[This piece has been published in Restoring America to highlight how a Democratic bill misdiagnoses the cause of inflation and stands to make it worse.]

It seems as though failed economic policies are doomed to repeat themselves. Fresh off the back of a House proposal for a new federal anti‐price gouging law targeting gas and energy, Senator Elizabeth Warren has introduced a more comprehensive bill to ban price gouging during emergencies. It is, to put it mildly, a mess.