prices of necessary supplies.
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She also signed an executive order to freeze the prices of necessities to prevent gouging.
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There was a certain amount of focus placed on reports of price gouging and looting.
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Last week, Clorox stopped advertising on Amazon as it replenishes supplies and avoid price gouging.
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Officials also implemented price controls on lentils and sardines to ensure that no price gouging.
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Amazon announced Monday that it has booted 3,900 sellers off its platform for price gouging.
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"There is no place for price gouging on Amazon," a company spokesman told Business Insider.
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The emergency proclamation includes provisions to protect people against price gouging, particularly for medical supplies.
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"There is no place for price gouging on Amazon," a spokesperson said in a statement.
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The mob often targets "rats" by cutting out their tongue and gouging out their eyes.
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It's also removed thousands of products for price gouging, though this remains an ongoing battle.
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Several lawmakers asked Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao to look into consumers' complaints of price gouging.
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The old-fashioned phrase is "price gouging," and we shouldn't be a part of it.
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Meanwhile, look at the price-gouging these drug corporations engage in to amass exorbitant profits.
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Some airlines have taken advantage of natural disasters by price gouging passengers in impacted areas.
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They've blamed price gouging scandals on a "broken system" and claim to want to reform.
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In 2017, jurors decided to convict Martin Shkreli, the pharmaceutical executive notorious for price gouging.
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"We agree with Senator Markey—there is no place for price gouging on Amazon and that's why our teams are monitoring our store 24/7 and have already removed tens of thousands of offers for attempted price gouging," a company spokesperson told The Hill Wednesday.
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Are the airlines price gouging people who are trying to get out of Hurricane Irma's way?
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Still, many people say that's not enough and have accused Mylan of greed and price gouging.
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The penalty for price gouging in Texas is a fine of up to $20,000 per infraction.
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She also has somewhere to store the material she collects, safe from thieves and gouging policemen.
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The dollar followed, gouging out a 50.903-month trough against a basket of currencies at 250.90.
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Becerra has encouraged anyone with information on potential price gouging to report it to his office.
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Done wrong, the above options could feel like Spotify gouging artists to reach their own fans.
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Eye-gouging became the ultimate finish in rough-and-tumble, with men being disfigured for life.
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Shkreli is currently on trial for defrauding investors, though the case is unrelated to price gouging.
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Now, media reports say that executive bonuses may have played a role in the price-gouging.
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Price-gouging is certainly a problem, and Mylan is the new "it" kid for corporate greed.
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Price gouging laws aside, one would think it certainly wouldn't be a cheap time to buy.
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That leaves plenty of time to profit off of price-gouging before any lives are saved.
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There is a small army of people who aren't putting up with the gouging any longer.
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Like Mylan gouging patients and government health care programs with a 500 percent markup on EpiPens.
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Most of the state laws broadly define the scope of products subject to price gouging laws.
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"There is no place for price gouging on Amazon," the company told The Guardian last week.
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Do you work at Amazon and know more about the company's approach to preventing price-gouging?
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But 24 percent of Americans have seen price gouging on high-demand items, according to CBA.
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CBA requests that the DOJ work with federal, state and industry partners to counteract price gouging.
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Amazon didn't give specific figures for how many listings it removed or suspended for price gouging.
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The dozens of earthmovers gouging the soil on the outskirts of Wuhan attested to that strength.
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When a devastating hurricane like Irma or Harvey arrives, stories about price gouging inevitably spread quickly.
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She warned businesses against price gouging after saying there have been reports of tent prices rising.
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Some liberal analysts blame welfare reform for gouging a huge hole in the social safety net.
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Another installment focuses on Valeant, a drug company that dramatically marked up its prices, gouging consumers.
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The company was fielding criticism for an array of issues including price gouging and accounting irregularities.
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" An Amazon spokesperson told CNBC in a statement: "We agree with Senator Markey—there is no place for price gouging on Amazon and that's why our teams are monitoring our store 24/7 and have already removed tens of thousands of offers for attempted price gouging.
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"But part of it is actually a practice that we refer to as price gouging," Makary said.
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The photos went viral as an example of predatory price-gouging in the wake of Hurricane Harvey.
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There have been over 550 complaints so far about price gouging on everything from food to gasoline.
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Of course, knowing the list prices and which manufacturers are price-gouging is only the first step.
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"Today we will finally declare that the days of insulin price gouging are over in Colorado," Gov.
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When a seller spikes the prices of goods, it's called price-gouging, which is illegal in Florida.
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There were bribes to cross checkpoints, price-gouging and regular merchants jacking up prices for scarce supplies.
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Now, as Irma comes closing in, many are urging the public to report instances of price gouging.
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The company was accused of gouging patients, but there was little introspection about the role of government.
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Consumers were outraged by this price-gouging and Mylan executives had to testify in front of Congress.
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With less regulation, it could encourage companies that are practically running monopolies to start price-gouging consumers.
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But unchecked, automated systems could send prices for staples like water skyrocketing after a disaster: price gouging.
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This feels like price gouging/fixing as most people won't be able to forgo filling this prescription.
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I can make the same argument for gouging out a prisoner's eyes or dousing him with acid.
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The time has come to restore fairness in this system by ending the gouging of American patients.
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His government confiscated 3.8 million toys from importer Kreisel, accusing the company of hoarding and price gouging.
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Chevron has said several times this week it has no tolerance for price gouging at its stations.
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"That's about $US110,000 worth of the drug," Williamson told the publication, taking into account Shkreli's price gouging.
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A tweet from Hillary Clinton in September 2015 about "price gouging" caused the sector to sell off.
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It also allows the state to take steps to prevent price gouging on things like hand sanitizer.
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The government is mounting a campaign against price-gouging, periodically ordering shopkeepers to sell at lower prices.
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What they mainly did was tear down walls to open up rooms, inventively gouging the original mass.
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DealBook When a devastating hurricane like Irma or Harvey arrives, stories about price gouging inevitably spread quickly.
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Amazon has since pledged to crack down on price gouging and has suspended many sellers for overcharging.
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It recently said it's removing thosuands of high-priced items to prevent price gouging on its site.
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They were told that these companies were price gouging; the state would not be offering more money.
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Bansemer saluted Amazon, which recently removed 1 million coronavirus-related listings for misleading claims and price gouging.
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The company also said it is assisting state attorneys general in prosecuting extreme cases of price-gouging.
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Most US states have laws against merchants price gouging products like water and medical supplies during emergencies.
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Amazon is cracking down on price gouging and products that make false coronavirus claims on its marketplace.
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"There is no place for price gouging on Amazon," an Amazon spokesperson told CNBC in a statement.
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Consumer watchdogs warned against illegal price gouging for such essentials as generators, batteries, flashlights and hotel lodging.
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My Freedom from Price Gouging Act would protect patients from unreasonable price spikes and save taxpayer dollars.
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The price gouging law will be in place until Governor Roy Cooper lifts the state of emergency.
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They're not gouging their shareholders or playing Catch Me If You Can with their board of directors.
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At that time, Clinton had detailed her plans as president to address price gouging by drug companies.
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Our biggest states are poorly managed and are gouging its citizens with high taxation and unsustainable debt.
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Another equated surge pricing with price gouging, and suggested that the mayor's proposal would lead to anarchy.
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On Twitter, De Blasio accused the restaurant, located on 40th Street and Seventh Avenue, of gouging prices.
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I'm not interested in gouging my audience in something I don't believe benefits me or them at all.
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This would leave the FCC powerless to prohibit fraudulent billing, price gouging and practices that violate consumers' privacy.
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That's why Hiram and his hilariously-named Gargoyle Gang are still gouging small businesses like Ronnie's Bonne Nuit.
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This is another example of media hype around a faux well-spring of public activism around price gouging.
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In fact, allergy sufferers were filing complaints with the FTC about Mylan's price gouging as early as 2012.
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This led Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton to say she would take action against "price gouging" if elected.
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Despite the outrage over that maneuver, gouging like that is standard operating procedure in the ruthless pharmaceutical world.
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Senators on Wednesday called for action to address spikes in drug prices that they said are "gouging" patients.
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This summer, public outrage erupted over price-gouging for EpiPens, the go-to treatment for severe allergic reactions.
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Amazon wouldn't be punished for price gouging, since it generally pursues low prices at the expense of profits.
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For instance, the price-gouging penalty spearheaded by Blumenthal doesn't stop drugs from having high initial list prices.
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The company has also been accused of fraud and price gouging and has witnessed its top executives depart.
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You can report price gouging by calling 1-877-5-NO-SCAM or filing a complaint at www.ncdoj.gov.
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They got none of that, although the legislation aims to protect them from price-gouging on coronavirus tests.
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Many have wondered whether or not Artifact's reliance on the Steam Marketplace is an invitation to price gouging.
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Over the past 2128 years, the rents demanded by landlords for clusters have been tantamount to price gouging.
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Price-gouging is a topic that comes up a lot when talking about Discogs and the vinyl market.
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Google, Amazon and Facebook aren't like the Standard Oil or AT&T of old, gouging consumers on price.
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But in 1888, the blizzard caused coal prices to soar, due to high demand and price gouging speculators.
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Price gouging isn't a new phenomenon on the web, but it's likely to continue as the coronavirus spreads.
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How much responsibility do online retailers like Amazon and eBay have to prevent price gouging during a crisis?
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How much responsibility do online retailers like Amazon and eBay have to prevent price gouging during a crisis?
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"There are some jagoffs who are buying masks and selling them on eBay and price gouging," he said.
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"It's gouging," said Ms. Lopez, a retired nurse administrator from Athens, Georgia who blames insurers and drug makers.
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Several attorneys general said price gouging complaints could be difficult to prove, especially at times when demand spikes.
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President Trump signed an executive order Monday to stop price gouging and the hoarding of necessary medical supplies.
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"There is no place for price gouging on Amazon," an Amazon spokesperson wrote in an email to Mashable.
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And though Martin Shkreli may be the public face of drug-price gouging, Valeant was the real pioneer.
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But that is not how I'd characterize Wednesday's in-depth account of price gouging among prescription drug makers.
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Patient advocates say price transparency gives patients more power when selecting care and would counteract industry price gouging.
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And the real outrage isn't just over gouging over special event rates at hotel listings or on Airbnb.
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And Mylan's response to consumers and the government about its price gouging has quite literally been go fuck yourself.
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Drug pricing has become a lightning rod for criticism with several drugmakers coming under federal investigation for price gouging.
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Mylan, the maker of EpiPen, did absolutely nothing to improve the product while it engaged in this price gouging.
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Medicare isn't legally allowed to negotiate drug prices, leading to extreme price gouging by drug companies across the board.
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If there is a "gross disparity" between the prior price and the current charge, it is considered price-gouging.
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What is unknown is whether that would extend to net neutrality and other anti-consumer practices like price gouging.
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Martin Shrekli, the price-gouging pharmaceutical exec and all-around cultural troll, can add convicted felon to his resume.
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There's been multiple beheadings, torture, eye-gouging, pregnant-belly stabbing, face-peeling, penis warts, death-by-hound and flaying.
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Dani works in the pharmaceutical industry, and explains that she sees firsthand the mismanagement, price gouging, and rampant unethicality.
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And over the past year, Valeant has been accused of all kinds of shady practices, price gouging, channel stuffing.
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A Florida woman was arrested for allegedly killing her mother and gouging out her eyes while high on drugs.
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Prisoner advocates say that services providing email services to correctional facilities are simply following the same price-gouging formula.
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It was pretty ridiculous and violent, featuring alleged ball slapping and some eye gouging, which was caught on video.
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"Places like this feel less price gouging – it is cheap for London and the quality is high," he said.
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"The outrageous, unconscionable and immoral high prices set by Defendant is nothing more than price gouging," the complaint says.
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Mylan and CEO Heather Bresch are just one example of price gouging, price fixing and collusion among pharmaceutical companies.
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Lower priced drugs should also be selectively imported from European Union countries in response to price gouging or shortages.
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A petition to Congress protesting the price increase, called "Stop the EpiPen Price Gouging," has emerged on social media.
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Drug pricing has become a lightening rod for criticism with several drugmakers coming under federal investigation for price gouging.
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Poor policy and pharmaceutical price-gouging have blocked the way, making critical drugs a luxury rather than an imperative.
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Calls out counterfeiting and price gouging Roman said 3M will not increase prices for respirators despite the surging demand.
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The move is meant to discourage users from price gouging and taking advantage of people during the coronavirus crisis.
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And its findings suggest that Amazon may, in fact, be in violation of several states' anti-price-gouging laws.
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In its response, Amazon said it was aggressively enforcing its fair pricing policy and removing examples of price gouging.
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Last week, eBay introduced a blanket ban of sales of face masks and hand sanitizer to prevent price gouging.
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Bill Lee (R) declared a state of emergency on March 12, which put the price gouging law into place.
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The mayor also warned against price gouging by retailers, saying the city imposed more than 28500 fines on Monday.
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This is one of the first reports of a business price-gouging in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
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I'm competing with California and Illinois and Florida," he said, adding that price gouging has become "a tremendous problem.
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Barr said the Department of Justice (DOJ) had seen potential evidence of hoarding and price gouging amid the pandemic.
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Other ecommerce platforms are also confronting problems related to the coronavirus pandemic, from supply chain disruptions to price gouging.
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Amazon has taken action to limit price gouging and removed more than 1 million products for making misleading claims.
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Chinese officials have also received complaints about price gouging and hoarding of highly sought after products, according to Reuters.
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Critics argue that the differential only exists because providers can balance the discounted public price by gouging private insurers.
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He wasn't accused of beheading anybody — though he was accused of gouging a dude's eyes out with a stick.
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Wired reports that Amazon is attempting to stop vendors from engaging in price gouging as demand hits new heights.
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Since the outbreak, Chinese officials have received at least 274 complaints about price-gouging and hoarding, according to Reuters.
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Nothing the president or Big Pharma has done shows meaningful commitment to stopping drug corporations from price-gouging patients.
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Shkreli is best known for a 2015 price-gouging scandal involving a decades-old drug that his company acquired.
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Wyden (D-OR) discussed price gouging people who depend on medication, noting the severe impact this has on seniors.
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Prices in Florida have also stabilized, with a state of emergency declaration there limiting price increases to prevent gouging.
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There, the local police chief, Lynwood Shull, bludgeoned him with a blackjack, gouging his eyes and permanently blinding him.
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While these measures suggest there's finally movement on the problem of insulin price gouging, there are several catches to consider.
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Far from gouging consumers, many of their services are free (users pay, in effect, by handing over yet more data).
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This price-gouging was disguised as the newly implemented "superstar pricing," raising the cost of albums from $240 to $9.98.
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The multiplicity of blades reflected the fecundity of nature, which he would strive to reproduce with ever-more-delicate gouging.
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Similarly, the authors used surveys to show that people find practices like price gouging in the wake of disasters unfair.
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More importantly, where are their policies blocking them from what they'd be calling "price gouging" if it were anyone else?
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"We remain committed to pursuing efforts to eliminate price gouging and to safeguarding Marylanders' access to prescription drugs," he said.
