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		lalaland1125 on March 29, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft: Cloud services demand up, prioritizatio... I highly recommend that you read through the legislation. The legislation explicitly allows prices to increase due to actual increases in costs. The only thing that's banned is increases in price due to increased profit margins.

jefftk on March 30, 2020 | [–]

Price gouging rules also keep people from speculatively ramping up production at the stage where it might be needed but you're not sure yet: https://www.jefftk.com/p/price-gouging-and-speculative-costs

tracker1 on March 30, 2020 | [–]

In this case, they'd be likely to look at the upstream suppliers.

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