Profiteering and price gouging laws are interesting, typically differ by state, and are typically limited to disaster markets. They're also tied directly to a p

Profiteering and price gouging laws are interesting, typically differ by state, and are typically limited to disaster markets. They're also tied directly to a period of time and fall under emergency order. So... similar, but also different. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_gouging https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_gouging Really, this is a coercive monopoly. Legal countermeasures fall under anti-trust law. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coercive_monopoly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coercive_monopoly