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They require index funds simultaneously to be uncritical sheep-like investors and ruthless top-hatted capitalists devoted to gouging consumers.
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Their net margins of 11%, less than restaurants and one-fifth those of railways, do not exactly scream price gouging.
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Guilty of market manipulations, price gouging price fixing, abuse anti trust laws, violations Sherman and clayton acts, RICO, fraud, etc.
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We thought Hillary Clinton was going to be tough on drug prices, she talked extensively about gouging in the market.
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In a blogpost on Monday, Airbnb said hotels are attacking them because they want to "keep price gouging" their customers.
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The immediate outrage centered on the clear appearance of price gouging by generic pharmaceutical firm Mylan, the manufacturer of EpiPens.
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That approach, widely condemned on Capitol Hill as "price-gouging," has been made famous by Shkreli's former company, Turing Pharmaceuticals.
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Those that are pre-approved would be able to help the United States respond swiftly to price gouging or shortages.
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Health care was the top issue in the midterm elections, making drug company price-gouging a natural subject of inquiry.
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A photo of the display went viral this week, amid allegations of price gouging in the wake of the Harvey.
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Some states have laws against price gouging, and there's currently one in effect for North Carolina ahead of Hurricane Florence.
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Civica Rx is now up to 18 medications, helping health organizations immunize against shortages, avoid price gouging and save lives.
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Gretchen Whitmer signed an order outlawing price gouging of items like cleansing and disinfecting supplies that are in high demand.
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It has also had to deal with sellers engaging in price-gouging for essential items that are in short support.
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As fears of a novel coronavirus epidemic swell worldwide, online platforms have scrambled to stop price gouging and health misinformation.
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Amazon has also tried to stop sellers from drastically raising prices on health care goods amid accusations of price gouging.
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An Amazon spokesperson did not provide comment on the letter and pointed to an earlier blog post on price gouging.
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On Monday President Trump signed an executive order specifically banning price gouging and hoarding of medical items like face masks.
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On Twitter, many customers accused airlines of price-gouging as one-way tickets out of Florida were upward of $1,000.
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On Sunday, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that a hardware store in Midtown Manhattan had been fined for price gouging.
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Businesses found to be taking advantage of coronavirus fears by price gouging sanitary items can be fined up to $500.
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To report, potential price gouging in North Carolina, call 1-877-5-NO-SCAM or file a complaint at www.ncdoj.gov.
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The charges are unrelated to the accusations of price-gouging that the former CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals faced last fall.
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A tweet that went viral earlier this week sparked outrage over suspected price gouging by airlines of Hurricane Irma evacuees.
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The bill, if passed, would penalize pharmaceuticals that increase their prices at a rate faster than inflation, deterring price gouging.
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She asked that people who witness price gouging take photos of the establishment's name and the price of the item.
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Notwithstanding the value of FBOs, there are some who claim they are gouging their customers and undertaking other unfair practices.
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Those may be isolated instances of price gouging, but they illustrate a serious, real-world pricing problem in prescription drugs.
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Source: CamelCamelCamelThe PC gaming community is flooding social media and Reddit with thousands of angry posts, over the price gouging.
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The CEO also said that he followed through on his promise to stem the outcry surrounding Valeant's alleged price gouging.
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Amy KlobucharAmy KlobucharHillicon Valley: Coronavirus deal includes funds for mail-in voting | Twitter pulled into fight over virus disinformation | State AGs target price gouging | Apple to donate 10M masks State AGs urge online retailers to crack down on coronavirus price gouging Biden's general election strategy comes into focus MORE (D-Minn.) said in a statement.
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"We will not tolerate price gouging in this time of exceptional need, and we will take aggressive action to stop it," Attorney General Herbert Slatery III of Tennessee said in the statement Under Tennessee law, the attorney general's office can "put a stop to price gouging and seek refunds for consumers," according to the release.
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Concerns about wildfire-fueled economic opportunism extends to price gouging displaced residents on everything from hotel rooms to rising rental prices.
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This would mean that the FCC would be powerless to address, among other things, fraudulent billing, price gouging, and privacy violations.
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We hear them spew a steady mantra of terms like "price gouging," and "corporate greed" whenever they go after those industries.
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The state's rent regulations have their roots in the 1940s when lawmakers sought to prevent price gouging during a housing shortage.
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The sector has not recovered since Clinton's comments last year that she would take on "price gouging" in the pharmaceutical industry.
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Pharmaceuticals were once even more loathed than the banks after political attention turned their attention to the issue of price gouging.
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They beat the 14-year-old literally to a pulp before gouging out one eye with a penknife and shooting him.
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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has accused drugmakers of "price-gouging" and pledged to cap consumers' monthly spending, among other measures.
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The Transportation Department is authorized to investigate reports of price gouging, and said this week it would look into such reports.
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On Wednesday, the New York State Attorney General's office announced it had investigated upstate cab drivers for price gouging asylum seekers.
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The business of price gouging and non-transparent pricing is now eroding the trust between the medical profession and the public.
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I think, again, it could help to expose abuses in different areas because clearly the banks do a lot of gouging.
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In the case of price gouging, for instance, federal law allows the government to override patent protection in exchange for compensation.
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Fortunately, there is momentum in Washington to hold brand-name drug companies accountable for gaming the patent system and gouging patients.
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However, forcing health care providers to stop price gouging is a viable solution to the continually rising costs of health care.
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More worthy overall is the episode with the trial that led to the Red Viper's eye-gouging in the first place.
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These gangs also have a major role in providing private tankers, which are all illegal, making people liable to price gouging.
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When it comes to Valor, the only thing worse than price gouging is refusing to answer for your role in it.
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While it's not entirely clear what constitutes price-gouging on Amazon, sellers should be careful not to get their account suspended.
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"Price gouging is a clear violation of our policies, unethical, and in some areas, illegal," Amazon said in a recent statement.
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Patrick (Florida): Do anti-price gouging laws apply to all products or only certain products, and how are those products defined?
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Top Democrats also discussed the possibility of expanding Medicaid, creating additional price-gouging protections and shoring up local transit and Amtrak.
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Amazon, Walmart, eBay and Etsy are among the online platforms that have been hit with price gouging or misleading medical products.
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Amazon, eBay, Walmart and Etsy have all struggled to curb price gouging and products that make unverified claims about the coronavirus.
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There is a crisis on, national unity is the order of the day, and public shame will keep away price-gouging.
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The attorney general in Mr. Colvin's home state, Tennessee, sent investigators to his home to look into the suspected price-gouging.
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We think that's because landlords know that it's going to be really hard to find other housing so they're price gouging.
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"What we're hearing and seeing right now is an uptick in price gouging reports," said Connecticut Attorney General William Tong (D).
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Moody's office said Monday that about 40 percent of the price gouging complaints her office had received came from online offers.
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The sites each contain plenty of listings at higher price points, but there is no evidence of price gouging, Airbnb said.
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EBay has stepped up its efforts to prevent price gouging by banning all face masks and hand sanitizers from its site.
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In a statement to CNN, an Amazon spokesperson said removal is part of its company policy to discourage price-gouging sellers.
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"We've been dealing with price-gouging issues [and] with potential scams with people trying to donate to legitimate charities," she said.
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Hurricane Irma has yet to hit Florida, but price gouging is already underway, the state's attorney general told CNBC on Friday.
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Managers and workers were arrested, accused of hoarding or price gouging or, in many cases, of offenses yet to be determined.
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"It begins to focus attention on what so many of my constituents already know the problem is, which is price gouging."
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Compressed natural gas prices have surged 65 percent since early November, prompting government officials to warn last week against price gouging.
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Amy KlobucharAmy KlobucharHillicon Valley: Coronavirus deal includes funds for mail-in voting | Twitter pulled into fight over virus disinformation | State AGs target price gouging | Apple to donate 22020M masks State AGs urge online retailers to crack down on coronavirus price gouging Biden's general election strategy comes into focus MORE (D-Minn.) introduced a new bill alongside Sens.
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Amy KlobucharAmy KlobucharHillicon Valley: Coronavirus deal includes funds for mail-in voting | Twitter pulled into fight over virus disinformation | State AGs target price gouging | Apple to donate 220006M masks State AGs urge online retailers to crack down on coronavirus price gouging Biden's general election strategy comes into focus MORE (D-Miss.) brings nothing that Harris doesn't — without minority status.
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Mylan became a household name to anyone with severe allergies after it was accused of price-gouging in the summer of 2016.
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The controversial company's stock has plunged 85 percent in the past year, amid accusations of price gouging, channel stuffing and accounting irregularities.
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O shares tumbled 4813 percent after short-seller Citron Research called the pharmacy benefit manager the "real culprit" in drug price gouging.
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It uses rules like the "24 hour rule," weather warnings, and airline compliance with laws against price gouging to find cheaper tickets.
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Guilty of market manipulations, price gouging price fixing, abuse anti trust laws, violations Sherman and clayton acts, loan sharks, RICO, fraud, etc.
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Muthart was found gouging out her own eyes with her hands outside of a church in Anderson, South Carolina, on February 6.
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Bottom line: Profits for private equity, price-gouging for the kid who wants 15 minutes on the phone with her incarcerated parent.
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And given the likelihood of profit-gouging, there's no guarantee it even has a net benefit for workers and communities over time.
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In its report Tuesday, Airbnb said these instances of price gouging are most present at sports events, college graduations and — unfortunately — tragedies.
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Ontario's change in tune after more than 100 years of prohibition says quite a bit about price gouging in the concert industry.
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Australia's largest commercial bank, Commonwealth Bank and AMP have also been sued by investors over the revelations, including fee gouging and profiteering.
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It is clear that price gouging is not limited to newly developed or expensive biologic/designer drugs even the price of insulin.
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Remarkably, they are defending our current system that allows predatory price gouging of out-of-network care delivered at in-network hospitals.
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In addition to Hickey and Mallon, another seven people are wanted by police for alleged ties to the ticket price-gouging scheme.
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Earlier this month, Amazon said it pulled more than 1 million products for price gouging or falsely advertising effectiveness against the coronavirus.
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The Associated Press (AP) reviewed a price gouging report from Maine, where single rolls of toilet paper were being sold for $10.
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The declaration will allow Bowser to request federal funding to address the crisis as well as prevent price gouging for medical treatments.
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State governors can allocate resources, tap state funds, make emergency regulations, prohibit price-gouging, and waive or suspend laws impeding effective responses.
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In Missouri, Attorney General Eric Schmitt (R) said Friday his office had reached a deal with Amazon to monitor potential price gouging.
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Due to this rapid growth, multiple organizations voiced disapproval over the company's pursuit of the FDA's orphan status, citing price-gouging concerns.
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Thermometers are selling for hundreds of dollars on Amazon as the online retailer seeks to curb price-gouging during the coronavirus epidemic.
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Thermometers are selling for hundreds of dollars on Amazon as the online retailer tries to curb price-gouging during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Last October, Vice uncovered a nationwide scam that exploited guests by switching their housing last-minute and gouging them for higher prices.
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In Texas, officials for Attorney General Ken Paxton's office reported hundreds of cases of price gouging in the wake of Hurricane Harvey.
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If that's not enough, research from Professor Darryl Jones of Griffith University has indicated that the eye-gouging birds remember their victims.
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At the time, Whole Foods was struggling to grow same-store sales as it bounced back from being accused of price gouging.
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Victor Kylymar, the founder of one — Kyiv FREE couch — told the BBC he was "shocked and ashamed" by the hotels' price gouging.
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Gouging a road through the Tongass will have the same effect, as vegetation on either side struggles to cope with the exposure.
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There was a run on gasoline and bottled water, and the attorney general's office was investigating hundreds of complaints of price gouging.
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Shkreli's pricing tactics, which have been mirrored by companies like Valeant Pharmaceuticals, have become the target of congressional investigations into price-gouging.
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The North Carolina attorney general's office has received more than 500 complaints of price gouging -- including for hotel rooms, gas and water.
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In July it had pledged to postpone price rises in response to Donald Trump's rebuke of the pharmaceutical industry for alleged price-gouging.
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Shares of TransDigm shed as much as 13 percent Friday after Andrew Left's Citron Research released a report accusing it of price gouging.
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The FCC would be powerless to prohibit anti-consumer practices by ISPs like fraudulent billing, price gouging and practices that violate consumer privacy.
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Martin Shkreli is best known for price-gouging HIV patients, being charged with securities fraud, and smirking about it in front of Congress.
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We should be implementing anti-gouging rent caps, and in California, we need to reform the Costa–Hawkins law, which limits rent control.
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Gouging people with traffic tickets and criminal convictions is an easy way for the state, counties, and municipalities to collect lots of money.
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Residents also lamented price increases on high-demand items, although Florida law prohibits price gouging in essentials such as food, water and gas.
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On February 27th the Fair Trade Commission met with three toilet-paper suppliers and five retailers to look into allegations of price-gouging.
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Since the sale, Shkreli's been identified as a price-gouging pharmaceutical executive who preys on sick people and has been arrested for fraud.
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The company has subsequently been accused of price gouging, attracting the ire of consumers, lawmakers, doctors, and at least one disgruntled celebrity endorser.
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As you can imagine, complaints to the FTC spiked in late August of 2016, as the news of EpiPen price gouging went mainstream.
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But it gets worse: On top of this rigged cycle of predatory price gouging and consumer manipulation, there's another serious problem: electric waste.
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It pushes against prescription drug price-gouging, backs regulation to prevent large-scale mergers, and proposes tax breaks for employers to train employees.
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Maduro argues that he is the victim of a Washington-led "economic war" designed to sabotage his administration through sanctions and price-gouging.
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Democratic presidential primary front runner Hillary Clinton has said she would tackle "price gouging" by drug makers if she takes the White House.
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A leading Senate Democrat is vowing to take on prescription drug price-gouging amid a deepening congressional probe into embattled drugmaker Valeant Pharmaceuticals.
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We packed up two cars, three dogs, a kid, baby, and hit the road north expecting price gouging, reckless driving and mass hysteria.
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These monopolies on life-essential medicines enable the take-it-or-leave-it price-gouging that causes so much suffering and even death.
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At the same time, Teva's membership could enhance the credibility of PhRMA lobbyists as they try to beat back accusations of price gouging.
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Burns said the proposed ordinance would disproportionately impact renters, discourage tourists and business travelers, and allow "big hotels to continue price gouging consumers."
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In addition, the order activates North Carolina's price-gouging law, which prohibits "overcharging in a time of crisis," according to the press release.
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Company CEO Heather Bresch found herself in the hot seat as several members of Congress called for hearings into the potential price-gouging.
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According to the report, Lou Harris was the crowd favorite because Cora displayed some rather unsportsmanlike conduct, including biting, clawing, and eye-gouging.
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Suddenly Jasper exploded into a storm of claws, gouging my throat and sending the other cats out into the night like meowing shrapnel.
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If Congress does not pass this measure, Harris says she intends to compile a report documenting the pharmaceutical companies that are price-gouging.
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Terms like "scalping" and "price gouging" are pejoratives used to demonize those who resell tickets at whatever high prices the market will bear.
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She hopes for long-term solutions in the United States like price caps, anti-gouging laws, patent reform and transparency from pharmaceutical companies.
