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Irma price gouging highlights sad truth: Consumer fleecing is the new normal

  • Written by Ramsi Woodcock, Professor of Legal Studies, Georgia State University
imageMany accused Delta, shown here over Tampa in 2014, and other carriers of price gouging ahead of Irma, but it's just business as normal.Drew Horne/Shutterstock.com

Since Hurricane Irma put Florida in its sights, there have been thousands of reports of price gouging on everything from water to gasoline.

The most notable complaint was not, however,...

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