competition
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Budgets/TaxesFeatured
New Data Shows Competition Is Making America Great Again
by Darren Brady Nelson April 25, 2018CPI fell slightly in March, along with a decline in the gasoline index.
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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
A Remedy for the Government-Sanctioned Monopolies: Google Facebook & Amazon
by Scott Cleland January 22, 2018Only three online intermediary platforms command bottleneck distribution control of ~90% of online demand and ~90% of offline supply.
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Critics of libertarians seem to worry most about our full-throated endorsement of and enthusiasm for the proven benefits of unhindered free-market competition. They believe that we are cynically defending a corrupt system of power and privilege, carrying water for capitalism’s exploiter class. There is, they argue, a need for governments, ostensibly pledged to “the greater good,” to intervene to counteract some of the perceived undesirable side effects of the free market system, which they say moves society toward inequitable accumulations of wealth in the hands of a few.
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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
FCC Privacy Regulation Claims: “Believe it or not!”
by Scott Cleland June 11, 2016With due credit to “Ripley’s Believe it or Not!®,”so much odd and bizarre is happening at the FCC in the “name” of “privacy” that the topic calls for its own collection of: “Believe it or Not!®” oddities.
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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
Google’s Growing US Search/Android Share Complicates FCC’s AllVid Proposal
by Scott Cleland May 29, 2016As more evidence comes to light exposing Google’s much increased search and Android dominance in the U.S. since the FTC closed its search and Android antitrust probes in January 2013, it only becomes clearer that the FCC’s AllVid proposed rulemaking to “Unlock the [set-top] Box” is obviously anticompetitive overall, not pro-competitive as the FCC naively claims.
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Budgets/TaxesFeatured
Governments Create Monopolies and Cause Worker Exploitation, Not Free Markets
by Richard Ebeling May 18, 2016The world is threatened with a renewed wave of anti-capitalism and anti-business sentiments and policies. Many who cheered the demise of Soviet communism in the early 1990s, presumed that this meant that, by default, the case for free markets and competitive enterprise had won in the battle of ideas. Over the last twenty-five years it has become clear that the same misguided arguments against free market capitalism constantly reemerge, like an ideological vampire waiting to rise from the intellectual grave and drain market freedom of its lifeblood by more government regulations and controls.
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Budgets/TaxesFeatured
Government Flutters Its Wings – and Industries Nationwide Are Blown Away
by Seton Motley March 10, 2016A Leftist governmental principle is the Butterfly Effect: “A property of chaotic systems…by which small changes in initial conditions can lead to large-scale and unpredictable variation in the future state of the system.”
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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
FCC’s Arbitrary Competition Policy — Edge Platforms Can’t Be Gatekeepers?
by Scott Cleland March 5, 2016Looking backwards at 1934-era Title II telephone utility law, the FCC concluded in its 2015 Open Internet Order that only broadband providers could be “gatekeepers” warranting net neutrality regulation to “protect and promote the “virtuous cycle” that drives innovation and investment on the Internet.”
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FeaturedLegal Affairs
What Road For America — Liberty Or Political Plunder?
by Richard Ebeling February 24, 2016Presidential election years, more than many others, focuses our attention on politics, those running for political office, and the promises the competing candidates make to sway our allegiance and votes toward one or some of them in comparison to others. They want us to give them political power by promising to use that power to benefit some of us in ways that can only come at the expense of others in society.
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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
The FCC Isn’t Neutral toward Silicon Valley’s Dominant Edge Platforms
by Scott Cleland January 9, 2016The world is watching and taking note of the FCC’s blatant competition double standard that totally favors America’s dominant edge platforms above most everyone and everything else.