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Sellers are also gouging prices of disinfectant wipes and hand sanitizer, with a two-pack of travel-size Purell sanitizer priced at $30.
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Amazon faced complaints of price gouging during Hurricane Irma in 2017, when customers complained of sharply inflated prices for essentials like bottled water.
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" Cooper added that the declaration can protect consumers from price gouging and encourage "insurers to make testing available for little or no cost.
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Mylan, the company responsible for the price gouging, had purchased the drug and simply raised the price because it didn't have any competitors.
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"It also worked so that I did not feel I was gouging them, while still protecting my retirement-plan assets," Mr. Brown said.
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But George Hobica, the founder of the site Airfarewatchdog, said that he did not think airlines were price-gouging, not consciously at least.
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All of these profit-gouging strategies add up to a false brand of "efficiency" that actually increases the system's costs at passenger expense.
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To others it smacked of gouging, especially when there were huge spikes in prices during Superstorm Sandy and a hostage crisis in Sydney.
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While manufacturers are just one link in the prescription drug supply chain, PBMs stand out as the major element to consumer price gouging.
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Stein also warned storm victims to be vigilant when repairing their homes after the storm and look out for price gouging and scams.
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The topic of "coronavirus and price gouging" has also been hotly debated among users on Amazon's official selling forum over the past week.
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And Amazon has removed listings for products that made false claims about the virus and cracked down on price gouging on face masks.
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John Fury stopped that year after being jailed for gouging out a man's eye in a brawl, according to the Manchester Evening News.
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The law's overarching aim is to protect workers and consumers by countering the financial speculation, reckless lending and price gouging that inflate bubbles.
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And you have a chairman and a ranking member who have a history of going after price gouging, and that presents an opportunity.
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Meyer had originally tried to take the company to court over its "surge" feature, which he argued is a form of price-gouging.
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His campaign argues that the internet should not be a "price gouging profit machine" for companies such as Comcast, AT&T and Verizon.
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We're going to fight for rules to stop prescription drug price gouging and demand that drug companies justify price increases to the public.
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By Saturday morning, bulldozers had plowed through those sites, gouging a blank path of earth across land once populated with bones and cairns.
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But something like Apple using its control over iOS to favoring Apple Music over Pandora and Spotify doesn't involve gouging anyone on price.
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A bipartisan group of state attorneys general on Wednesday sent letters to major retailers urging them crack down on price gouging on their online platforms amid the spread of coronavirus The 34 AGs recommended for Amazon, Craigslist, eBay, Facebook and Walmart to build tools to detect price spikes and create landing pages for people to report cases of price gouging.
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The iPhone owners who brought the suit allege that Apple's 30 percent commission on app sales amounts to price gouging passed on to consumers.
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And although Bresch claimed responsibility for Mylan's price gouging—"We absolutely raised the price and take full responsibility for that"—it wasn't quite enough.
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Without the thick mat of roots holding it together, the soil washed away, silting the reservoirs and gouging furrows of erosion into the slopes.
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The crisis has also driven many Russians to the black market for HIV meds, which brings the risk of counterfeit products and price-gouging.
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In September, as the new bodegones were starting to emerge, the government jailed 34 managers of well-known supermarkets on accusations of price-gouging.
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So prevalent were the long, sharpened fingernails using to attack the eyes that rough-and-tumble was also known in some circles as 'gouging.
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And yet for some reason, they also act like serial killers, constantly gouging out their enemies' eyes, then staging their corpses in public places.
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What's happening: Low commodity prices have been gouging U.S. farmers' bottom lines for years now, exacerbated by increasing agricultural competition from Russia and Brazil.
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Mylan recently came under fire for price gouging after jacking up the price of the EpiPen from $57 in 2007 to over $600 today.
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State Attorney General Pam Bondi activated Florida's emergency anti-price-gouging regulations, barring retailers from raising prices on gasoline, water, lumber and other necessities.
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Trump also criticized high drug prices, a talking point that has generated much praise in light of recent price gouging fiascos like the EpiPen.
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Amazon divides opinion: its stratospheric valuation suggests it will evolve into a price-gouging monopoly but at the moment it is lowering consumer prices.
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At just $39 per user per year, it's certainly not gouging its customers, which include the likes of IBM, Macy's, ING, NASA and VMWare.
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It turned out that whatever success Valeant had was based on price gouging, supported in part by a shady relationship with online pharmacy Philidor.
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Left in December called Express Scripts the "culprit behind pharmaceutical price gouging", and added that the company benefited from the "opaqueness" of drug pricing.
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Many people are particularly sensitive to the issue after widespread reports of price-gouging in the wake of Hurricane Harvey and its flooding aftermath.
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Cramer had heard a lot of talk about price gouging at Valeant, but a lot of companies were raising drug prices at the time.
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The company is also facing a separate proposed class action lawsuit accusing it of gouging consumers by selling EpiPens only in packs of two.
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Given there's no real technical justification for limits on data usage, critics say they amount to little more than price gouging of captive consumers.
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Facing a double-edged sword, federal employees must hope for a deal that keeps them at work without gouging their earned pay and benefits.
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Contracts for deed make gouging possible, because unlike traditional mortgages, there is no appraisal or inspection to ensure that the loan amount is reasonable.
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The letters seek information about some of the drugs most often cited as examples of alleged industry price gouging, including Humira, AbbVie's arthritis medicine.
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The big picture: Low commodity prices have been gouging U.S. farmers' bottom lines for years, exacerbated by increasing agricultural competition from Russia and Brazil.
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In almost 60 days of public hearings, the inquiry has heard instances of bribery, fraud, fee-gouging and board-level deception across the industry.
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And now that Mylan has reminded everyone just how common price gouging is in the pharmaceutical industry, even its shareholders are paying a price.
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After passing the country's first statewide anti-rent-gouging bill, the Assembly in Oregon passed a measure limiting exclusionary single-family zoning last week.
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"If you're going to copy a vampire bat, you actually don't want to make a deep gouging mark in the neck," Dr. Lucas said.
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On the other hand, Mr. Trump's proposal for reducing price gouging is allowing the government to negotiate prices with drug companies for Medicare recipients.
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The law will go into effect for the next 45 days, and Cooper's office is encouraging residents to report gasoline price gouging to officials.
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Now, opponents are throwing up a smokescreen of distortions and misinformation as they try to repeal reform and return to gouging consumers and merchants.
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Frank almost strangles his spouse, but she fights back, nearly gouging out both of his eyeballs with her bare thumbs, until Frank suddenly awakens.
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In recent days, the DOJ has also zeroed in on illegal price-gouging of crucial medical and other supplies required to fight the coronavirus.
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New York (CNN Business)Amazon says it has pulled more than 1 million products for price gouging or falsely advertising effectiveness against the coronavirus.
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Signs and banners thanking volunteers and blasting Air Canada, as the airline was accused of gouging Fort McMurray residents trying to leave the city.
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But a narrow reliance on whether or not consumers have experienced price gouging fails to take into account the full cost of market domination.
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"I didn't order any of them right away for the simple fact that I knew it would be a lot of gouging," O'Neal said.
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This lobbyist noted that companies in the pharmaceutical industry are asking about any potential price gouging legislation as officials such as New York Gov.
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In recent days, however, Amazon has taken a number of steps to crack down on price gouging and products that make dubious medical claims.
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"Accordingly, we urge DOJ to coordinate with state attorneys general to ensure a swift, effective and unified national response to price gouging," Zumwalt wrote.
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I am not going to go full Gordon Gekko and tell you "greed is good" when it comes to price-gouging over coronavirus fears.
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Tennessee, which declared a state of emergency last Thursday, triggering an anti–price gouging law, is still investigating the brothers' case, CBS News reported.
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According to the New York Times, attorney general offices in California, Washington, and New York are all investigating price gouging related to the coronavirus.
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Yet, the company did become the center of a price gouging controversy during Hurricane Irma in 2017, when prices for bottled water jumped significantly.
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They had abandoned their beads and were decorating one another's arms with blue Biro ink, gouging the names of their beloveds into their flesh.
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This theme was even more bald in the Korean original, which opens with an animated parable about a mother gouging out her own eyes.
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I introduced this legislation because seniors who rely on life-sustaining drugs can't simply vote with their wallet to fight back against price-gouging.
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Martin Shkreli, who has become a poster child for price-gouging drug companies, will make a long-awaited appearance on Capitol Hill on Thursday.
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It landed in the pavement, gouging a small crater 10 meters (30 feet) from where the three-year-old was playing outside her house.
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Finally, the government is correct to forcibly decrease the amount seniors have to pay out of pocket and stop the middle managers from gouging them.
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After all, a tweet from then-Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton about price gouging in the drug market sent biotech stocks tanking in September 246.74.
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Only, it wasn't a snack she was after, but pliers, because a rusty nail had wedged itself into her shoe and was gouging her foot.
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Not only are periods prohibitively expensive – in part, due to price gouging of tampons by commissaries – but often a monthly source of humiliation, even abuse.
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There's excessive violence (eye-gouging and such), to be sure, as well as raunchy language, sexist attitudes, tasteless humor, adolescent clowning around and general vulgarity.
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Clinton's focus on the issue in September, in the form of a tweet about price gouging, took 5 percent off biotech stocks in one morning.
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This role includes ensuring that consumers are protected from, among other things, invasions of their privacy, fraudulent billing and price gouging by their broadband providers.
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In North Carolina, more than 400 consumers had filed complaints to report potential gas price gouging to Cooper's Consumer Protection Division as of 11 a.m.
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It added that while the lenders had denied they were gouging money from customers, the rate rise was a "further illustration of accommodative pricing behaviour".
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I like your train of thought and it seems there needs to be new policies in place that prevent the gouging of people in peril.
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If these firms constitute a set-top box cartel gouging an unwitting public, they are the most bungling monopolists in the history of the world.
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Service station operators posted notices of how they had been forced to bring in gas from distant areas, and the authorities warned against price gouging.
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After all, a tweet from then-Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton about price-gouging in the drug market sent biotech stocks tanking in September 232.15.
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Another issue is price gouging on medical bills, such as charging $23 for one alcohol swab or $53 for a pair of non-sterile gloves.
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The extremist group generates vast amounts of funds from charcoal exports and by gouging aid agencies and ordinary Somalis in protection rackets and road tolls.
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Roman also said 3M is working with federal and state authorities to curb counterfeiting and price gouging of its products and devices, including the masks.
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Amazon is also actively working to stop scams and prevent merchants from price-gouging, but the cost of high-demand items is still increasing marginally.
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But it has said that it will combat price gouging on its marketplace, as prices for face masks, hand sanitizer and other items have skyrocketed.
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Amazon is currently working with state attorneys general to identify and prosecute third-party sellers who are price-gouging on its website, Reuters reported Friday.
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We're seeing that again with the coronavirus, with ads popping up for masks that make fake medical claims and price gouging by coronavirus-related products.
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Amazon, for example, said last week that it removed more than 1 million products for violating its policies related to price gouging and coronavirus claims.
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The company later pulled his items and thousands of other sanitary products, warning sellers that they could be suspended from the site for price gouging.
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It has also navigated price gouging of items like face masks and hand sanitizer, and a flood of dubious Covid-19 books in its bookstore.
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The DOJ also created a task force to combat hoarding and price gouging of the supplies, including masks, needed to fight the virus, Politico reported.
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Passing my Freedom from Price Gouging Act is an appropriate first step to right this wrong, but we've got a whole lot more to do.
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Authorities in countries such as China and Italy have also received complaints about price gouging since the outbreak, while Amazon has faced similar challenges before.
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He does not expect to see sharp local spikes at the pump in the impacted areas because retailers are prevented from gouging by state laws.
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Along the river were small camps of prospectors, who had set up diesel-powered pumps and wooden sluices and were noisily gouging away the riverbanks.
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Amy KlobucharAmy KlobucharHillicon Valley: Coronavirus deal includes funds for mail-in voting | Twitter pulled into fight over virus disinformation | State AGs target price gouging | Apple to donate 10M masks State AGs urge online retailers to crack down on coronavirus price gouging Biden's general election strategy comes into focus MORE's (D-Minn.) husband, John Bessler, is hospitalized with COVID-19 after positive test results on Monday.
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Express Scripts shares fell as much as 10 percent after Citron Research tweeted that the pharmacy benefit management company is the "culprit" behind pharmaceutical price gouging.
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While the company works out the kinks, there are reports that some Hyundai dealers are taking advantage of the supply shortage by price gouging the Kona.
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He said his office received more than 5,000 complaints since the hurricane, many related to alleged overcharging or price-gouging for fuel, shelter, food, and water.
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Eye-gouging may have been the preferred coup de gras, but there were numerous ways to maim an opponent and earn the approbation of the crowd.
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" Back on September 21, 2015, the IBB fell 6 percent when presidential candidate Hillary Clinton took aim on Twitter at biotech and big pharma "price gouging.
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A gouging tool can then be used to carve out semi-circles on the top, giving the vegetable the appearance of a polka-dot-covered toadstool.
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Supporters of net neutrality have long argued that the rules are necessary to protect consumers' from price gouging and protect small companies from anti-competitive behavior.
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But lots of them have felt retrograde, gouging a well-worn path into the same old hollow cliches – the gobby indie rebels in the leather jackets.
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He broke with the conservative bloc in an antitrust lawsuit against Apple, holding that consumers could sue the company for gouging them on its app store.
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The sector has suffered from headline risk on the campaign trail ever since Clinton tweeted that she plans to tackle "price gouging" in the pharmaceutical industry.
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More importantly, she exposed (along with some dedicated reporters and a handful of fellow short-sellers) the price gouging tactics of the multinational pharmaceutical corporation Valeant.
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Celgene and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals each fell more than 1 percent as investors worry about action in Washington against price increases that politicians say amount to gouging.
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That same city service that your town can't truly afford but refused to forgo is being paid for by gouging poor people who have almost nothing.
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"Records reviewed by ICIJ describe detainees in isolation mutilating their genitals, gouging their eyes, cutting their wrists and smearing their cells with feces," the organization reported.
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More than 20073 years later, makers of this drug, called naloxone, are cashing in on the nation's opioid painkiller and heroin epidemic and price-gouging consumers.
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The consent decrees that regulate the music powers that be are all that is stopping the industry from becoming embroiled in intolerable price gouging and gridlock.
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Tens of thousands of consumer allegations are lodged with Florida's attorney general each year on everything from used-car sales to pharmaceutical marketing to price gouging.
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The announcement came in the wake of widespread shortages caused by the novel coronavirus outbreak, which have led to price-gouging both online and in stores.
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It also ensures that certain out-of-state medical workers can provide services in California and prevents price gouging on crucial supplies, like masks and gloves.
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Cuomo noted that Trump administration's refusal to nationalize the purchase of medical supplies has resulted in states competing to buy these vital resources, causing price gouging.
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Gilead Sciences, famous for its price gouging of other medicines developed with public funding like Truvada for PrEP and Sovaldi, owns the exclusive rights to remdesivir.
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To further crack down on price gouging, Amazon is also preventing sellers from bidding on "coronavirus" as a keyword to advertise their products as sponsored listings.
