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Creating Infrastructure for Private Regulation by Alex Merced Everyone on both sides of the aisle have empathy for consumers who are defrauded, swindled, and are tricked into entering trade under false premises. The debate isn't should there be mechanisms to protect and put oversight on the consumer...
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Capitalism and Democracy by Alex Merced Detractors to Capitalism often will make satire of the idea of "the invisible hand" as if Free Market Capitalist believe there is an actual invisible hand. The Invisible hand is a metaphor for much more beautiful and plausible idea; that the actions and...
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Free Market Regulation Explained by Alex Merced Everyone always assumes that as free marketers that we advocate there be no regulations at all, but the truth is we think there should be no government monopolies of regulation or violence used in enforcing it. Then the response always is, if the government...
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Sun, Apr 25 2010
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Filed under: Private Sector, FINRA, Entertainment, Federal Reserve, Consequence, Regulation, SIPC, Individualism, Magazines, Rating Agencies, Free Market, SEC, Reviews, FDIC, Collectivism
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Please, click here to read this article in pdf format: march-2-2010 We will be brief today, for nothing of macroeconomic consequence has taken place in the past 24hrs. The action that caught our attention yesterday was in the foreign exchange market (the market that never lies). In particular, we refer...
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Mon, Mar 1 2010
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Filed under: Martin Sibileau, Agency debt, CAD, interest rate, regulation, Agencies, Euro-zone, GSE, TSX, bubbles, Bank of America, asset inflation, European Union, exchange equation, Preferred Stock Purchase Program, PPSP, Euro, USD strength, Europe, inflation, Canadian dollar, non-nuetrality of money, delinquency buyouts
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It is often remarked that the existence of unions is proof of the inefficiency and failure of markets to pay workers adequate wages. That workers, as a great multitude with little individual influence, must form socialistic collectives in order to provide a counterweight to the great power wielded by...
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Solredime
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Tue, Dec 29 2009
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Filed under: regulation, intervention, sticky, unions, trade unions, deflation, inflation, competition, sticky wages, raising prices, raising wages
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Please note my preceding posts , about the establishment of global financial governance, which has astonishingly thin coverage given its importance and implications. Has everyone been distracted? Here is some background and discussion that may be useful, in chronological order: " G-20 Shapes New...
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Further to my prior post , I decided to take a whack at laying out the WSJ`s online report and describing some of its contents. The master page is here - is not outlined as clearly as the Asian print edition, which is in the following order, which I`ve linked to corresponding section of the online version...
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The Michigan state legislature has avoided another shutdown of the state government by passing a budget resolution that gives them another month to craft a budget that meets the needs of the state. The Republicans are holding firm on not raising taxes while cutting a lot of the social programs that have...
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A common complaint, certainly when a crises occurs, is that there was not enough regulation. What is meant by regulation, however, is never really clarified. We just need it. For those who think this, or for those who encounter such people, does the thought ever arise to ask, "Can regulation ever...
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Scarcity can be defined as the ownership of something tangible which necessarily excludes others from using it. Thus, if I own a fork, I exclude others from using it, unless I either give it away or temporarily transfer availability of it to someone else, which in turn means I cannot at that point in...
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Filed under: regulation, intervention, non-scarcity, intellectual property, monopoly rights, IP, copyright, copyleft, creative commons, scarcity
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David Talbot , chief correspondent for the MIT Technology Review , has an excellent, long piece in the January/February online issue that explores some the of intra- and inter-state regulatory hurdles that frustrate both the expansion of renewable power and a truly free power market. I'd like to...
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Arianna Huffington writes : Ronald Reagan, in his first inaugural address, famously declared that "government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem." Twenty-seven years later, in the midst of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, and seven-plus years...
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Alex Tabarrok thought they should about a week ago because the costs of warfare in terms of economics and liberty are both so great and often under-estimated. This is an argument I find convincing, but now I'm not so sure. In recent comments about...
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Over on the LRC blog, Karen De Coster wrote a post covering the news that Los Angeles authorities are going to ban the opening of new fast food restaurants within a 32-square-mile area of the city. Karen then pointed out that: "Obesity and the non-upkeep of one's body and/or health is the preference...
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At Bejtlich’s recommendation, I read with great interest Cyberinsurance in IT Security Management by Walter S. Baer and Andrew Parkinson. The bulk of the paper describes the success and prospects of the cyberinsurance industry, but comes to a conclusion that we need government regulation to “facilitate...