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  "path": "/voices/thought-leaders/in-this-economy-beware-price-caps-fuel-food/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-04-03T03:00:00.000Z",
  "site": "https://www.rappler.com",
  "tags": [
    "Business",
    "Editors' Pick",
    "Thought Leaders",
    "Voices",
    "Bam Aquino",
    "Department of Trade and Industry",
    "emergency subsidy program in PH",
    "energy and resource",
    "energy industry",
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  "textContent": "When prices are rising and people are hurting, politicians want to be seen doing something. Price controls are visible, immediate, easy to explain, and therefore popular. But the economics is clear: they almost always create more problems than they solve.",
  "title": "[In This Economy] Beware the allure of price caps on fuel and food"
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