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In the US, New York state has begun employing prisoners to make hand sanitizer in response to shortages and in an effort to stop price gouging.
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With reports of masks being stolen from hospitals and price gouging of essentials like hand gels, fraud authorities and the police have gone into high alert.
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Amazon said it has taken down 530,000 products from its site over price gouging concerns and suspended more than 2,500 seller accounts in the US alone.
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Amazon said it has removed hundreds of thousands of "high-priced offers" and suspended thousands of sellers who have engaged in price gouging on its marketplace.
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Issuing a blanket ban was viewed as a more comprehensive solution to the problem, rather than enforcing a price gouging cap on individual items, eBay said.
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Outside of eBay, other e-commerce platforms including Amazon, Walmart and Etsy were also hit by price gouging and sellers offering products with misleading medical claims.
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Callaway recently introduced the Truvis, which comes in white overlaid with a red pentagonal soccer-ball pattern (it also comes in eye-gouging black-on-yellow).
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This sensitivity — to history, ecology and the community — defines Pepper's earthworks in contrast to land art's associations with earth-gouging excavations in far-flung desert locales.
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But even if Trump disagrees, as a policy matter, to enact a NAFTA renegotiation, eliminating the existing medicine-price-gouging terms in NAFTA will be essential.
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Beijing has also sought to control the prices of groceries and medical supplies by encouraging companies to expand production and introducing steps to curb price gouging.
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Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, another potential 2020 contender, a measure to require manufacturers to report and justify their hikes and penalize them for price gouging.
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There have already been more than 500 complaints about price gouging during Hurricane Harvey over the weekend, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton told CNBC on Monday.
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DEMS PRESSURE WH ON DRUG PRICE-GOUGING: Dozens of Democrats are firing warning shots at drugmakers just one day before the State of the Union address.
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Smith-Holt said she hopes for long-term solutions in the United States like price caps, anti-gouging laws, patent reform and transparency from pharmaceutical companies.
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It's like street fighting, in which antagonists generally refrain from deliberately gouging eyes or punching throats but will still beat the hell out of each other.
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It's hard to say what surge fares will look like in the region, but the company will keep them low enough to avoid accusations of price-gouging.
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When Hillary Clinton once tweeted that "price gouging" over a drug called Daraprim was "outrageous," the stocks of the company producing it immediately fell by 5 percent.
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As Jim Cramer watched Valeant's outgoing CEO Mike Pearson testify on price gouging this week, he wondered if the worst is finally over for all things pharmaceutical.
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But I suspect the main reason the Juicero is so ludicrously over-engineered was less to do with gouging customers than it was about impressing Wall Street.
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Title II is the portion of the law that gives the FCC power to protect consumers from, among other things, fraudulent billing, privacy violations and price gouging.
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If that last one sounds familiar, that's because Marathon is a private equity-backed company accused of price-gouging on its DMD drug (we discussed it here).
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The pins in the stem catch were too wide, and weren't sliding in properly to the grove on the stomp brake, gouging the plastic in the process.
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It also extends a previous executive order that addressed emergency-time price gouging and temporarily halted fees associated with mobile and manufactured homes, the Associated Press reported.
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In September last year the sector was down again after another tweet where Clinton said she would plan to tackle "price gouging" in the industry if elected.
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Clinton's comments about reining in drug pricing have pressured shares of biotech and pharmaceutical companies, including a Tweet in September about "price gouging" that sent shares swooning.
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Railroads could be accused of gouging their customers: pre-tax return on capital for the big six firms rose from 10% in 2004 to 43% in 2014.
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The government, however, has accused him of being part of a capitalist conspiracy and threatened to nationalize Polar facilities as punishment for alleged hoarding and price-gouging.
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Meaningful reforms—such as preventing Japan's vast, quasi-statist system of farm co-operatives from gouging hard-up farmers with high prices for farm supplies—are stalling.
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The House Oversight Committee finally got the hearing it requested weeks ago from Heather Bresch, CEO of Mylan over the price-gouging tactics involved with the EpiPen.
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These firms say data price inflation is putting their businesses at risk, although the FESE study said that exchanges were not gouging customers with data feed prices.
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A panel of First Circuit Court of Appeals judges reversed U.S. District Judge Douglas Woodlock's decision to let Uber handle a price gouging case in private arbitration.
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Independent pharmacists, who are a key part of the health care infrastructure in the state's rural communities, reported price gouging at the hands of pharmacy benefit managers.
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First, it will keep manufacturers from gouging consumers and from taking advantage of the payment system's inability to impose meaningful limits on the amounts they can charge.
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Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), have asked for all documents related to the pricing and profits of drugs sold by the company as it faces price-gouging claims.
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A panel of First Circuit Court of Appeals judges reversed U.S. District Judge Douglas Woodlock's decision to let Uber handle a price gouging case in private arbitration.
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The Justice Department has also set up a task force to address hoarding and price gouging related to supplies urgently needed for the fight against the virus.
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It may sound like no big deal — raising admission fees in the 17 parks targeted for price gouging — when Trump's government is running a $660 billion deficit.
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That was until both Amazon and eBay pulled the plug on price-gouging coronavirus schemes like the one the Colvins were operating out of their storage units.
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Though the medication (epinephrine) is decades old, it is delivered by patent-protected auto-injectors, which allowed Mylan to get away with price gouging for so long.
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Officials in Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina this week warned retailers against price gouging, citing penalties for violating state of emergency rules against excessive price increases.
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Since then, the gouging has become noticeably worse, with 24-packs of 2-ounce hand sanitizer bottles seeing jumps from $10 per box to more than $400.
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Since then, the gouging has become noticeably worse, with 24-packs of 2-ounce hand sanitizer bottles seeing jumps from $10 per box to more than $400.
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"We've known from past instances, like hurricanes, that price gouging has occurred on Amazon and other platforms," said Adam Garber, who led the analysis for U.S. PIRG.
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The chaos sparked a rush for flights back to the U.S., causing fares to spike and sparking criticism on social media of what some called price gouging.
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Amazon is blocking new offers for face masks, hand sanitizer and other coronavirus-related products on its site, marking its latest effort to stamp out price gouging.
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While there were a few isolated incidents of looting and price gouging, the prevailing theme in Rockport was one of neighbor helping neighbor and stranger helping stranger.
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A group of 33 attorneys general from U.S. states and territories called on Amazon, eBay, Facebook, Walmart and Craigslist to prevent price gouging on coronavirus-related products.
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In response to a question at a press conference about the coronavirus Wednesday, President Donald Trump said that he would "definitely investigate" price gouging of medical supplies.
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E-commerce giants Alibaba (BABA), JD.com (JD), and Meituan each announced that they would monitor prices closely and remove overpriced items or ban merchants for price-gouging.
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Amazon did not respond to emails seeking comment about its supply of hand sanitizers and how it handles third-party sellers that may be price-gouging customers.
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Martin Shkreli, the creepy man responsible for price gouging pharmaceutical drugs, currently incarcerated for securities fraud, was once called "Wall Street's most visible villain" by Vanity Fair.
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As more coronavirus cases are reported, demand for face masks will increase — as will their prices (there's already been some serious price gouging going on on Amazon).
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Many residents are heading out of the city for the long weekend, though some travelers accused bus companies of price gouging and were protesting at some stations.
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"Congress should stop this assault on the American people's health and pocketbooks by curbing the company's flagrant drug-price gouging and tax dodging," the group said. Rep.
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While price gouging consumers, the corporation spent millions to lobby Congress, the Department of Health and Human Services, and other administrative agencies — $5.7 million in 85033 alone.
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As a flagrant picker, I've found that they speed healing time, flatten out blemishes to make it easier to apply makeup, and generally discourage more facial gouging.
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The ruling was nothing short of a windfall for Pai's former client and other profit-hungry corporations that had been for years gouging the families of incarcerated Americans.
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Those who have complained of plane tickets soaring during the hurricane won't have any luck filing a compliant because Florida's price-gouging statute does not apply to airlines.
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It includes sections portraying soldiers, led by Duke William of Normandy, preparing for battle; crossing the English Channel in dragon-headed ships; and gouging their enemies with swords.
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"We need tools to prevent price gouging," says Elena Popp, executive director of the Eviction Defence Network, one of three groups leading the charge to repeal Costa Hawkins.
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The more distinctive a product, and the higher the barriers to entry, the more its seller resembles the nasty monopolies of the textbooks: raising prices and gouging profits.
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People who rely on these medications pointed out that price gouging created an undue hardship, forcing them to pay unnecessary sums for the drugs they need to survive.
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Price gouging is "rampant" in the hotel industry, and Airbnb has saved consumers more than $16 million over several events in major cities of late, the company said.
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The closure was a major contributor to the extreme shortage of methotrexate, and an open opportunity for price-gouging on a now low-supply but high-demand product.
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And if something were to happen to your new, smart Razr, like, say a crack in its foldable display, there's an additional wallet-gouging cost to replace it.
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Texas residents are reporting hundreds of complaints about price gouging for basic goods like bottled water in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, according to the state's attorney general.
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Hospitals, doctors, and their patients are confronting two related drug access problems that should be unimaginable in American society: a shortage of essential medicines and unscrupulous price gouging.
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Taking Note The pharmaceutical industry has been put on the defensive about rising cost of prescription drugs, with some executives called to testify in Congress about price gouging.
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On Wednesday, legislators introduced a bill that would limit airline fees for checked bags, ticket changes and cancellations, saying the practice amounts to a form of price gouging.
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In an earlier era, list prices were intended to prevent retailers from gouging customers — if $40 was printed on the box, a customer might flee if charged $60.
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The committee will also hear from Howard Schiller, the interim CEO of Valeant Pharmaceuticals, another company that has been accusing of price-gouging, according to a Democratic aide.
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Price gouging refers to raising prices on goods and services to unfair levels, particularly during times of crisis, and many states have laws designed to prevent this practice.
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When customers in Florida were looking to change their flights so close to their departure date and saw such dramatic increases, it sure looked like classic price gouging.
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Last week, the Department of Justice warned businesses against price gouging during the pandemic, saying it will hold businesses accountable if they violate antitrust laws during the outbreak.
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Amazon and other retailers have taken steps to prevent price gouging and hoarding in recent days as panicked buyers have sought to buy surgical masks in large numbers.
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That's the signature of price gouging, carried out on the backs of consumers that have to pay for it either directly, via insurance premiums, taxes, or a combination.
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Amazon said in a company blog on Monday that it had removed 3,900 sellers for price gouging, and with them well over half a million extortionately priced items.
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As a reaction to the novel coronavirus, many people are stocking up on toilet paper, causing shortages and price gouging at both online and brick-and-mortar stores.
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Let companies like Ovation, Turing, Valeant, Mylan and other abusers of the system become a warning to others who might want to make price-gouging their business model.
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As peddlers of a $52,000 cheese grater, Apple is no stranger to price gouging, but still should be weary of its association with a figure like Martin Shkreli.
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This presents a natural experiment in the value of industry events, seen by some as essential for networking and deal making and by others as price-gouging junkets.
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And the move was also seen as another Apple price-gouging move, forcing iPhone and iPad owners to buy expensive new chargers that only worked with Apple devices.
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Charlie Crist has asked the U.S. Department of Transportation to consider investigating United Airlines after receiving complaints the carrier was "gouging" customers trying to escape powerful Hurricane Irma.
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We need a credible advocate for patients, one who will take measures to curtail price gouging and limit corporate overreach in domestic and foreign rule making and enforcement.
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Eventually, the young Paul gets the nerve to show up at the wood shop, where he persuades Giovanni to teach him the tricks of restoration: gouging, scraping, polishing.
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Without the byzantine American framework of forms, provider calls, and baked-in price-gouging to get in the way, my minor surgery was happening at a dizzying speed.
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Disgraced price-gouging pharmaceutical bro Martin Shkreli clearly understands this—the man's favorite wrestler is Damien Sandow, an elitist scoundrel who pretends to be a Rhodes Scholar (and rules).
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Under the Stop Price Gouging Act, drug makers would face an excise tax if their price increases exceed the annual rise in the consumer price index for medical care.
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Democratic rival Hillary Clinton had vowed to take on pharmaceutical "price gouging," and some pundits predicted the Democrats would gain control of the Senate, giving her a stronger hand.
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In March, Left said on "Fast Money" that Mallinckrodt makes Valeant look like a "choirboy" in comparison and that Mallinckrodt's drug Acthar is the "poster child" of price gouging.
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The government this week gave the competition watchdog authority to force the big retailers which own generation to spin off assets if they are found to be price gouging.
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The federal securities charges against him involve accusations that he defrauded investors in two former hedge funds he ran and are unrelated to accusations of price gouging by Turing.
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Drivers love it, often waiting to sign-on to the platform until surge pricing kicks in, but most passengers hate it and some critics equate it with price gouging.
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Martin Shkreli, the frat-boy pharmaceutical executive who made news for price-gouging HIV patients, went in front of Congress to defend himself against charges of fraud on Thursday.
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The pharmaceutical company that just months ago was embroiled in a price-gouging scandal over its life-saving EpiPen now finds itself at the center of another potential controversy.
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Sure, there were villains -- looters and scurrilous business owners gouging victims for drinking water -- but the dominant storyline became the heroes near and far who answered calls to help.
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It also said the law was unconstitutional because of what it said was a vague prohibition on "price gouging" that provides drugmakers no meaningful description of what it covers.
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The most-anticipated witness is Martin Shkreli, the 22019-year-old entrepreneur who has become the poster child for price gouging, even falling under attack from fellow pharmaceutical companies.
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Tar sands oil is particularly dirty and challenging to clean up, and its extraction involves gouging what amount to shallow strip mines across vast tracts formerly occupied by forests.
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The price-gouging that has gotten so much press, such as the 85033,000 percent increase for toxoplasmosis drugs by Turing, is only a symptom of an entirely broken system.
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Last year, the Minnesota attorney general filed a lawsuit against the big three insulin makers for alleged price gouging, and in February, Maryland Congressman Elijah Cummings and Vermont Sen.
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In the most "egregious" cases of "price-gouging patients," the plan says Harris will use the 1980 Bayh-Dole Act to license patented drugs to a lower-cost competitor.
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A 2014 sculptural installation by Abigail DeVille, called "Intersection," originated as a stage set and became, with some gouging and puncturing, a witty, right-on sendup of Richard Serra.
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This, combined with the fact that an eye-gouging child of incest lives in their walls, made me convinced that someone was going to kill me around Christmas time.
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Government officials are also tackling the price gouging of products that can help reduce the risk of falling ill with the disease, such as hand sanitizer and face masks.
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Amid the panic, there have been numerous reports of price gouging, from $50 bottles of Purell, to $10 for a single toilet roll, to nearly $900 boxes of ammunition.
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We're only six games in, but Gay's PER, True Shooting, and free-throw rate are all career highs, in part because he's gouging opposing teams from the inside out.
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But many of the most pressing concerns about Facebook are its privacy abuses, which unlike price gouging, price discrimination or exclusive dealing, are not immediately recognized as antitrust violations.
