That suggests INDEC is now using some government-mandated prices rather than those that consumers actually pay.

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We see this here in Europe with pharmaceuticals: some countries have legally mandated low prices on certain drugs.

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He, too, is reluctant to see federally mandated minimum prices for key commodities.

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Such a "price-capped cellulosic RFS" approach protects consumers by offering them an effective ceiling while offering investors and producers assurance that all cellulosic fuels produced at these reasonable prices will be mandated.

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Obamacare-mandated reductions in payments to hospitals so drastic that hospital prices for both Medicare and Medicaid will be less than half those paid by private health insurers by the year 2040.

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When prices moved too far and too quickly, SEC-mandated rules halted trading, but not before damage was done to the markets and to their already tarnished reputations.

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During President Jimmy Carter's term, Tulis recalls, natural gas prices were inflated because the Administration predicted severe shortages and even mandated that gas be restricted to home heating and cooking.

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Big mistake No. 2: While deregulation mandated that utilities buy their power on the open market and pay market prices, it barred them from passing on increases to their customers until at least March 31, 2002.

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The Fed should be mandated to follow a price rule conducting monetary policy in accordance with sensitive market prices, such as gold and other commodities, maintaining the purchasing power of the dollar without inflation.

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