There is nothing unjust about these prices, So well explained; they simply reflect the value that buyers and sellers choose to place on the things theyexchange.6 Jeff Jacoby, a pro-market commentator writing in the Boston Globe , argued against price-gouging laws on similar grounds: "It isn't gouging to charge what the market will bear. It isn't greedy or brazen. It's how goods and services get allocated in a free society." Jacoby acknowledged that the "Price spikes are infuriating, especially to someone whose life has just been thrown into turmoil by a deadly storm." But public anger is no justification for interfering with the free market.