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Jerry Brown to impose a six-month ban on rent increases in excess of 10 percent, while Attorney General Xavier Becerra has warned against all forms of price gouging.
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Thousands of companies and individuals have been punished for offenses like making counterfeits or price gouging, according to China's State Administration for Market Regulation, which oversees standards and testing.
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However, Cuomo issued a warning: "To Purell and Mr. Amazon and Mr. Ebay, if you continue the price gouging, we will introduce our product, which is superior," he said.
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Amazon has recently taken similar steps, removing more than one million listings that make false medical claims as well as cracking down on sellers who engage in price gouging.
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The proclamation also includes provisions to protect consumers from price gouging and allows for out-of-state healthcare workers to assist facilities at the frontlines of the coronavirus battle.
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The company has come under pressure from lawmakers to nab sellers who have taken advantage of fears of the spreading coronavirus and engaging in price-gouging on its website.
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Huseman also provided details around how Amazon detects price gouging, saying the company continuously compares prices submitted by sellers with current and historic prices within and outside of Amazon.
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The Trump administration this week delayed the implementation of a rule under the Affordable Care Act meant to punish drug companies for price gouging, according to a new report.
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During a press conference earlier in the day, Bondi said convenience store chain 7-Eleven has been called out for price gouging on water in more than 100 complaints.
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The ex-CEO will appear alongside a former colleague from Turing Pharmaceutical, as well as the acting head of Valeant Pharmaceuticals, another company under fire for price-gouging practices.
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But outside of some occasional instances of people capitalizing on the hype (like the FW900 that sold for $999 on eBay) he hasn't seen much evidence of price gouging.
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Mr. Trump's charitable foundation will not be paying any of the $25 million settlement to resolve a series of lawsuits concerning Trump University, which drew complaints about price gouging.
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"I'm just really fascinated by this sudden craze over hoarding toilet paper, which has led to mass-shortage and price-gouging," the undeniably hot TP lady's creator told me.
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Hours before meeting Kim, Trump berated Germany on Twitter for not covering its share of the NATO military alliance, and accused Canada of gouging the U.S. on milk exports.
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After customers accused Air Canada of price gouging during the Fort McMurray wildfire, the airline is offering a refund to all those who paid high fares while evacuating the area.
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Among other things, Title II gives the FCC the legal power to protect consumers from fraudulent billing, price gouging, anticompetitive behavior, data breaches, and other practices that violate users' privacy.
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According to the Texas Attorney General, the price gouging has included hotel prices quadrupling, fuel for as much as $10 per gallon, and cases of water being sold for $0003.
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Still, she said evidence points to widespread bribery and price-gouging by firms looking to tap into Brazil's public healthcare system, one of the world's largest, serving 210 million people.
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Leah Simon-Weisberg, legal director for Tenants Together, a nonprofit dedicated to tenant advocacy across California, told City Lab that Rentberry is like the price gouging-Martin Shkreli of startups.
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The now-normalized trend of wallet gouging outside of the US saw iPhone X's starting price of $2063,2206 inflated north of $21,2180 in places like Russia and Poland, among others.
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Still, she said evidence points to widespread bribery and price gouging by firms looking to tap into Brazil's public healthcare system, one of the world's largest, serving 210 million people.
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The holidays are just over a week away, though you still have time to buy gifts and have them delivered in time without gouging your wallet from expedited shipping charges.
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The Supreme Court this week heard the latest arguments in a longstanding lawsuit accusing Apple of operating a locked down, price-gouging monopoly in the form of its App Store.
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Thinking it would be a great tool for teaching his students about the effects of rent gouging, Nearing made a copy by hand and began using it in his classes.
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The company was accused of price gouging — in this case, the selling of necessities like food, water and gas at higher prices due to higher demand caused by an emergency.
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Typically, a loved one or an associate on the outside deposits money into a prisoner's JPay account, which they then use as credits to buy JPay's various price-gouging services.
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"In typical fashion, Albany back-room dealing rewarded a special interest — the price-gouging hotel industry — and ignored the voices of tens of thousands of New Yorkers," the spokesperson said.
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This has led to many examples of Black and low-income folks being targeted for online payday lending advertising and other forms of predatory marketing, online price gouging, and more.
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The American Medical Association (AMA), the country's largest physician group, last week called for the federal government to protect patients from being harmed by companies price gouging on insulin products.
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Those healthcare industries have been outperformers since a watershed moment for healthcare investing: when Hillary Clinton as the Democratic presidential candidate tweeted about "price gouging" in the specialty drug market.
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Some 28503-Eleven locations in Florida are offering free cases of bottled water after Florida's Attorney General office reported thousands of calls about price-gouging at stores across the state.
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In addition to Hickey and Mallon, Brazilian officials are likely to seek prosecution of another seven executives from PRO10 and THG with alleged ties to the ticket price-gouging scheme.
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In a Monday White House briefing on the coronavirus, Attorney General William Barr announced the formation of a new task force dedicated to cracking down on hoarding and price-gouging.
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Some of those prices may reflect fair market conditions for a unique time, but others appear to cross the line that separates fair supply-demand dynamics from exploitative price gouging.
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Beshear in early March signed an executive order activating the state's price gouging laws for 15 days, and has since extended that executive order, which Cameron is tasked with enforcing.
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The emergency proclamation includes anti-price gouging provisions as well as provisions allowing for health care workers to travel from out of state to provide assistance in health care facilities.
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The platforms have each instituted new and rapidly-evolving policies to combat the scourge of misinformation and fight against the price gouging on e-commerce sites like Amazon and eBay.
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Bad actors are price gouging or ripping people off for 3M brand model 8210 N95s, charging as much as $30 for a respirator that used to cost $3 or $4.
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Amazon is now deploying "an additional dedicated team" that's working "24 hours, seven days a week" to spot price gouging on items like protective masks and hand sanitizers, Huseman said.
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This is the type of price-gouging that Amazon typically never allows, and the company is on high alert for the behavior during situations like natural disasters and disease outbreaks.
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Letters To the Editor: Re "How to Stop Drug Price Gouging" (Op-Ed, April 20): Tim Wu is right about the problem, but his solution is not a good one.
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The company's head of policy, Christopher Lehane, accused hoteliers of price-gouging customers and called their fight against Airbnb a "campaign to punish the middle-class" in a letter Wednesday.
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American democracy gave autonomy to those who did not deserve it, like the savages in the deep South, and gouging was merely a sign that independence was not meant for all.
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Two firms beginning with "V" are included for their antics in 2015: Volkswagen, which admitted fiddling emissions tests, and Valeant, a drugs firm accused of price gouging and publishing inaccurate accounts.
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"The solar power sector should strengthen self-discipline whether domestically or overseas, and it should refrain from false propaganda and from price-gouging cut-throat competition," Wang told an industry conference.
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But during the massive snowstorm this weekend, the price gouging hit a new high, or a new low—someone had the audacity to try and rent out an igloo on Airbnb.
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He has threatened to punish companies that offshore jobs, accused Boeing of gouging taxpayers with its contract with the U.S. Air Force, and criticized the pharmaceutical industry for high drug prices.
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Amazon is removing excessively priced bottled water from its marketplace after being accused of price gouging, as thousands of Americans prepare for the deadly Hurricane Irma to make landfall in Florida.
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But that is exactly what Pai would like to do, because it would leave network neutrality rules and other consumer protections against billing fraud and price gouging without a legal foundation.
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Since Hillary Clinton's September tweet blasting drug price gouging, the S&P 500 biotechnology index is off by double digits, compared to the broader benchmark being down just about 1 percent.
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"I worked with every ounce of energy I could muster, gouging at the earth with a spade, but the only result was a solitary scratch on the surface," Ms. Yang wrote.
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"Today, we're sending big pharma a message: Market exclusivity is a privilege, and when you abuse that by price gouging the sick and aging, then you lose that privilege," Khanna said.
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This act was a response to a Supreme Court decision addressing price gouging and monopolies and allowed states the ability to regulate the industry, which prevents real competition across state lines.
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Since wage stagnation and persistent inequality ensures the need for low-dollar loans, the dueling regulatory moves could occasion a shift, from payday lenders' gouging customers to big banks doing it.
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From price hikes for the EpiPen to the exploits of "Pharma Bro" Martin Shkreli, the specter of big drug companies gouging the public has put the entire industry under a cloud.
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A spokeswoman for Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) told The Hill the office has received at least 2900 reports of price gouging, or intentionally spiking the price of goods, and frauds.
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The owner of one leading manufacturer reported price gouging by second-hand dealers who were buying up large supplies in and reselling them over the internet at a huge mark-up.
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"Florida's hospitals continue to have record profits, and the governor is committed to fighting price gouging and unfair costs for Floridians needing important medical care," his office said in a release.
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Mr. Cuomo said that because of the price gouging and shortages, inmates would produce up to 100,000 gallons of hand sanitizer per week for CorCraft, the state's prison-based product company.
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Cuomo said the federal government needs to nationalize the purchase of needed medical supplies, adding that the shortage of personal protective gear like masks and respirators is leading to price gouging.
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There has also been concern that online sellers are attempting to cash in on a public health crisis by price gouging and/or targeting internet users with ads for substandard masks.
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Advocates of the Milton Friedman school of free-market theory contend that anti-gouging measures discourage people from conserving goods or suppliers from bringing in goods exactly when demand is highest.
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But we know that those claims are just another price gouging tool that have resulted in billions upon billions of profits as Americans struggle to afford drugs they need to survive.
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Capitalism proved to be essential for economic growth, and the only question was how it should be regulated to protect workers and to prevent abuses such as monopolization and price gouging.
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To make sense of the chaos, here are some points on how those shortages usually happen and what to look out for in this crisis from price gouging to possible rationing.
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And while not exactly a crime, the UK's otherwise bland advisory pays special attention to Florida gas stations "notoriously near to Orlando International Airport" for allegedly gouging tourists on fuel prices.
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"If we're gonna bailout the airlines that have been gouging us for decades while they cut costs and space — I better never pay for a fucking bag again," one person tweeted.
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In New York City, officials have cracked down on the price gouging and shops can now be fined up to $500 for trying to make an extra buck off the outbreak.
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Capitalism has steamrolled this planet and its organisms, gouging out mountains, overexploiting fish stocks, and burning fossil fuels to power the maniacal pursuit of growth and enrich a fraction of humanity.
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In an interview with CNBC's Closing Bell, Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi said her office has received 7,000 complaints through its hotline about price gouging on fuel, water and hotel lodging.
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As residents sought to secure last-minute flights out of the dangerous Category 4 storm's path, airlines faced accusations of trying to capitalize on the panic and chaos by price gouging.
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His challenge was to reconcile rising maintenance costs, declining vacancy rates and rent gouging in unregulated apartments by protecting tenants while discouraging landlords from abandoning their buildings to arson and vandalism.
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He was also frustrated by something else: He and his son had hit water after gouging out a hole 33 feet deep, but the water they got was hardly worth it.
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The gouging is more subtle today than it was in the early 1990s, when local warlords deliberately starved hundreds of thousands of Somalis in order to profit from international aid money.
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In a city crowded with peddlers and performers, there are few hucksters more maligned than pedicab drivers, who have been thoroughly regulated and zoned after reports of collisions and price gouging.
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As a result of the ticketing surge, airlines' dynamic pricing models are presenting some customers with flight options that cost thousands of dollars more than usual, leading to accusations of price gouging.
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Over the past two weeks, the Royal Commission has revealed examples of major breaches of responsibility, dishonorable conduct and fee-gouging by institutions that hold workers' retirement accounts, known as superannuation locally.
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Even Brazil's own government has criticized the country's banks for gouging locals for "excessive" profits, with the country's economic chief saying this week that insufficient competition had led to a "cartelized" economy.
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He says inflation is the result of speculative price-gouging by unscrupulous capitalists, and insists workers are better off as a result of minimum wage increases in 2016 that totaled 454 percent.
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Demand for black threads is so high Thailand's government has warned of a shortage, price gouging has been suspected, and stations have sprung up where people can dye clothes black for free.
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Today, Banting and colleagues would be spinning in their graves: Their drug, which many of the 30 million Americans with diabetes rely on, has become the poster child for pharmaceutical price gouging.
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"With generic drug market failures increasingly prevalent, consumers are suffering from price gouging and essential drug shortages," said Public Citizen President Robert Weissman in a statement of support for the Warren bill.
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But since 217.7, when Zuffa, a promotion company, purchased UFC for $226m, it has cleaned up its act and its image, largely thanks to judicious regulations like the prohibition of eye-gouging.
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The ruling marks the latest salvo in the increasingly escalating battle between Qualcomm and Apple, launched almost two years ago when Apple first accused Qualcomm of gouging prices for its modem chips.
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Angela and her brother, Jackson (Ben Lloyd-Hughes), are American twins who move to Glasgow, Scotland after their mother takes her own life (via gouging out her own eyes, to be precise).
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Many politicians, including both Democrats and Republicans, have called for price caps to control drug prices, a notion popular with many voters in the wake of highly visible instances of price gouging.
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Campaigners like activist Robyn O'Brien have collated their tales and photos of their pharmacy bills online while one parent started a petition — 'Stop the EpiPen price gouging' — that has received 140,6 signatures.
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Kaylee Muthart frightened local residents in Anderson, South Carolina, when they found her gouging out both of her eyes with her own hands while in a drug-induced hallucination on February 6.
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Referencing the price-gouging scandal, the rapper called Shkreli "a real killer, but you're a soft killer," and introduced his "goons" -- his sister and mother -- to give Shekreli a sharp dressing down.
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"It seems like shaming the airlines on Twitter worked wonders so perhaps that's the best 'negotiation' tactic," Mr. Hobica said of the tweet that sparked the initial outrage over suspected price gouging.
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Consumer groups and industry executives alike have long pointed out that these kinds of restrictions and overage fees serve no actual technical purpose outside of price gouging captive customers in uncompetitive markets.
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But policymakers should refrain from imposing costly rules on businesses, such as mandates for paid sick leave, and from pursuing price-gouging cases, which undermine incentives for businesses to supply needed goods.
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These responses often take the form of working to protect consumers from price gouging, allowing more flexibility for out-of-state health care workers, and allowing the state to bypass purchasing regulations.
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While acknowledging that local producers are particularly sensitive to shifts in international pulp prices, the ministry also said it would watch the situation on behalf of consumers to guard against price gouging.
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Facebook said on March 18 that it would temporarily ban commerce listings and advertisements for medical face masks, in an effort to combat price-gouging and misinformation during the COVID-218 crisis.
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The Consumer Brands Association wrote to Barr on Monday, asking DOJ to protect Americans from price gouging of consumer packaged goods, such as hand sanitizers, tissues and face masks during the outbreak.
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Asset managers in the United States and European have been pressing regulators to look at what stock exchanges charge for share transaction data, but bourses have insisted they are not gouging customers.
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WASHINGTON, March 503 (Reuters) - A group of 32 U.S. states have a message for the nation's leading online platforms: You are not doing enough to stop price gouging amid the coronavirus crisis.
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The agencies said they would continue to crack down on firms that attempt to exploit the crisis by price-gouging, cutting wages, reducing output or quality, as well as through criminal violations.
