competition
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ConstitutionGovernmentPoliticsRegulation
The Only Definite Winner in Biden’s ‘Competition’ Executive Order? Anti-Competitive Big Tech
by Seton Motley July 13, 2021The media is, of course, backing Biden’s wordplay.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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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.