Government control of an economy rarely, if ever, works as well as a free market. Canada's recent dairy scandal and the high price of lumber in the U.S. are prime examples. Are trade tariffs to blame for the swelling inflation? Steve Forbes on the real-world results of these artificially high prices and the critical economic lessons to be learned from them.

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