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Amazon has taken measures to warn sellers and even remove products in an effort to curb price gouging, or the practice of deliberately inflating prices on a high-demand product, Wired reported.
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Rent gouging during lease renewal is a major reason so many small businesses are in crisis and closing in record numbers, resulting in the annual loss of tens of thousands of jobs.
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They call it "market demand," but most of us call it price gouging during a time when airlines know passengers will pay almost anything to make the annual pilgrimage to grandma's house.
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"We will break these monopolies up and closely regulate them to ensure they are providing consumers with acceptable service, and eliminate hidden fees, surprise bills, and other consumer-gouging practices," Sanders said.
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Schumer on Sunday asked the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to watch for gasoline price gouging, which he said could contribute to high gasoline prices in his state after Hurricanes Harvey and Irma.
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We could start by ending health insurance company price gouging – ending high deductibles, surprise bills, and endless fights with insurance companies over coverage for critical medical procedures or out-of-pocket costs.
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Mr. Carter's comments echoed statements by Representative Jan Schakowsky, Democrat of Illinois, who said that "on both sides of the aisle, there is a commitment" to end price gouging by insulin manufacturers.
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Amy KlobucharAmy KlobucharHillicon Valley: Coronavirus deal includes funds for mail-in voting | Twitter pulled into fight over virus disinformation | State AGs target price gouging | Apple to donate 10M masks State AGs urge online retailers to crack down on coronavirus price gouging Biden's general election strategy comes into focus MORE (D-Minn.), Gary PetersGary Charles PetersSome Democrats growing antsy as Senate talks drag on Hillicon Valley: Twitter targets coronavirus misinformation | Facebook bans sanitizer, virus test ads to prevent price gouging | DHS defines critical jobs during outbreak | Remote working apps surge Senators urge FCC to ensure all students have access to internet during school closures MORE (D-Mich.) and Jon TesterJonathan (Jon) TesterSome Democrats growing antsy as Senate talks drag on Democrats fume over GOP coronavirus bill: 'Totally inadequate' Hillicon Valley: Twitter targets coronavirus misinformation | Facebook bans sanitizer, virus test ads to prevent price gouging | DHS defines critical jobs during outbreak | Remote working apps surge MORE (D-Mont.) emphasized the importance of K-12 students currently studying from home having access to the internet.
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Amy KlobucharAmy KlobucharHillicon Valley: Coronavirus deal includes funds for mail-in voting | Twitter pulled into fight over virus disinformation | State AGs target price gouging | Apple to donate 85033M masks State AGs urge online retailers to crack down on coronavirus price gouging Biden's general election strategy comes into focus MORE (D-Minn.), Gary PetersGary Charles PetersSome Democrats growing antsy as Senate talks drag on Hillicon Valley: Twitter targets coronavirus misinformation | Facebook bans sanitizer, virus test ads to prevent price gouging | DHS defines critical jobs during outbreak | Remote working apps surge Senators urge FCC to ensure all students have access to internet during school closures MORE (D-Mich.) and Jon TesterJonathan (Jon) TesterSome Democrats growing antsy as Senate talks drag on Democrats fume over GOP coronavirus bill: 'Totally inadequate' Hillicon Valley: Twitter targets coronavirus misinformation | Facebook bans sanitizer, virus test ads to prevent price gouging | DHS defines critical jobs during outbreak | Remote working apps surge MORE (D-Mont.) emphasized the importance of K-12 students currently studying from home having access to the internet.
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We are asking the owners of Phillips 66- and Conoco-branded gas stations to exercise good judgement in pricing gasoline and diesel and we have reminded them about laws that prohibit price gouging.
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Without a strong Israel blocking its path, ISIS and other jihadist groups would spread across Egypt, Jordan, and the entire Middle East, gouging a vast black hole on the rim of Western civilization.
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Australians have grown accustomed to hearing apologies from the heads of the country's wealthiest financial firms in response to the inquiry's evidence of bribery, fraud, fee-gouging, predatory sales tactics, greed, and deception.
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Passengers attempting to hail Uber cars during New York City's explosion on Saturday night hammered the ride sharing service for its pricing policies, accusing the company of gouging customers during a dangerous incident.
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But Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota has been at the forefront of investigating Mylan's price gouging and contends that it has cost her state at least $4 million in just a single year.
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EpiPen's big price tag — which has grown dramatically in recent years — is currently drawing the ire of consumers and politicians who are outraged at what they see as gouging by EpiPen's owner, Mylan.
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But while such price gouging is immoral, it isn't terribly surprising when one considers that the industry in question is behaving as any company seeking to maximize profits might in the free market.
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Price gouging during emergencies is illegal in Florida, and violators can receive civil penalties of $1,000 for each violation and up to $25,000 for a number of violations over a 24-hour period.
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He said there is no reason Mallinckrodt is any different than Valeant, and that the company's drug Acthar, which is used to treat seizures in babies, is the "poster child" of price gouging.
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Recognizing the legal challenges confronting anti-price-gouging efforts, the National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP) developed a model law that enables states to set "allowable rates" for certain high-cost drugs.
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Throughout the campaign Clinton had been much more critical of drug industry pricing than Trump, famously sending drug stocks into a tailspin in September 2015 when she tweeted about specialty drug "price gouging".
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A spokeswoman for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) told The Hill earlier Tuesday that the office had received at least 600 complaints of price gouging and fraud after Harvey hit the region.
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Critics have accused Mylan of price gouging because it controls most of the market for a lifesaving product for people who are at risk of a potentially deadly allergic reaction known as anaphylaxis.
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New York, home of one of the country's largest outbreak zones -- New Rochelle (a portion of which is now under a two-week quarantine) -- is fighting the price gouging problem on all fronts.
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The company has mass-deleted listings and says it pulled 530,000 products from its store and is working with attorneys general in different states to crack down on price gouging amid coronavirus fear.
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Although he told Bloomberg News that he also reached out to the 3M CEO himself, he maintained on Fox News that Roman could have stepped in and stopped the price gouging much sooner.
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In perhaps the best example of hoarding and price gouging in the US, two brothers in Tennessee stockpiled 17,700 bottles of hand sanitizer they hoped to resell on Amazon at $70 per bottle.
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The retailer also says it has removed tens of thousands of deals due to price gouging, as sellers charge much higher prices for items like face masks as concerns about the virus spread.
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Update: February 25, 2020, 5:30 pm: The story has been updated with the CDC's press briefing on the status of Covid-19, and additional information about Amazon preventing price gouging on masks.
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Of course, China is hardly alone in punishing price gouging, and it won public praise for fining some pharmacies for raising prices of face masks, which are in short supply all over China.
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For decades, the banks have been gouging retailers and every single one of their customers – including you – for processing the transaction when you swipe a debit or credit card to pay for something.
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"We will break these monopolies up and closely regulate them to ensure they are providing consumers with acceptable service, and eliminate hidden fees, surprise bills, and other consumer-gouging practices," the proposal pledges.
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Amy KlobucharAmy KlobucharHillicon Valley: Coronavirus deal includes funds for mail-in voting | Twitter pulled into fight over virus disinformation | State AGs target price gouging | Apple to donate 10M masks State AGs urge online retailers to crack down on coronavirus price gouging Biden's general election strategy comes into focus MORE (D-Minn.) and Ron WydenRonald (Ron) Lee WydenHillicon Valley: Coronavirus deal includes funds for mail-in voting | Twitter pulled into fight over virus disinformation | State AGs target price gouging | Apple to donate 85033M masks Senate includes 0M for mail-in voting in coronavirus spending deal Hillicon Valley: Facebook reports huge spike in usage during pandemic | Democrats push for mail-in voting funds in coronavirus stimulus | Trump delays deadline to acquire REAL ID MORE (D-Ore.) recently introduced legislation to allow all Americans to vote by mail.
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Together, they wrote a scathing paper that warned Uber may use vast amounts of customer data to act in a predatory manner—for example, price gouging based on your income level or other circumstances.
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The man from Virginia, sans nose, was carried off in victory while the Kentuckian headed to the doctor, his eyes damaged from the attempted gouging and his torn lower lip flopping around his chin.
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Local licensing fees and taxes, along with a range of gouging state controls on the alcohol trade, stick consumers with end prices that are often five or six times those at the distillery gate.
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Poachers place the looped pieces of wire across animal tracks, where they catch the neck of an antelope or the foot of an elephant, tightening as they pull away, and gouging the animal's flesh.
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In December, Shkreli was indicted on securities fraud charges and is now under investigation by Congress and the Federal Trade Commission for price gouging, so his time in the spotlight is not over yet.
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Most insulting, though, has been his response to the scores of layoffs from PepsiCo and other manufacturers across the city: Rather than acknowledging the effects of his tax, he's smeared businesses for price gouging.
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Pharma bro Martin Shkreli became the smirking poster child for pharmaceutical price gouging when his company, Turing Pharmaceuticals, upped the price of a 63-year-old drug for the parasite toxoplasmosis by 5,20093 percent.
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More than 85033 Democratic lawmakers are calling on the White House to take stronger action against companies accused of price-gouging prescription drugs, suggesting that officials could be doing more with their existing powers.
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Irishman Patrick Hickey, 71, was arrested in a dawn raid at the Hotel Windsor Marapendi in his bathrobe on Wednesday for alleged ties to an illegal price-gouging scheme for tickets to the Olympics.
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Then and now, yakuza have a direct hand in the exploitation of these workers, managing the middlemen connecting laborers to work, and also tempting or gouging anyone with a fresh paycheck through gambling operations.
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Remember when Mylan, the makers of EpiPen came under fire back in the summer of 2016 for price gouging, raising the prices of the EpiPen from roughly $57 in 2007 to $600 in 2016?
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Existing antitrust law in the United States addresses mainly the harm from price gouging, not the other kinds of harm caused by these platforms, such as stifling innovation and undermining the institutions of democracy.
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"We appreciate the Department of Justice's swift response to Consumer Brands' request to combat price gouging and ensure American consumers have access to critical products at affordable prices," the group said in a statement.
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"We are also proactively sharing information with state attorneys general and federal regulators about sellers we suspect have engaged in egregious price gouging of products related to the COVID-19 crisis," the firm added.
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As demand surged on the site for items like hand sanitizer and face masks, many third-party sellers began dramatically raising prices, a practice known as price gouging that is illegal in many states.
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Most US states have laws on the books that penalize merchants with steep fines and, in some cases, jail time for price gouging products like water and medical supplies during disasters and emergency situations.
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Meanwhile, Amazon is working to eliminate scams and block merchants from engaging in price-gouging, as uncertainty mounts about where else the virus will spread in the world and what impact it will have.
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" A spokesman for Pelosi didn't immediately return calls for comment, but he previously said the bill would provide "real negotiations that require HHS to reward genuine innovation, while protecting American patients from price gouging.
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I've been using it a lot over the past five, six months, and I think it's just, it's great because it's a slice of the internet that is still good and not gouging everybody.
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Mr. Gantz has made pocketbook issues the heart of his candidacy, promising to address income inequality, build new roads and affordable housing, add hospital beds, overhaul the education system and curtail consumer price gouging.
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In the report, Sarpatwari and his fellow authors noted that a way to fix this could be to import drugs from other countries with standards similar to the FDA's to keep price gouging from happening.
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Valeant Pharmaceuticals International new CEO, Joseph Papa, met with shareholders Tuesday at the company's annual meeting, outlining his stabilization plan to rebuild the company's reputation amid accusations of accounting abnormalities, price gouging and channel stuffing.
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In March, Left said on "Fast Money" that Mallinckrodt makes Valeant look like a "choirboy" in comparison and that Mallinckrodt's drug Acthar, used to treat seizures in babies, is the "poster child" of price gouging.
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Barrett pleaded guilty and was sentenced to two and a half years in prison for gouging the peephole out of Andrews' hotel room door, secretly filming the star and then posting the explicit footage online.
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Where it stands: Maryland's bill has the most momentum so far, and the effort is partially a response to the defeat of the state's proposal to counter "price gouging," which was knocked down in court.
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The 25-year-old illustrator recently moved to San Francisco and instead of settling for some landlord's price-gouging, he found some other cool kids who let him build a box in their living room.
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Mylan CEO Heather Bresch struggled Thursday to justify the repeated big price hikes of the company's lifesaving EpiPen devices as criticism continued that Mylan is gouging consumers with a retail cost of more than $600.
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Mylan has "a monopoly on the market and they are price-gouging and people could die from this because parents have to make this awful choice on whether they can buy the drug," Friscia said.
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Investment bankers attribute the slowdown to weak biotech stock prices, which have traded down as much as 30 percent after Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton vowed to act against pharmaceutical "price gouging" late last year.
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With 118,000 signatures asking Congress to "stop the EpiPen price gouging" and everyone from Hillary Clinton to Sarah Jessica Parker weighing in, drug maker Mylan has said it will reduce the cost for some users.
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The plan isn't anything too radical for Apple, just a combination of existing programs mostly, but combining generous trade-in offers with an installment plan that isn't gouging cash-strapped customers is awesome to see.
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The Nasdaq Biotech Index is down nearly 30 percent since September, when Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton criticized drug companies' "price gouging" on Twitter and sparked concerns about a government crackdown on rising drug costs.
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"As of our last tally this morning, we have 600 complaints pertaining to Hurricane Harvey (including scams, fraud, price gouging and charities), and that number is still rising," spokeswoman Kayleigh Lovvorn wrote in an email.
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"As of our last tally this morning, we have 220006 complaints pertaining to Hurricane Harvey (including scams, fraud, price gouging and charities), and that number is still rising," wrote spokeswoman Kayleigh Lovvorn in an email.
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Though I do believe Big Pharma is the worst actor in the drug price gouging of the American people, we need to ensure we're considering the actions of all players in the drug supply chain.
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Sutter Health, a system in California that is facing lawsuits alleging price-gouging and anticompetitive behavior, paid out $9 million in fees to Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo and others after issuing $1.4 billion of debt.
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A Best Western hotel is accused of gouging an estimated 40 customers, according to Texas television station KXAN, which reported that rooms that normally cost $120 to $149 a night were suddenly priced at $289.
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The results come in the wake of widely publicized cases of drug price gouging, most notably for Turing Pharmaceuticals' anti-parasite drug Daraprim and Mylan's EpiPens, designed to prevent death after a severe allergic reaction.
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Three Plattsburgh, New York, taxi cab companies will pay financial penalties for taking advantage of illegal immigrants fleeing the United States for Canada through practices including price gouging, the New York Attorney General's office said.
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The AUSTRAC lawsuit comes as Australia's retail banking system seeks to rebuild its reputation after a stinging a public inquiry found it had a culture of widespread profiteering, customer fee-gouging and slipshod regulatory oversight.
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"To Purell and Mr. Amazon and Mr. eBay, if you continue the price gouging, we will introduce our product, which is superior to your product, and you don't even have the floral bouquet," Cuomo said.
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Last week, the consumer products lobbying group raised concerns with the Department of Justice on price-gouging around hand sanitizer and other products in short supply, and the Department pledged to hold accountable bad actors.
