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What kinds of legislation can be enshrined against supply scares like eggs and oil ,akin to monopoly/antitrust and price fixing measures?
Energy companies can now double profits, perhaps treble. Same as when the main egg co. saw 350% boost of net profit in hundreds of millions per quarter, during the egg scare.
We have monopoly and price fixing laws, it appears that a sweeping constitutional safeguard against scare based profit mechanisms, given that worst-case futures betting on scares, can reduce risk of pan-industrial recession.
What kinds of the laws should governments have to protect the general economy?
u/ConditionTall1719 — 1 day ago