7/1 Pricing in the News
Today's paper is a study in price control mechanisms failing from multiple directions simultaneously. A commodity benchmark was rigged. A supply-constrained meat market has prices that its own industry now calls permanent. A streaming platform changed a subscription mid-contract and drew a regulator. A rent freeze took effect and was immediately circumvented at the first vacancy. A decade of incumbent brand premium in the world's largest car market evaporated in the face of a