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OfferUp, a Craigslist and eBay competitor that allows users to sell second-hand goods, told Business Insider about the plans late Friday after earlier inquiries about the company's efforts to stop users from price-gouging.
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A scene depicting a man gouging the eyes of a teenage boy prompted the first walkout, which was followed by another when another character faced a gory and violent death on screen, according to Brooks.
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The Eagles are vying for the final playoff spot in the N.F.C., with the Seahawks already in after gouging Kansas City for 235 rushing yards, and 26 in all, in their 173-217 victory Sunday.
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As people panic buy Purell and other off-label antibacterial gels (including third-party sellers who are price gouging consumers), it's creating a serious issue for hospitals who rely on it to safely treat patients.
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The deal reduces competition for sales of seeds and chemicals to farmers struggling with low crop prices, raising the risk for price gouging, said Wenonah Hauter, executive director for Food & Water Watch, an advocacy group.
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An Amazon spokesperson said the company has zero tolerance for price gouging on the site and said Amazon has removed hundreds of thousands of offers from sellers that it accused of charging customers unfair prices.
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Since then, a rush on masks has led to price-gouging and reduced inventory, leaving actually sick patients, their families, and the public at risk, and medical institutions scrambling to contend with log-jammed supplies.
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"The bill will protect millions of renters from rent-gouging and evictions and build on the Legislature's work this year to address our broader housing crisis," Newsom, Chiu, and legislative leaders say in a statement.
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Senator Ed Markey, the Democrat from Massachusetts, sent a letter to Amazon earlier this month asking about price gouging, and attorneys general across the country say they have received hundreds of complaints about the practice.
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Elected officials have raised the alarm that citizens stuck in over a dozen countries are feeling abandoned, unable to secure their return to the U.S. and victim to steep price gouging for any remaining flights.
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The governor showed off gallons of the liquid — grandly unveiled from behind a thick curtain — at his now-daily coronavirus briefing and presented it as a novel solution to price-gouging of name-brand sanitizer.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's police authorities have handled 274 cases of illegal commercial practices such as price gouging and hoarding during the coronavirus outbreak, an official with China's public security bureau told a briefing on Friday.
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The attorney general encouraged people who see price gouging for fuel, water and other essentials to take photos of the establishment's name, the price they are charging and file a complaint at my myfloridalegal.com. Gov.
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More than 50 Democratic lawmakers called on the White House on Monday to take stronger action against companies accused of price-gouging prescription drugs, suggesting that officials could be doing more with their existing powers.
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Last year, the state passed a price gouging measure, which lets the attorney general take legal action if the price of an off-patent or generic drug drastically increases — a first-of-its-kind measure.
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Sen. Ed MarkeyEdward (Ed) John MarkeyMarkey questions Amazon on price gouging due to coronavirus Hillicon Valley: Democrats in talks to bridge surveillance divide | DHS confident in Super Tuesday election security | State pledges M cyber help to Ukraine | Facebook skipping SXSW amid coronavirus Markey presses facial recognition company over Middle Eastern marketing, potential child privacy violations MORE (D-Mass.) is asking Amazon for answers on price gouging on its platform amid reports of some items facing up to 28503,22020 percent markups as the coronavirus spreads globally.
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First, the company jacked up the price of the product from $57 in 0003 to roughly $600 in 2016 and had to testify in front of Congress about why the company was participating in price gouging.
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"Either those earlier dermatology sales were totally illusory, the product of channel stuffing and price gouging, or Valeant is losing share hand over fist to the competition, which in this business is mostly Allergan, " Cramer said.
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There's discussion on both the state and federal level about creating expert review boards to examine pricing and evaluate ways to reduce prices or focus on price gouging by requiring companies to justify huge price increases.
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Read More Cramer: Don't just listen to Carl Icahn on Apple Cramer watched Valeant's outgoing CEO Mike Pearson testify on price gouging this week, he wondered if the worst is finally over for all things pharmaceutical.
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"By significantly reducing funding by $69 million, the bill strips the FCC of critical resources needed to promote the public interest and in particular to prevent internet discrimination and protect consumers from price gouging," Forscey added.
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The likely return of U.S. economic sanctions has triggered a rapid fall of Iran's currency and protests by bazaar traders usually loyal to the Islamist rulers, and a public outcry over alleged price gouging and profiteering.
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"Price gouging like this in the specialty market is outrageous," Clinton tweeted in September, referring to the now-infamous decision by Turing Pharmaceuticals to raise the price of a decades-old medicine by 5,000 percent overnight.
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The false promise of health savings accounts, which, without any effective constraints on corporate healthcare price gouging, primarily benefit the banking industry and higher income people, not those who can not afford to buy insurance now.
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Under that agreement, Uber said it would cap surge pricing during "abnormal disruptions of the market," such as weather, natural disasters, civil unrest, war, or a strike, that would activate the state's anti-price gouging laws.
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Perpetual's divestment, disclosed in an investor update, places further pressure on Australia's banking sector to clean up its act as a powerful inquiry airs allegations of bribery, fee-gouging and board-level deception across the industry.
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Comyn, 42, is the first bank CEO to face questions at the Royal Commission inquiry which has heard allegations this year of industry-wide wrongdoing including fee-gouging, forgery and board-level deception of a regulator.
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Australia's top financial firms have had nearly A$40 billion wiped off their collective market value this year, as the inquiry unearthed systemic malpractice including alleged fraud, bribery, regulator deception, fee gouging and illegal telephone marketing.
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For all the kicking, screaming and eye gouging over "Medicare for All" and the Green New Deal, you may not have noticed that there's a generational as well as ideological battle brewing within the Democratic Party.
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In the last six months, Valeant has been accused of price gouging by Democratic presidential hopefuls Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonLewandowski on potential NH Senate run: If I run, 'I'm going to win' Fighter pilot vs.
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Maryland recently enacted a law prohibiting price gouging on off-patent and generic drugs, and authorizing the state to prosecute companies that engage in price hikes high enough to "shock the conscience" of any reasonable consumer.
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As of Friday afternoon, Texas authorities had received 20113,992 complaints about price gouging and fraud, with 636 of the complaints about gas stations overcharging customers, said Jennifer Speller, a spokeswoman for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
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They're navigating a newly formed unofficial gray market, wary of fraud and price gouging by going through these nonstandard channels but also desperate to provide anything that might give doctors and nurses even a slight advantage.
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Given the shortage of masks in the US and the resulting price-gouging, US officials have warned the public not to hoard masks, particularly N95 respirators, so that they remain available to those most at risk.
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In response to concerns over availability and price gouging, Mr. Cuomo said the state had asked Corcraft, a state entity that uses prison labor to manufacture products, to make 100,000 gallons of hand sanitizer a week.
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The beatings start at about 22 minutes in, and Arya takes off her face and becomes a little killing machine about a minute-and-half later, gouging out his eyes, stabbing him and slitting his throat.
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In that battle, a much younger and faster dragon named Moondancer took Sunfyre down, nearly tearing its half-healed broken wing from its body, gouging out an eye and ripping mouthfuls of flesh from its neck.
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On March 19, it announced the same policy for hand sanitizer, surface disinfecting wipes, and COVID-19 test kits — all items that brought potential price-gouging and scamming amid panic-buying — in ads and commerce listings.
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"There is no place for price gouging on Amazon, and we will not tolerate attempts by bad actors to artificially raise prices on basic need products during a global health crisis," Amazon said in the letter.
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Several lawmakers are calling on the Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate reports of price gouging among airlines offering flights out of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands in the wake of Hurricane Maria. Rep.
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The study also promised that killing net neutrality rules (like restrictions that prohibited ISPs from throttling or price gouging streaming competitors like Netflix) would deliver tens of billions in additional ambiguous benefits to the American consumer.
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Amazon has reportedly sent warnings to sellers of medical face masks on its platform who it says are not in compliance with its policies, warning that price gouging will result in their removal from the marketplace.
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"Drug companies boost their profits by gouging patients, increasing costs for life-saving drugs like EpiPens without explanation or regard to those who need these drugs to survive," Steyer wrote in a Medium post in September.
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Warren's use of the $25 billion in annual revenue as a measure is notable because currently, antitrust enforcement largely depends on complex and ambiguous legal tests around factors like market share and evidence of price gouging.
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"I am crying out and asking for you to review the pharmaceutical price gouging," said Ms. Worsham, who has formed a nonprofit group to raise awareness and provide financial help to those who cannot afford treatment.
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Many student debt relief companies are "price-gouging," said Josuwiet, though his company is interested in whether borrowers would be willing to pay a small fee, like $40, to have their repayment plan applications completed for them.
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His minions enjoy torture for its own sake — though they prefer the tried-and-true "pitchfork and eye-gouging" approach, rather than Michael's new-fangled idea of having damned souls torture each other through petty interpersonal conflict.
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They are finding other ways of gouging the engine-makers, too, for instance by forcing them to pay billions of dollars to help develop new planes in exchange for the exclusive right to supply engines for them.
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However, the stock has dropped 60 percent in the last half a year after the Justice Department, the Securities and Exchange Commission, three state agencies and two congressional committees launched investigations on reported price gouging in 2015.
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Given the strong bipartisan support for many of these reforms and other patient protections, health-care's special interests are faced with a moral dilemma: Do they stand with patients or with providers who are price gouging them?
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This, in turn, compromises our ability to source steel rapidly in a crisis and puts our security in the hands of other countries by subjecting us to their potential supply disruptions, quality control issues and price gouging.
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In 85033, Russian gas king Gazprom was accused of using price gouging on Eastern European countries like Estonia, Latvia, Poland, Bulgaria and Lithuania, who, at the time, relied on Russian gas for over half of their needs.
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Price gouging is exactly what Canadian physician Frederick Banting, who helped discover the life-saving properties of insulin in 1921, tried to avoid when he and his colleagues sold the patent, without their names, for one dollar.
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The film has all the classic horror movie tropes, (someone living in the walls of a sorority house, eye gouging, alcoholism, incest), but there was one scene in particular that freaked me out for years to come.
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The warnings come on the same day that the Consumer Brands Association sent a letter to Attorney General William Barr urging him to crack down on third-party price gouging of items like hand sanitizer and masks.
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But this is actually more like one of those advisory boards that tells a corporation just how much it can get away with without bad "optics" as far as price gouging, layoffs, pollution and what have you.
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Retailers including Amazon have taken steps to fight price gouging from sellers in recent weeks, though many brick-and-mortar stores have reportedly fallen victim to hoarders buying large quantities of goods for the purpose of resale.
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Amazon has also announced it's working with state attorneys general to fight a surge in price gouging on its platform after third-party sellers started jacking up the prices of items like face masks and hand sanitizer.
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Keith Bansemer, the president of My Patriot Supply, another disaster prep and survivalist online store that specializes in emergency food and water filtration services, told BuzzFeed News that he's seen price gouging on eBay and other sites.
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If Democrats retake the House, the gavel of the Health Subcommittee of the Ways and Means Committee could go to Representative Lloyd Doggett of Texas, an unyielding critic of what he calls price gouging by pharmaceutical companies.
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Today they are more readily associated with rampant price gouging, the worst drug overdose epidemic in modern history and a steady beat of cases similar to the talc-cancer one, in which profitable products caused real harm.
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BEIJING, Feb 21 (Reuters) - China's police authorities have handled 274 cases of illegal commercial practices such as price gouging and hoarding during the coronavirus outbreak, an official with China's public security bureau told a briefing on Friday.
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The White House warned Thursday that price gouging "would not be tolerated" in Texas as tens of thousands of displaced individuals seek food and supplies in the wake of intense floods that have devastated the Gulf region.
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Danica Roem — a Democrat who was elected last month to the House of Delegates after campaigning on the issue of traffic congestion — said the tolls seen this week amounted to price gouging and called for a cap.
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An original 21th-century map would have been made by gouging an image into a piece of wood, removing anything not to be printed, and then inking it and pressing a piece of paper onto the relief.
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Amy KlobucharAmy KlobucharHillicon Valley: Coronavirus deal includes funds for mail-in voting | Twitter pulled into fight over virus disinformation | State AGs target price gouging | Apple to donate 85033M masks State AGs urge online retailers to crack down on coronavirus price gouging Biden's general election strategy comes into focus MORE (D-Minn.) and Kamala HarrisKamala Devi HarrisBiden's general election strategy comes into focus Biden says he has 'short list' of potential women for VP pick Progressive advocates propose T 'green stimulus' plan MORE (D-Calif.), as well as Rep.
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"These people are sometimes the victims of price gouging in a marketplace that lacks a lot of transparency," said Martin Makary, a professor of surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the study's senior investigator.
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Without practical regulation to restrain companies like Comcast—which is famous for price gouging—the industry is free to run roughshod over the American consumer and small business owners; namely by throttling and censoring online content and services.
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" The London Times newspaper deemed it the best "Star Wars" movie yet, calling it a "film of wit and wonder, of eye-gouging visual spectacle, and one that is buttressed by entirely unexpected, and frequently devastating, emotional power.
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We're told Demi donated 50,000 bottles of water to the food bank after hearing about price-gouging in the area -- and she set up a fundraising initiative with the food bank after donating $50k of her own dough.
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The Association for Accessible Medicines, a generic industry trade group that filed the lawsuit, argues that the law is unconstitutional because it does not define price-gouging and amounts to intervention by an individual state in interstate commerce.
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Nowhere is this process of reform more perilous than in the world of prescription drugs, which has recently come under fire for highly publicized instances of price gouging, as well as inflammatory comments by CEOs like Martin Shkreli.
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Though the "Royal Commission" inquiry ultimately left the structure of the banking industry intact, it cost several top bankers their jobs amid allegations of rampant fee-gouging and brought intense scrutiny to the regulatory system that enabled it.
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Grubhub CEO Matt Maloney said in a earnings call this week, "The price gouging in our industry... I'm concerned that it will dramatically slow the growth of our industry," calling out competitors for high delivery fees and charges.
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Though gouging out one's own eyes—known technically as self-enucleation—is a rare occurrence, there have been at least 50 documented cases in medical journals over the last half-century, according to the British Journal of Ophthalmology.
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On the contrary, price gouging was not correlated with charity care and when prices were compared against the gold standard heart surgery outcomes in the Society of Thoracic Surgeons database, there was no association between price and quality.
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I remember a monstrous tangle of arms and legs and fists, with me at the bottom, gouging at eyes and doing my utmost to mangle throats, but I arrived at the facility without a scratch or a bruise.
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There is also no mention of the price gouging of naloxone products by pharmaceutical companies, nor any plan to address this enormous problem for community-based harm reduction providers and first responders who cannot afford the exorbitant prices.
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Orange is the New Black shines a light on the dangers of private prisons, while Stranger Things makes clear what every good communist is taught from birth: capitalism breeds monsters — not only profit-gouging landlords, but demogorgons, too.
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It can be hard to save money on hurricane supplies if you didn't purchase them in advance of the season with deals and coupons — especially as supplies run low and price gouging takes effect while the hurricane looms.
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"In typical fashion, Albany back-room dealing rewarded a special interest — the price-gouging hotel industry — and ignored the voices of tens of thousands of New Yorkers," said Josh Meltzer, head of the company's New York public policy.
