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EN590 Commodities GroupMarket Analysis 2026-06-17T20:00:00.000Z
As readers of Adam Smith know, the market functions to provide consumers with goods and services at the lowest price (within limits set by law). Yet, several years ago, we submitted a piece claiming that restructuring the electricity industry had not produced noticeable consumer benefits, and the irate peer reviewer (we suspect a big shot restructuring maven ) retorted that you can’t prove a negative but added, “Who said that restructuring was supposed to benefit consumers?” On the first point, we simply opined that consumer benefits were not evident. (Maybe the situation would have been worse without restructuring, for all we knew, but evidence for benefits seemed limited). As for the second point, we took it for granted that the consumer was supposed to be the ultimate beneficiary, not m

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