Daily Economy
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What Amazon Really Means for Small Businesses
Amazon has changed the landscape for small retailers in for more interesting ways than a simple narrative can convey.
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What You Need to Know about the Great IP Dispute Between the US and China
For China to crack down on its supposed violators of IP, import US law as its own, permit US courts to enforce it, and acquiesce to every other point demanded by the US, even if these impossibilities were possible, would end in making its economy less free, less productive, and more dangerous for free enterprise.
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The Glory of Manhattan
Four million people, nearly all strangers to each other, are hurrying about to work and play, and doing so in ways that are remarkably orderly and productive — and all, of course, absent any overall design or direction.
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The Phenomenal Excellence of Bill Watrous
His talent produced the music that became the soundtrack to my life. He never knew that. None of us know who we influence and how.
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Your New Gas Can Still Doesn’t Work
Gas can regulations began in 2000, with the idea of preventing spillage. The notion began in California, spread, and was picked up by the EPA, which is always looking for new and innovative ways to mandate as much human misery as possible.
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Where Does the Idea That Deficits Don’t Matter Come From?
While Karl Marx has served as the supplier of the political slogans, the economist Michal Kalecki has provided the guidelines for the actual policy in many parts of the world.
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What Can the Canadian Robber Barons Teach American Historians?
Canadian “robber barons” were exactly like the American robber barons: largely a myth.
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Experts Say Amazon Has Its Eye on Acquiring Target
The Whole Foods brand has grown and Amazon’s stock soared. More importantly, this takeover woke up retail giants such as Kroger, whose stock suffered a great hit following the purchase. So when experts alerted the world early in 2018 that Amazon was going to purchase Target as well, everyone paid attention.
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Millennials Want to Buy Homes, but Student-Loan Debt Is Not Letting Them
This makes millennials the first generation in a while to be forced to postpone saving for homes simply because their student loans take up so much of their income. No wonder the growing debt related to higher education has now achieved “crisis” levels.
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You Can Now Rent Your Wardrobe — Another Miracle of the Sharing Economy
The sharing economy has made sharing our private property and time more than acceptable; it’s made it a glamorous occupation. As millennials transform side hustles into how they make a living, yet another aspect of our personal lives is becoming fair game: our closets.
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What Amazon Really Means for Small Businesses
Amazon has changed the landscape for small retailers in for more interesting ways than a simple narrative can convey.
-
•
What You Need to Know about the Great IP Dispute Between the US and China
For China to crack down on its supposed violators of IP, import US law as its own, permit US courts to enforce it, and acquiesce to every other point demanded by the US, even if these impossibilities were possible, would end in making its economy less free, less productive, and more dangerous for free enterprise.
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•
The Glory of Manhattan
Four million people, nearly all strangers to each other, are hurrying about to work and play, and doing so in ways that are remarkably orderly and productive — and all, of course, absent any overall design or direction.
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•
The Phenomenal Excellence of Bill Watrous
His talent produced the music that became the soundtrack to my life. He never knew that. None of us know who we influence and how.
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•
Your New Gas Can Still Doesn’t Work
Gas can regulations began in 2000, with the idea of preventing spillage. The notion began in California, spread, and was picked up by the EPA, which is always looking for new and innovative ways to mandate as much human misery as possible.
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•
Where Does the Idea That Deficits Don’t Matter Come From?
While Karl Marx has served as the supplier of the political slogans, the economist Michal Kalecki has provided the guidelines for the actual policy in many parts of the world.
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•
What Can the Canadian Robber Barons Teach American Historians?
Canadian “robber barons” were exactly like the American robber barons: largely a myth.
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•
Experts Say Amazon Has Its Eye on Acquiring Target
The Whole Foods brand has grown and Amazon’s stock soared. More importantly, this takeover woke up retail giants such as Kroger, whose stock suffered a great hit following the purchase. So when experts alerted the world early in 2018 that Amazon was going to purchase Target as well, everyone paid attention.
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•
Millennials Want to Buy Homes, but Student-Loan Debt Is Not Letting Them
This makes millennials the first generation in a while to be forced to postpone saving for homes simply because their student loans take up so much of their income. No wonder the growing debt related to higher education has now achieved “crisis” levels.
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•
You Can Now Rent Your Wardrobe — Another Miracle of the Sharing Economy
The sharing economy has made sharing our private property and time more than acceptable; it’s made it a glamorous occupation. As millennials transform side hustles into how they make a living, yet another aspect of our personal lives is becoming fair game: our closets.