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market to exist and in effect shrug our shoulders about its 

 illegality, or (b) raise the ceiling price to the market price. 

 The latter would call for official approval of higher ceiling 

 prices and would cause the official index of prices our na- 

 tional barometer of inflation to rise. Since this is not 

 likely to happen in the near future, black markets will con- 

 tinue to be with us. 



