competition
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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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Health CarePodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – Meg Edison: A Free-Market Pediatrician and Mom’s View of EpiPen ‘Gouging’
by Michael Hamilton September 1, 2016Dr. Meg Edison is a pediatrician, food allergen baker, and mother of multiple children whose lives have been saved by the use of EpiPens. In this podcast, Edison joins Health Care News Managing Editor Michael Hamilton to help listeners identify the real culprit in the EpiPen price scandal.
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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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Budgets/TaxesFeaturedPodcast
In The Tank Podcast (ep41): Independent Women’s Forum, Ranking States, Unemployment Rates, and Tax Competition
by Donald Kendal June 3, 2016John and Donny continue their exploration of think tanks in #41 of the In The Tank Podcast. This weekly podcast features (as always) interviews, debates, and roundtable discussions that explore the work of think tanks across the country. The show is available for download as part of the Heartland Daily Podcast every Friday. Today’s podcast features work from the Independent Women’s Forum, the Mercatus Center, The Rhode Island Center for Freedom and Prosperity, and Reason.
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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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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
Goobris: Google Expecting Less Privacy Regulation than its Competitors
by Scott Cleland May 15, 2016Why does the company that by far collects the most private information that the FCC claims it wants to protect, and that also has the worst consumer privacy protection record with the FTC, (Google), get 99% exempted from the telecom and cable privacy protections expected of telephone, broadband, cable and satellite providers?
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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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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
Search + Android + Chrome = Google’s Gatekeeper Inner-net Regime
by Scott Cleland February 27, 2016Google’s dominant search engine + its dominant Android operating system (OS) + its world-leading Chrome web browser + its uniquely-comprehensive, Internet utility functionality of193 products, services and tools = a virtual Google “Inner-net” regime.
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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.
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Personal choice and freedom of association are two fundamental and essential principles of any truly free society, and this includes a free market workplace. Unfortunately, the Obama Administration is spending taxpayer dollars to undermine those principles in other countries around the world.
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Health Care
Certificate of Need Is Restricting Health Care Innovation in Georgia
by Matthew Glans November 6, 2015Competition has long been proven to improve services, lower prices, and give consumers more choices, but despite the success of the free market, Georgia has decided to restrict competition in its health care industry. Georgia is one of 36 states that limit the ability of health care providers to expand their businesses by mandating an approval process known as a certificate of need. The system gives current suppliers of health care services an unfair advantage and keeps out new entrants into the marketplace.
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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
The FCC’s Abjectly Illegitimate Premise for More Cable Regulation
by Scott Cleland October 26, 2015There are troubling signals that the FCC is gearing up to further increase regulation of cable — on top of the extra-legal new utility regulation the FCC already did in its 2015 Open Internet Order.
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Budgets/TaxesFeatured
Green Bay Packers Model Gives Taxpayers Leverage in Stadium Deals
by Jesse Hathaway September 22, 2015Elected officials often say using taxpayer money to pay for the construction or renovation of sports stadiums is an easy way to boost local economies and revitalize the flagging fortunes of downtown areas. But what really happens is that these teams pit cities against one another in competition for franchises, using their scarcity as a way of wresting ever-greater subsidies from taxpayers while team values rise to astronomical levels.