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Virginia Gazette
February 27, 2018
In a TV interview with Phil Donahue some time ago, with Donahue espousing the drawbacks of capitalism, Milton Friedman, a top 20th-century free-market economist, explained: The only cases in recorded history where the masses have escaped grinding poverty is where capitalism and free markets haveÃÂ ...
The Hill
February 27, 2018
But the free-market groups said the IRS's exemption prevents Congress from getting information about major rules that should be reported to the Government Accountability Office while curbing the White House's ability to supervise the executive branch. The groups also said the IRS's current practiceÃÂ ...
Daily Herald
February 27, 2018
My economic opinions and approach were learned from reading and listening to the father of free market economics, Milton Friedman. He famously said, “When government — in pursuit of good intentions — tries to rearrange the economy, legislate morality, or help special interests, the cost comes inÃÂ ...
Foster's Daily Democrat
February 26, 2018
All this debate about teachers having guns, get rid of semi-autos or not. How to protect our schools etc. I have a solution that would end this debate about guns in our schools. It is called the free market. End public schooling altogether and let the free market decide. In a free market school system, you get toÃÂ ...
New Europe
February 25, 2018
While the Free Market and Capitalism have made our world so prosperous, out of this abundance has brought a magnitude criticism of the economic system that has brought so many people to places that they had once never dared to dream about. Many countries who have adopted this economic systemÃÂ ...
Business Insider
February 20, 2018
bitcoin A small toy figure is seen on representations of the Bitcoin virtual currency in this illustration picture, December 26, 2017. Reuters/Dado Ruvic. Members of the US Congress are pushing towards regulation of cryptocurrencies. Both Democrats and Republicans, even the strongest free-marketÃÂ ...
Splice Today
February 18, 2018
I've spent a lot of my youth criticizing free market ideology and its proponents. This time, however, here's a defense of it. Supply and demand are easy concepts. The way they interact and effects they produce are also simple to understand. The problem is to confuse theory with reality—to ignore empiricalÃÂ ...
The New Yorker
February 17, 2018
Commissioned by London's Royal Court Theatre, where it ran in 2013, the play is a historical parable that lampoons the eighteenth-century roots of free-market capitalism, with a cast of eighteen playing characters including Adam Smith. Norris described it as a parody of a Henry Fielding novel, charting aÃÂ ...
Journal Record
February 16, 2018
It's easy for insiders to support tax increases – much easier than it is for low- and middle-income families and small businesses to pay higher taxes. That's why this week the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs offered a revenue and reform plan. Our plan even received the endorsement of former U.S. Sen.
U.S. News & World Report
February 16, 2018
Two things happened after the FDA approved a novel new treatment for hereditary blindness in December, neither of which was surprising. First the company that makes the drug announced they would charge nearly a million dollars for it. Next, the uproar began. No one asked what the costs research andÃÂ ...
MacIverInstitute
February 15, 2018
Legislative committees have scheduled public hearings on several pro-free market bills covering everything from cookies and wine to dentistry and ... In a session that has seen a few assaults on liberty, Kooyenga asserts that Wisconsin shouldn't just be open for business, it should be open to free markets.
urbanmilwaukee
February 15, 2018
Foxconn chairman Terry Gou and Governor Scott Walker signing a memorandum of understanding. Photo from the State of Wisconsin. I once attended a talk by George Stigler, a Nobel-winning economist who was widely viewed, and who viewed himself, as a conservative, and given to a business audienceÃÂ ...
Reason (blog)
February 15, 2018
The students declared that Benson, an editor at Townhall and co-author of End of Discussion, a book about leftist hostility to free speech, is a supporter of "fiscal conservatism and free market ideology," which "enable white supremacist and fascist ideas." In defense of their position, the students cited aÃÂ ...
Business News Americas
February 13, 2018
Brazilian power use driven by free market. By Michael Place Monday, February 12, 2018. BNamericas. Notify me Bookmark. Share ... Brazilian energy use rose 2.2% in December, driven by rising demand in the free market segment, according to power market clearing .
American Banker
February 13, 2018
WASHINGTON — Continuing to pull back the reins on the aggressive approach taken under former Director Richard Cordray, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau unveiled a new strategic plan Monday that values consumer choice over heavy-handed enforcement. The new strategic plan, which laysÃÂ ...
Politics.co.uk (blog)
February 12, 2018
Free market fundamentalists are on the march again. The Policy Exchange think tank - which used to have a direct line to government and even now enjoys extraordinary influence - published a report this morning demanding Britain unilaterally reduce its tariffs as part of a potent newÃÂ ...
The Durango Herald
February 11, 2018
Rep. Tipton states he favors an economy anchored in low taxes and a free market. A free market is defined as a system in which prices are determined by an open market, in which the laws of supply and demand are free from intervention by government. In a free market, the market itself rewards successfulÃÂ ...
