Vice President Kamala Harris delivers remarks during a campaign event in Detroit on Aug. 7. (Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post) “Price gouging” is the focus of Vice President Kamala Harris ...

Hurricane Helene has caused price-gouging complaints to surge in southeastern states. Price gouging involves hiking prices excessively on essential goods, often during emergencies. South Carolina ...

Vice President Kamala Harris is poised to unveil a proposal on “price gouging” for food and groceries on Friday. The move comes as Harris is trying to define her own economic agenda since she ...

"It's not easy to measure," Cabral said, noting that qualitative definitions risk being overly vague while quantitative ones ...

Such debates aren’t new. Price gouging is a practice that extends all the way back to Antiquity. The ancient Greek philosopher Plato prohibited craftsmen from “setting a greater price” than ...

Vice President Kamala Harris proposed a federal ban on price gouging for groceries. While details are light, it would allow the FTC to intervene when companies charge excessive prices. Trump ...

California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta accused real estate agent Iman Shaghyan this week of increasing the price of a Beverly Hills rental by more than 30% in the days after the Jan. 7 fires. It’s the ...

SIMON: But as NPR chief economics correspondent Scott Horsley finds, price gouging is not always easy to define or to police. Scott, thanks for being with us.

He described the price-gouging law as a necessary but not sufficient tool in the fight to protect tenants. Ultimately, he said, city and state prosecutors and lawmakers need to move quickly.

Officials give price gouging warning ahead of Hurricane Milton According to the Office of the Florida Attorney General, the state’s price gouging hotline has received 200 complaints, mostly ...

Central to Vice President Kamala Harris’ economic agenda is a proposal to combat “price gouging” on food products, an initiative aimed at tackling voters’ top priority in inflation, though ...

State bans define "price gouging" in various ways. Some measures establish a subjective set of criteria, such as a sudden and significant spike in prices; while others detail a specific numerical ...