Chloe Anagnos
Publishing Associate – 2017-2018
Chloe Anagnos is a writer and digital marketer and has been an AIER contributor since 2017. Her work has been the subject of articles in FOX News, USA Today, CNN Money, and WIRED. She has been a writer, commentator, and panelist for media outlets around the country on subjects like political marketing, campaigning, and social media. Follow @ChloeAnagnos.
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Walmart’s Mental Health Clinic Is Responding to the Market’s Needs
The market provides, even when nobody expects it to. That’s the lesson we’ve learned from Walmart, whose Texas mental health clinic is helping customers in need.
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Uber Responds to the Market, Invests in Making Rides Wheelchair-Accessible
Unlike public agencies, companies must adapt to make sure their consumers are happy. Otherwise, they go out of business.
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Indiana Residents’ Proposed Cigarette Tax Hike Will Only Boost the Black Market
But despite the campaigners’ enthusiasm for the idea, smokers are known for not smoking fewer cigarettes when prices rise. Instead, they either ignore the hikes or find different ways to get their hands on nicotine products — and that includes resorting to the black market.
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Officials Pour Bleach on Food for the Homeless “for Their Safety”
Claiming to be looking after the homeless’ safety, health officials said the food, which is prepared by volunteers at their own homes, is not good enough for people living on the street. After all, home-cooked meals could expose the needy to food-borne illness.
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Criminal Justice Reform Is Good for America
If Congress follows his lead and passes the piece of legislation in the following months, this will be the first time lawmakers take on the draconian sentencing practices that activists have long associated with the immoral war on drugs.
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Two Treatises On Competitive Currency and Banking by Lysander Spooner (full text), edited by Phil Magness
By making these lost Spooner treatises available again after more than a century in seclusion, it is my hope that they will both further our historical understanding of the time in which they were written and offer relevant insights to the evolution of economic ideas in the present day.
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An Economic Lesson From Kim Kardashian and Kanye West
Power couple Kanye West and Kim Kardashian West are not just leading by example by getting involved with criminal justice reform; they are also teaching the world a valuable lesson on the importance of free market mechanisms and how to save properties and lives.
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Airbnb in Trouble in Prague, Other Parts of Europe
Despite the warnings made by many economists who urge officials to rethink putting additional restrictions on home-sharing services, residents from other European countries have also been pressuring officials to “do something” about all the prosperity the services have helped to provide.
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No One Is Drugging Your Child’s Halloween Candy
Contrary to popular belief, police have never documented real cases of people randomly distributing poisoned candy to children on Halloween.
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Teen Vogue’s Naive Take on Capitalism
If you were to take Teen Vogue’s word for it, you would think that capitalism is “exploitative and leads to a brutally divided society that tramples the working classes in favor of fattening the rich’s wallets.”
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Walmart’s Mental Health Clinic Is Responding to the Market’s Needs
The market provides, even when nobody expects it to. That’s the lesson we’ve learned from Walmart, whose Texas mental health clinic is helping customers in need.
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•
Uber Responds to the Market, Invests in Making Rides Wheelchair-Accessible
Unlike public agencies, companies must adapt to make sure their consumers are happy. Otherwise, they go out of business.
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•
Indiana Residents’ Proposed Cigarette Tax Hike Will Only Boost the Black Market
But despite the campaigners’ enthusiasm for the idea, smokers are known for not smoking fewer cigarettes when prices rise. Instead, they either ignore the hikes or find different ways to get their hands on nicotine products — and that includes resorting to the black market.
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Officials Pour Bleach on Food for the Homeless “for Their Safety”
Claiming to be looking after the homeless’ safety, health officials said the food, which is prepared by volunteers at their own homes, is not good enough for people living on the street. After all, home-cooked meals could expose the needy to food-borne illness.
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•
Criminal Justice Reform Is Good for America
If Congress follows his lead and passes the piece of legislation in the following months, this will be the first time lawmakers take on the draconian sentencing practices that activists have long associated with the immoral war on drugs.
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•
Two Treatises On Competitive Currency and Banking by Lysander Spooner (full text), edited by Phil Magness
By making these lost Spooner treatises available again after more than a century in seclusion, it is my hope that they will both further our historical understanding of the time in which they were written and offer relevant insights to the evolution of economic ideas in the present day.
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•
An Economic Lesson From Kim Kardashian and Kanye West
Power couple Kanye West and Kim Kardashian West are not just leading by example by getting involved with criminal justice reform; they are also teaching the world a valuable lesson on the importance of free market mechanisms and how to save properties and lives.
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•
Airbnb in Trouble in Prague, Other Parts of Europe
Despite the warnings made by many economists who urge officials to rethink putting additional restrictions on home-sharing services, residents from other European countries have also been pressuring officials to “do something” about all the prosperity the services have helped to provide.
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•
No One Is Drugging Your Child’s Halloween Candy
Contrary to popular belief, police have never documented real cases of people randomly distributing poisoned candy to children on Halloween.
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•
Teen Vogue’s Naive Take on Capitalism
If you were to take Teen Vogue’s word for it, you would think that capitalism is “exploitative and leads to a brutally divided society that tramples the working classes in favor of fattening the rich’s wallets.”