No doubt, free market economies do love price increases but it's often at a level that could be viewed as price gouging to make money off someones misfortune. W

No doubt, free market economies do love price increases but it's often at a level that could be viewed as price gouging to make money off someones misfortune. Whether that's a truly bad thing is probably a longer conversation for a different day (is there a morality in the marketplace, and so on).