Price controls can derail markets. And subsidies can distort them.

格管会破坏市场，补贴则会扭曲它们。

Price controls on most prescription medicines are being lifted starting next month.

大部分处方药的格管将于下个月放开。

Economists call this idea of the government setting prices, price controls.

经济学家把这种政府定的想法称为格管。

Officials say the shortage will continue until the government lifts price control.

官方称在政府取消物之前，短缺状况将不会缓解。

Price controls, the expropriation of farms and anti-business policies have created food shortages.

物，征用农田，反对商业等政策已造成食物短缺。

Price controls, for example, make it unprofitable for many Venezuelan farmers to produce food.

举例来，格管使许多委内瑞拉生产粮食的农民无利可图。

Many Americans agreed with the idea of price controls. But every business wanted somebody else's prices controlled, not their own.

许多美国人同意物的想法。但每家企业都希望的是别家的售，而不是自己的。

One reason not to impose price controls is that they are so hard to remove.

不实施格管的一个原因是，格管很难取消。

Price controls have made growing sugar cane unprofitable and the country suffers from a shortage of foreign exchange.

物问题使委内瑞拉的甘蔗种植毫无利润可言，同时该国的外汇也严重不足。

The bank also recommends linking the removal of price controls with offsetting measures to help the needy.

世行还建议将取消格管和抵消措施联系起来以帮助需要的人。

Governments generally impose price controls for one of three reasons: to redistribute, stabilise or deflate.

为了再分配、稳定或或紧缩。

President Truman tried to stop the increases through a special price control agency that had been created during the war.

杜鲁门总统试图在战争期间建立特殊的格管机构来阻止格上涨。

Businesses were not the only ones who were refusing to obey government price controls. Organized labor did the same thing.

并非只有企业拒绝遵守政府的格管，有组织的劳工也拒绝遵守。

(known locally as " SUNDDE" ), the agency responsible for imposing price controls in Venezuela.

（当地称为“SUNDDE”），负责在委内瑞拉实施格管的机构。

He had removed some price controls on certain goods and in the food space.

他取消了对某些商品和食品领域的一些格。

Critics say the reason is easy to recognize: price controls.

批评人士， 原因很容易识别：格。

The price control program generally worked. Its success kept the American economy strong to support the troops fighting in Europe and Asia.

格程序通常很有效，它的成功保持了美国经济的强大，以支持在亚欧作战的军队。

When removing price controls, it helps to get the timing right. With ceilings, it is best to act when market prices are low.

当取消格管时，它有助于把握正确的时机。有了上限，最好在市场格较低时采取行动。

Store owners would tell government officials that they were obeying the price controls. But often they charged whatever they wanted for the goods they sold.

店主告诉政府官员，他们正在遵守格。但他们常常对所售商品，收取任何他们想要的费用。

The official annual inflation rate soared to 102.5% in February, the highest it has been since 1991 and despite price controls on more than 1,700 goods.

尽管对1700多种商品实行格管，但官方的年通胀率在2月飙升至102.5%，为1991年以来的最高水平。