2 days ago by dolphin

Not. …had you going there, didn’t I? Heh. No, it’s the same o’ same o’ love affair with the Bankers. (Harry Braun ain’t looking so bad now, folks.) As the article states, if you’re serious about investigating an industry, you don’t settle a case before there IS an investigation. Methinks that the pu ...

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11 days ago by glyn moody

One of the recurrent themes on Techdirt is the sense of entitlement the owners of various kinds of monopolies display, and their common belief that being able to maximize the profit from those monopolies trumps any other consideration. On Techdirt.

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16 days ago by Simon Grey

How else to explain this nonsense: The anti-SOPA crowd argues that this is a matter of basic liberty. But it's not. In a free society, you don't have the freedom to steal your neighbor's property. And that should include intellectual property. Moreover, it is the function of the state to enforce tho ...

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23 days ago by Adam

An anonymous insider at one of New York’s big six publishers thinks so. According to a letter posted on pandodaily, and headlined a “confession,” the biggest issue is not that Amazon has made publishing margins razor-thin, it’s that Amazon is now attempting to publish the bestsellers that “cover our ...

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25 days ago by David Zetland

Jack Moss of Aquafed (the International Federation of Private Water Operators) showed this slide during a presentation in which he discussed the "unlevel playing field" that private operators (investor owned utilities and contract operators) face. His point is that the lights of contracts (open-tend ...

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29 days ago by Rebecca LuElla Miller

One of the early Twentieth Century "muckraker" novels This topic is too easy — except people have forgotten what the basic assumption of capitalism was. (What are they teaching in schools these days? ) Once upon a time, capitalism was believed to be all about how to give the best products for the lo ...

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34 days ago by Entrepreneur Ideas

Query by Zee-ster: Question for libertarians on top of monopolies & a accumulation of wealth? 1st let me contend which we am a large follower of Ron Paul as well as am utterly intrigued by his tips about a all giveaway marketplace place vs . corporate socialism as we right away have. Nevertheless, w ...

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40 days ago by DontTreadOnMike

This is what we mean when we talk about companies being in bed with government. I found this video on http://anarchei.me/

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47 days ago by The Whited Sepulchre

I found this link on Samizdata. In the year 2010 in the U.K., there were 81,400 tobacco-related deaths and 8,644 alcohol-related deaths. Take out the big two (that have been subsidized by the U.S. government), and you're left with these, the drugs that are produced or distributed by the Mexican Drug ...

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51 days ago by businessweek

December 22, 2011, 2:32 PM EST By Kim McLaughlin (Updates with ownership details in second paragraph, analyst comment in fourth.) Dec. 22 (Bloomberg) -- TeliaSonera AB, Sweden’s largest telephone company, will take over its Kazakh business for $1.52 billion before holding an initial public offering ...

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