Rent gouging is understood as the practice of setting rent prices too high or raising rent to an “unconscionable price.” According to the State of California Department of Justice, “Price gouging ...

Pretty much everything is more expensive these days. While economic data shows inflation is slowing, few consumers are feeling any relief. In the past several months, we’ve received a bunch of reader ...

If you thought cracking down on price gouging was a key element of the Kamala Harris economic program — because she said as much in her economic speech a couple of weeks ago — it turns out you were ...

The vice president is leaning into an effort to partly blame big companies for inflation, as progressives have pushed her to embrace that argument. By Jim Tankersley Reporting from Washington Vice ...

Months after Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled a plan to punish oil companies for reaping large profits during a California gas price surge, his office has scrapped the legislation and is instead looking to ...