Daily Economy
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Predatory Pricing: More Theory Than Reality
All governments and all courts everywhere would, if they were sincerely committed to keeping markets as competitive as possible, announce loudly and unconditionally that never again will they take accusations of predatory pricing seriously.
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Strong Jobs Report Supports a Favorable Outlook
Payrolls in the United States rose by 213,000 in June on widespread gains among industries. Combined with other strong economic data and the positive results from the AIER Index of Leading Indicators, today’s report suggests a positive outlook for the current expansion.
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Educators Need the Right to Try
We owe the next generation an educational environment with legal certainty and limited governmental interference that spurs a variety of educational options tailored to the different needs of parents and students.
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When “Democracy” Becomes a Threat to Liberty
Friends of freedom, including many of those who strongly believed in and fought for representative and democratically elected government in the 18th and 19th centuries, often expressed fearful concerns that “democracy” could, itself, become a threat to the liberty of many of the very people that democratic government was supposed to protect from political abuse.
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Walmart a Boon for the Hungry
Walmart critics should take a hard look and assess whether they are really for the well-being of the poor or just virtue-signaling the fashionable dislike of “obscene” profits.
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Trade Retaliation Is Unjustified and Unjust
These foreign-government interventions supply no good ethical excuse for “retaliation.” In fact, losing nothing to which they are entitled, home-country producers themselves act unethically when they demand that the home government inflict upon fellow citizens the same unjust depravations that foreign governments inflict upon their citizens.
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The Philosophical Reason for the Attacks on Free Speech
In the old days, people associated the Left with an ethos akin to the ACLU today: the right to speak, publish, and associate. The turn that took place with the New Left actually flipped whatever remaining attachment that the old left had with freedom.
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Peer-to-Peer Food App Makes Surpluses Go the Extra Mile
The founders’ ambitious goal is to see hundreds of millions of people around the world use Olio to share food, rather than chuck it in the bin.
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Background on the Janus Case
Should a person be forced to pay the equivalent of union dues that pushes a version of politics that he or she opposes? The Supreme Court has ruled: no.
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Adopt or Die: Financiers Embrace Crypto Transition
Fintech solutions are here to stay, whether banks want them or not. They shouldn’t forget that while banking is necessary, banks are not.
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Predatory Pricing: More Theory Than Reality
All governments and all courts everywhere would, if they were sincerely committed to keeping markets as competitive as possible, announce loudly and unconditionally that never again will they take accusations of predatory pricing seriously.
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•
Strong Jobs Report Supports a Favorable Outlook
Payrolls in the United States rose by 213,000 in June on widespread gains among industries. Combined with other strong economic data and the positive results from the AIER Index of Leading Indicators, today’s report suggests a positive outlook for the current expansion.
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Educators Need the Right to Try
We owe the next generation an educational environment with legal certainty and limited governmental interference that spurs a variety of educational options tailored to the different needs of parents and students.
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•
When “Democracy” Becomes a Threat to Liberty
Friends of freedom, including many of those who strongly believed in and fought for representative and democratically elected government in the 18th and 19th centuries, often expressed fearful concerns that “democracy” could, itself, become a threat to the liberty of many of the very people that democratic government was supposed to protect from political abuse.
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Walmart a Boon for the Hungry
Walmart critics should take a hard look and assess whether they are really for the well-being of the poor or just virtue-signaling the fashionable dislike of “obscene” profits.
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•
Trade Retaliation Is Unjustified and Unjust
These foreign-government interventions supply no good ethical excuse for “retaliation.” In fact, losing nothing to which they are entitled, home-country producers themselves act unethically when they demand that the home government inflict upon fellow citizens the same unjust depravations that foreign governments inflict upon their citizens.
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The Philosophical Reason for the Attacks on Free Speech
In the old days, people associated the Left with an ethos akin to the ACLU today: the right to speak, publish, and associate. The turn that took place with the New Left actually flipped whatever remaining attachment that the old left had with freedom.
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•
Peer-to-Peer Food App Makes Surpluses Go the Extra Mile
The founders’ ambitious goal is to see hundreds of millions of people around the world use Olio to share food, rather than chuck it in the bin.
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•
Background on the Janus Case
Should a person be forced to pay the equivalent of union dues that pushes a version of politics that he or she opposes? The Supreme Court has ruled: no.
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•
Adopt or Die: Financiers Embrace Crypto Transition
Fintech solutions are here to stay, whether banks want them or not. They shouldn’t forget that while banking is necessary, banks are not.