> What’s the proposed regulation that would help here? Price controls? They don’t work.

The proposed regulation would be that if a single company/industry buying up supply to the point it starts driving significant inflation for such and such goods, they would be severely restricted from doing so going forward.

The market will take care of itself. The Chinese are going use this to ramp up and build more memory, and some companies out there will take it in-house, In short, they won’t be caught with their pants down again.

The only thing the US could feasibly implement is forcing micron to allocate a certain amount of its production for consumer use

Barring any single company from negotiating to buy more than a certain percentage of a given existing market of goods would be a start. Companies would still be free to build their own factories/fabs if they didn't like it.

That, and putting Sam Altman in jail for being a lying fraudster.