The Hill
February 10, 2018
In today's partisan environment, there is bipartisan agreement over one thing: Our health-care system needs big reforms to bring down costs and improve access to care. The question is how do we change it? It's clear the current system isn't perfect, but that shouldn't be an invitation for a single-payerÃÂ ...
Journal Record
February 9, 2018
Americans instinctively dislike monopolies, even rail against Big Oil, Big Pharma, Big Tobacco, Big Whatever. These have a modicum of competition. There is one monopoly, however, that government not only allows, it controls. I'm talking, of course, about Big Learning. The public school monopoly isÃÂ ...
Bulletin
February 9, 2018
According to Forbes, letting the free market flourish is crucial not only for the economy, but for worldwide society. Critics of capitalism may point to the exploitive effects of globalization, but, says Forbes, free markets breed humanity and cooperation. “Commerce has you reaching out to people you might notÃÂ ...
The National
February 8, 2018
The economic nirvana of the free market is to produce “perfectly competitive” markets to create the allocation of resources to the most effective user of that resource. The whole philosophy has a slight problem though, in that it is “total bollocks” (a technical term used to describe neo-liberal economic mantras,ÃÂ ...
The Phnom Penh Post
February 8, 2018
But yesterday he took credit for introducing free market economics to the country and continued a recent trend of dismissing the international community's contributions to Cambodia's rebuilding. “Please do not be confused. Do not say that the Paris Peace Agreement brought the market economic system toÃÂ ...
MacIverInstitute
February 8, 2018
Election year campaigning may cut this winter legislative session short, but conservatives say there's much to accomplish before lawmakers head home. And they say liberty and free markets should guide legislation the rest of the way. “We need to be consistent with our principles. We support free markets.
WAMC
February 8, 2018
It is axiomatic to suggest that presidents get more credit than they deserve when the economy does well, and more blame than they deserve when the economy goes south. However, in the case of President Trump he is given almost no credit for the soaring economic market, despite the fact his taxÃÂ ...
Vineland Daily Journal
February 7, 2018
The protesting of the new Lidl store in Vineland by United Food and Commercial Workers members places them in a negative light. America is a free-market economy, and that company has as much right to operate their business as does any other company. By doing so, they have created jobs for localÃÂ ...
The Guardian
February 6, 2018
The Coalition does not support requiring companies to lift wages in return for a corporate tax cut because such a plan would interfere with the free market, Mathias Cormann has said. The finance minister joins Bill Shorten and inequality experts in the labour movement in rejecting the idea, which has beenÃÂ ...
Journal Record
February 2, 2018
On Monday, Gov. Mary Fallin will deliver her final State of the State address to open the 2018 legislative session. For the governor in her final year in office, and for the Legislature in the second year of session, there's plenty of unfinished business. Gov. Fallin won her current office in 2010 on a wave of voterÃÂ ...
Western Producer
February 2, 2018
Two prairie-based processors have joined forces to take advantage of each other's strengths, particularly in the gluten-free market. Manitoba-based Best Cooking Pulses and Saskatchewan-based Avena Foods announced a partnership earlier this month. No financial details were disclosed. “The twoÃÂ ...
LifeZette
February 2, 2018
It is axiomatic to suggest that presidents get more credit than they deserve when the economy does well, and more blame than they deserve when the economy goes south. However, in the case of President Donald Trump, he is given almost no credit for the soaring economic market, despite the fact that hisÃÂ ...
Business Mirror
February 1, 2018
An interesting quote by Presidential Spokesperson Harry L. Roque Jr. has made the rounds of the Internet recently. According to him, if there were no fake news, people would not really get to know what true news is. Roque suggests that there should just be a “free marketplace of ideas”—that is to say,ÃÂ ...
Washington Examiner
January 31, 2018
From a purely economic perspective, President Trump had a lot to offer conservatives in 2017. Under the first year of his presidency, Congress successfully delivered the most comprehensive tax reform package since Reagan and the executive branch slowed the pace of regulatory growth. UnfortunatelyÃÂ ...
Independent
January 30, 2018
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | AFP | Africans have for years paid sky-high airfares when travelling within the continent but a major aviation trade agreement launched Monday by the African Union aims to change that. Twenty-three African countries have signed on to the Single African Air Transport MarketÃÂ ...
TheSpec.com
January 29, 2018
Developing countries signed up with the International Monetary Fund's structural adjustment programs (SAPs), gaining access to loans in exchange for adopting neo-liberal economic prescriptions. But a number of factors led to skepticism about free markets. One was the underwhelming developmentalÃÂ ...
