Topic: Capitalism

How to Really End ESG

– September 13, 2024

“It’s incumbent upon ESG critics to advocate an alternative vision, not merely to fall in line with convention.” ~Russell Greene

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Slumming It: How Commerce Once Communed with Sin

– September 3, 2024

“The miracle of the modern economy owes as much to the accidental playhouse of 1576 as to the intentional jurisprudence of 1625 and the late-to-the-game Glorious Revolution in 1689.” ~Scott Drylie

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Users, Not Regulators, Decide When Google Will Fall

– September 3, 2024

“Congress should Google the benefits of economic freedom and also search up how to curtail the gargantuan levels of government spending…a bulging bureaucratic state is more costly for Americans than the growing success of our most innovative firms.” ~Kimberlee Josephson

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Interventions, Easy Money Run Amok

– August 27, 2024

“An obvious set of perverse incentives simply stimulate more risk-taking by corporate management and investment firms in the future, resulting in even bigger future bailouts down the road. At a certain point this strategy of holding the wolf by the ears will become untenable.” ~Richard Morrison

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Favor Monopolies over Federal Meddling

– August 23, 2024

“Thus, the monopoly status of a firm is not a problem if consumers are happy and entrepreneurs aren’t hampered. Moreover, competition is of no use if greater value can’t be attained or cost savings can’t be accrued.” ~Kimberlee Josephson

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DOJ Ruling on Google Ignores the Reality of Exclusive Contracts

– August 21, 2024

“Consumers clearly have options when it comes to search, but because they consistently choose one product over the other does not mean that the exclusive contracts indicate anticompetitive behavior.” ~Spence Purnell

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Why Corporate America’s Retreat from Social Activism Is Good for Everyone

– August 12, 2024

“While corporations are free to inject values into the workplace and support social and religious programs, they have no societal responsibility to do so. In fact, there are compelling reasons they should not be doing so.” ~Jon Miltimore

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Nike Takes Its Eye Off the Ball

– August 5, 2024

“Nike wanted to make an impact in the community, venturing beyond selling shoes and sports apparel. The results include a current 2-percent reduction in labor force.” ~Stefan Bartl

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Consumers (Sovereignly) Control Google

– July 9, 2024

“Every commercial choice — buying, selling, abstaining, using — is not just a transaction but a significant vote for who should produce what, when, where, and how.” ~Art Carden

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But Also What If?

– July 3, 2024

“The arrogance of those who wish to unleash the dogs of antitrust on CurrentlyDominant, Inc. prevents them from asking important follow-up questions.” ~Donald J Boudreaux

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Defense Manual for The War on Prices

– June 6, 2024

“The book advocates for a substantial policy shift toward minimal governmental interference, allowing market mechanisms to function unimpeded. Sadly, we are moving in the opposite direction.” ~Vance Ginn

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Our Kids Have No Economic Immune Systems

– June 5, 2024

“Kids are told they can do anything, that they are personally mighty and important. But they never have the experience of everyday effort and failure.” ~Michael Munger

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