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Cuomo did not announce a timetable for a wider release of the sanitizer, though he did threaten Amazon and eBay that he would "introduce" the product if the companies continued to permit price gouging on their online platforms.
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Online vendors like Amazon and eBay have already taken measures to halt price-gouging on items like hand sanitizer and protective masks, and sketchy vendors are hawking coronavirus protection kits that don't do much by way of protection.
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Andrew Cuomo said Sunday that the federal government needs to nationalize the purchase of needed medical supplies, adding that the shortage of personal protective gear like masks and life-saving equipment like respirators is leading to price gouging.
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Earlier this week, Markey wrote a letter to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos seeking more information on what steps the company is taking to crack down on price gouging and how it determines whether an item is unfairly priced.
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LISBON (Reuters) - Portugal's Socialist government has warned crisis-hit Venezuela that bilateral ties could be at risk over its jailing of Portuguese supermarket managers on charges of gouging food prices and demanded that the problem be resolved swiftly.
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Though Ok was never big enough to have a proper gouging snout, it nonetheless did its small bit to carve out Iceland, a country where every feature of the landscape had history, and a tale, embedded in it.
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Amid complaints of airlines taking advantage of those trying to flee Hurricane Irma, Senators Richard Blumenthal and Edward J. Markey have written to Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao, asking her to look into reports of possible price gouging.
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In a speech in April, he said the government would look into the causes of the soaring costs and crack down on middlemen for price gouging, with limits on what people could charge for certain fruits and vegetables.
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"Hotels — including one executive who operates Kimpton hotels — have specifically expressed concerns about Airbnb preventing them from charging 'gouging rates' and taken credit for lobbying Members of Congress to lobby the FTC," he said in an emailed statement.
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What Shkreli needs to watch out for is how his price-gouging of live-saving drugs might shape his status in an institution where there is a moral code—a hierarchy—albeit not one most Americans are familiar with.
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If American-owned ships could count on windfall profits derived from price gouging arising every time a hurricane causes acute fuel shortages in a coastal location, that would support the creation of a slightly larger stock of domestic boats.
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According to the Attorney General, the price-gouging statute makes it illegal during an emergency to sell items such as gas, food, water and hotel rooms for prices that "grossly exceed" the average price during the previous 30 days.
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Martin Shkreli, the eccentric former pharmaceutical CEO notorious for a price-gouging scandal and for his snide "Pharma Bro" persona on social media, was convicted Friday on federal charges he deceived investors in a pair of failed hedge funds.
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The Fertittas — who inherited Station Casinos from their father and later expanded into UFC and now a private investment firm — say they established new fighting rules to get acceptance from state athletic commissions (no more eye-gouging, for example).
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Because if the Switch turns out to be as successful as the NES Classic or 3DS have been, fans could be facing yet another tough choice between a long wait or a grey market gouging for a Nintendo console.
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"States that attempt to regulate transactions outside of their own borders will face constitutional scrutiny," said Jeff Francer, general counsel of the Association for Accessible Medicines, which represents generics manufacturers and joined the lawsuit against Maryland's price-gouging bill.
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Mylan CEO Heather Bresch struggled in a CNBC interview Thursday to justify the repeated big price hikes of the company's lifesaving EpiPen devices as criticism continued that Mylan is gouging consumers with a retail cost of more than $600.
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WASHINGTON, Feb 19 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected Maryland's bid to revive a law aimed at preventing price gouging by pharmaceutical companies, dealing a setback to the power of states to rein in prescription drug costs.
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So they invent an issue, claim that the product is priced excessively by the other industry or group, and propose that regulations or price controls are needed to force the other side to stop "gouging" consumers on this product.
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Donald J. Trump's charitable foundation will not be paying any of the $25 million settlement to resolve a series of lawsuits concerning Trump University, the president-elect's defunct for-profit education venture that drew customer complaints about price gouging.
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The money will also allow for the hiring of additional personnel and the monitoring of businesses to fight against price gouging as citizens begin to buy additional supplies in preparation for a pandemic, per Department of Homeland Security guidelines.
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Despite Mr. Brafman's efforts to humanize Martin Shkreli, the boorish pharmaceutical executive notorious for price gouging, jurors convicted Mr. Shkreli in August on three counts of fraud relating to two hedge funds and a drug company he previously ran.
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With Americans panic buying provisions during the coronavirus outbreak, there have been numerous reports of stores price gouging in-demand products across the country, taking advantage of already stressed out shoppers who may be struggling to make ends meet.
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Things like hitting the groin and gouging the eyes are pretty easy to understand—no one wants undertaking a professional fighting career to be a commitment to being both blind and sterile by the time you are thirty-five.
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In a letter sent to the Amazon CEO on Wednesday, Markey asked Bezos to provide more information about what steps Amazon is taking to crack down on price gouging and how it determines whether an item is unfairly priced.
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Over the past few weeks, as the outbreak has spread from Asia to Europe to the US, Amazon has struggled to keep the most in-demand items in stock and to stop the price-gouging the shortages have caused.
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Amazon, eBay, Etsy, and other online retailers have also sought to limit price gouging and attempts at profiteering from people's fears, while Apple and Google have banned all coronavirus-related apps not from official sources from their app stores.
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A Tennessee man who hoarded over 17,000 bottles of hand sanitizer before being blocked from selling them recently donated the supplies after Tennessee's attorney general investigated him for price-gouging, according to a report for The New York Times.
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Key panels should also take up and advance solutions to address high launch prices and sole-source drugs that are often associated with egregious examples of price-gouging, and are ripe for bipartisan solutions to spur competition and transparency.
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It is easy to write off the drug industry as a pack of price-gouging Shkrelis unswervingly devoted to impoverishing cancer patients and clinical depressives and all the other mentally and/or physically unwell Americans struggling to pay for their pills.
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So far there have been over 3,000 complaints of people accusing stores of price-gouging during as residents prepare for the storm, the Orlando Sentinel reports, with the majority of the calls coming from Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties.
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These investments may give small practices an alternative to being bought by hospitals, "but, at least in some cases, the investors' strategy appears to be to increase revenues by price-gouging patients when they are most vulnerable," the authors write.
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Humanitarian groups working in conflict zones such as Afghanistan, Sudan and Somalia say that, compared with trucking supplies to remote areas, distributing cash cards allows them to bypass bribe-seeking militias and price-gouging by suppliers of goods and transport.
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Separately, judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei said special prosecutors would swiftly deal with economic crime, including profiteering from foreign exchange and gold dealings, illegal imports of luxury cars and price gouging on imported goods such as mobile phones, state media said.
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CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro said on Thursday that 34 supermarket managers had been jailed on charges of hiding food and gouging prices, in the leftist government's latest crackdown on businesses as the country struggles under a severe economic downturn.
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The photo, which was posted to Twitter Tuesday, showed 24-packs of bottled water selling for $42.96 and led to accusations the store was price gouging in the wake of extensive flooding and destruction wrought by the storm, CNBC reports.
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While the biotech sector has recently come under fire by politicians for price gouging, biotech CEOs say the conversation should focus less on placing blame and more on finding a proper balance in drug prices that allows for innovation and affordability.
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Sutter Health, a California-based network of hospitals and doctors, knowingly destroyed massive amounts of evidence that were relevant to a lawsuit that accuses the not-for-profit system of anticompetitive practices and price-gouging, Chad Terhune reports for California Healthline.
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The Spartans actually did allow both of these tactics, but since the Spartans never competed in international events because they would not risk losing to any non-Spartan, their eye-gouging and biting strategies remained legal only in their own country.
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"Once again, John Oliver nails it on the importance of strong open internet rules for our democracy and to prevent broadband price gouging," Chris Lewis, Vice President at DC-based digital rights group Public Knowledge, said in a statement late Sunday.
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"The FTC must investigate whether Mylan has maintained its monopoly position through the use of these exclusive supply contracts, enabling the company to engage in price gouging for EpiPens by blocking rivals from becoming effective competitors," they said in their letter.
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Early attempts to expand Japan's arms export business have produced tepid results; and in anticipation of rearmament, the branches of Japan's military have engaged in a wasteful struggle for funding — U.S. arms dealers have responded by price- gouging the Japanese government.
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LIVESTREAMING AND PRICE-GOUGING Some 200 million Americans reside within a day's drive of the totality zone, and as many as 7 million, experts say, are expected to converge on towns and campgrounds along the narrow corridor for the event.
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The remarks from Treasurer Scott Morrison demonstrate the increasingly strident tone the conservative government is taking with an industry it has traditionally supported, as a powerful public inquiry airs allegations of fraud, deception and fee-gouging across the finance sector.
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The two executives at the helms of those firms when rampant fee-gouging and other abuses were taking place, former CBA boss Ian Narev and AMP's Craig Meller, have moved on without being publicly grilled by barristers assisting the inquiry.
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He also wants to restore a White House office that oversaw responses to global health crises — an office that the Obama administration created and the Trump administration eliminated — and direct the Justice Department to combat price gouging for medical supplies.
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OfferUp on Friday said it planned to remove all hand sanitizer, toilet paper, protective masks, and disinfecting products from its app and website, regardless of price, to discourage users from price gouging and taking advantage of people during the coronavirus crisis.
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Mylan's EpiPen - the center of one of the many blistering scandals on Big Pharma price gouging - is getting hammered in the market, as competitors have burst on the scene, and as health insurers and prescribing physicians have gotten the memo.
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Its sabotage efforts in 2018 included cutting off subsidy reimbursement payments for low-income enrollees (the cost of which insurers pass along to unsubsidized consumers), slashing the marketing budget by 90 percent and gouging the outreach-assistance budget by 40 percent.
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He held a teleconference on Monday with the Kremlin's representatives in the regions, endorsing Mayor Sergei Sobyanin's lockdown decree as "justified and necessary" while presenting himself as the defender of ordinary Russians by ordering a crackdown on speculation and price-gouging.
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Andrew Cuomo said Sunday that the federal government needs to nationalize the purchase of needed medical supplies and said the shortage of masks and other lifesaving equipment such as respirators is leading to price gouging, as states compete with each other.
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Currently, over 82,000 people in the United States have contracted the coronavirus, and hospitals are running short on masks that cost less than a dollar to make but have already been subject to at least one instance of price-gouging.
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A perfect storm of a rapid onset of the virus, a slow national response, rising demand, equipment hoarding and price gouging has led to nationwide shortages of gloves, masks and face shields, not to mention more complicated equipment like respirators.
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Elissa SlotkinElissa SlotkinStates see surge of scams, price-gouging tied to pandemic Juan Williams: Biden's promises on women are a big deal Sanders looks to regain momentum in must-win Michigan MORE (D), who answered consumer calls over the weekend.
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"Thanks to social media, everything companies do is under a microscope, and positive moves go a long way in maintaining a positive brand image, especially when there is negative backlash about airline price gouging going on right now, " he said.
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Most Americans recognize that prices are too high, and are bothered by the rise of pharmaceutical price gouging: the giant price increase for decades-old drugs and devices by the likes of Martin Shkreli with Daraprim or Mylan with the EpiPen.
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Moreover, the political optics of instituting an admissions fee could impact Mayor de Blasio's re-election campaign, especially if the museum is seen as gouging tourists or reversing a historic principle of making a cultural institution free to the public.
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The Better Deal plan lays out specific policy proposals, including creating a new agency that could fine "price gouging" drug companies, allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices and require drug companies to submit justifications to the government for significant price increases.
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Rules that regulate industries like oil or transportation, where dominance is measured in physical goods and price gouging, don't as easily apply to services that are digital, are often free and rely on people's attention and data more than infrastructure.
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Australia's top financial firms have had nearly A$40 billion ($29 billion) wiped off their collective market value this year, as the Royal Commission inquiry unearthed systemic malpractice including alleged fraud, bribery, regulator deception, fee gouging and illegal telephone marketing.
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COM SAYS HAVE BEEN PARTNERING DIRECTLY WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES TO COMBAT PRICE GOUGERS - BLOG * AMAZON - SHARING INFO WITH STATE AGS, FEDERAL REGULATORS ABOUT SELLERS IT SUSPECTS ENGAGE IN PRICE GOUGING OF PRODUCTS RELATED TO COVID-19 CRISIS Source text : bit.
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Amy KlobucharAmy KlobucharHillicon Valley: Coronavirus deal includes funds for mail-in voting | Twitter pulled into fight over virus disinformation | State AGs target price gouging | Apple to donate 10M masks State AGs urge online retailers to crack down on coronavirus price gouging Biden's general election strategy comes into focus MORE (D-Minn.) and Ron WydenRonald (Ron) Lee WydenHillicon Valley: Coronavirus deal includes funds for mail-in voting | Twitter pulled into fight over virus disinformation | State AGs target price gouging | Apple to donate 10M masks Senate includes 0M for mail-in voting in coronavirus spending deal Hillicon Valley: Facebook reports huge spike in usage during pandemic | Democrats push for mail-in voting funds in coronavirus stimulus | Trump delays deadline to acquire REAL ID MORE (D-Ore.) that would boost the ability of voters to mail-in ballots, along with taking other steps to allow Americans to vote in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Or you could get a prescription for a bottle of virtually the same pills for almost $300, thanks to a pharmaceutical company using price gouging tactics similar to those of Pharma Bro Marin Shkrelli, according to a report from the Financial Times.
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Food has been used as punishment, like having wormwood to eat and poison to drink (Jeremiah) or what I thought of as price gouging on food during another famine (Kings 6:24) as punishment, but I hadn't thought about creating the bread.
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By tapping into a decades-old racial paranoia of foreigners weakening the citizenry, Ubl not only redirects attention from drug makers' price-gouging, he obscures the pharmaceutical industry's role in creating the greatest counterfeit drug crisis that exists today—the opioid crisis.
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Because the rough-and-tumble fighting was a conceit of rural communities, most of which did not have newspapers that wrote about the fights, accounts of 'gouging' typically comes from travelers who visited Virginia and the Carolinas to write about their misadventures.
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Saunders added that the performance of Allergan's stock stems from a change in shareholder base as a result of the Teva Pharmaceuticals deal and failed deal with Pfizer this year, bad publicity for the companies engaged in price gouging and the political season.
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But not everyone is getting good press: After a post accusing Air Canada of price-gouging flights from Fort McMurray to the Maritimes blew up online, dozens of residents expressed their anger with the airline for taking advantage of a tragic situation.
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Charging extra to those without good alternatives sounds like gouging, yet without surge pricing such riders would be less likely to get a ride at all, since there would be no incentive for all the other people requesting cars to drop out.
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Similarly, our country should not stand for a recent Trump administration attempt to roll back enforcement of the Military Lending Act, a 2006 law specifically designed to protect service members and their families from predatory lending, financial fraud and interest rate gouging.
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The proposal to weaken oversight under the Military Lending Act, which was created to protect military service members and their families from financial fraud, predatory loans and credit card gouging, came as a surprise to advocates of military families, the report stated.
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The obsidian was used in a wide range of tools including scrapers, implements with chisel and gouging edges and also in small points that could be placed at the end of a wood or bone shaft for use as a projectile weapon.
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