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January 28, 2018
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Christian Post
January 28, 2018
(Photo: Reuters/Mark Blinch)Filmmaker Michael Moore speaks about his film ''Capitalism: A Love Story'' during the 34th Toronto International Film Festival, September 14, 2009. Would God prefer that our wealth be controlled by free people exchanging goods and services in a free market or by government? By a system thatÃÂ ...
publics.bg
January 24, 2018
The speculative and unfounded rise in electric energy prices will lead to bankruptcies, permanent loss of jobs and freezing of income levels in a number of industries, the Confederation of Independent Trade Unions of Bulgaria (CITUB) and the Confederation of Labour Podkrepa said in a joint statement.
Personal Liberty Digest
January 24, 2018
Edward K. Glassman, my long ago Harvard classmate, author of Dow 36,000 (predicting Dow at that level by 2005) and current director of the George W. Bush Institute, extols our free market medical system at Fox News this week. The first reader to comment on the article agrees that we have a “ freeÃÂ ...
The Straits Times
January 23, 2018
It seems unfair to single out the medical profession for special treatment after fee caps were removed and the genie has been out of the bottle and running amok for 10 years (Benchmarks for medical fees need more teeth, by Mr Paul Chan Poh Hoi; Jan 19). While it is disconcerting that medical fees areÃÂ ...
Economic Times
January 22, 2018
I can say that I am not very optimistic that this will happen but I hope the direction the country takes in general is less interference with the free-market structures and a stronger safety net. What I mean by that for example is we have a lot of government meddling in setting prices or floor prices or market pricesÃÂ ...
Aspen Times
January 22, 2018
Despite concerns, staff believe the proposal is moving in the right direction but are recommending that developers reduce the size of the suites and free-market units, and incorporate more traditional lodge rooms. The developers now are considering having the 18 lodge units average 969 square feet,ÃÂ ...
Agriculture.com
January 22, 2018
Voluntary conservation, boosted by USDA's cost-share programs, has “proved unable to achieve reduction in emissions large enough to meet water (quality) goals,” says the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). The free-enterprise think tank advocates “mandatory adoption of practices that reduce runoff.
NOQ Report
January 20, 2018
If you don't believe that free markets don't punish corporations (unless our government steps in and saves a few like GM and Chrysler), think again. Whatever happened to TG&Y, ALCO Stores, Montgomery Ward, Circuit City just to name a few. All of them went under, although Circuit City and Wards haveÃÂ ...
Observer
January 20, 2018
Though Patrik Schumacher built a towering career as the partner behind Zaha Hadid Architects, his reputation suffered a setback after a speech delivered at the World Architecture Festival in Berlin. Before a crowd of leading architects, urban planners and developers, Schumacher articulated a radicalÃÂ ...
Digital Journal
January 19, 2018
Pune, India -- (SBWIRE) -- 01/19/2018 -- databridgemarketresearch.com added "Global Lactose-Free Market Type (Lactose-Free, Lactose-Reduced Products), Application (Milk, Cheese, Yogurt, Baby-Foods, Ice-Cream), Distribution Channels (Supermarkets/Hypermarkets, Online Stores, Retails Stores), Geography andÃÂ ...
Journal Record
January 19, 2018
Is diversity a good thing? Last week, the Trump administration embraced diversity in how states run medical welfare programs. It's a smart move because it offers a chance to get smarter about how we help the poor. We learn, after all, when we watch different courses of action play out. Instead of being toldÃÂ ...
The Independent
January 18, 2018
Ministers should consider implementing the radical policy of a universal basic income, according to a new report by a free market think-tank. The Adam Smith Institute (ASI) claims there is rising evidence for basic income and calls on governments across the globe to experiment with the idea. The conceptÃÂ ...
The Inter-Mountain
January 17, 2018
BUCKHANNON — Goods and services will be offered at Sunday's upcoming Really, Really Free Market, and yes, everything is really free. ... a local RRFM came about when Heather Schneider and friends went on a hike, and one of her friends read a section of a book about Really, Really Free Market.
National Center for Public Policy Research
January 17, 2018
Over the past four years alone, FEP representatives have participated in over 100 shareholder meetings – advancing free-market ideals about health care, energy, taxes, subsidies, regulations, religious freedom, food policies, media bias, gun rights, workers' rights and other important public policy issues.
Record Delta
January 17, 2018
What is Really, Really Free Market? Is it welfare or charity? What's the catch? Is it something for upper middle class liberals to pat themselves on the back for? If that sounds gross to you, rest assured it does to a lot of people at RRFM, too. You work hard. Why would you want to give anyone a handout?
Fruitnet
January 16, 2018
Hort Innovation and statistics company Nielsen have partnered to produce a large series of insights in to consumer behaviour in the fresh produce sector. The newly launched Harvest to Home website will now host a regularly updated data bank, with a specific focus on vegetable, onion and sweet potatoÃÂ ...
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