WSJ.com — OpinionTrust the Free Market on AI
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trust-the-free-market-on-ai-5aa49ee0
AaronEconomist finds financial inequity distorted centuries-old Spanish water inequality
https://phys.org/news/2026-06-economist-financial-inequity-distorted-centuries.html
#Inequality
#WealthInequality
#IncomeInequality
#Economics
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Economist finds financial inequity distorted centuries-old Spanish water inequality
For generations, economists have viewed markets as the gold standard of efficiency, assuming resources naturally flow to the people who value them most. But new research from the University of Miami Patti and Allan Herbert Business School suggests that assumption can break down when participants cannot afford to compete on equal footing.
Techdirt [Unofficial]Michigan Lawmakers Want To Ban Chinese-Tagged Vehicles From Even Visiting The State. You Know, For Privacy.
Michigan Lawmakers Want To Ban Chinese-Tagged Vehicles From Even Visiting The State. You Know, For Privacy.
Michigan lawmakers are pushing legislation that wouldn’t just ban the sales of Chinese-made cars in the The Great Lakes State, it would ban cars with Chinese tags from even visiting. The Prot…
Protyus A. GendherThis is why the idea is politically charged —
it threatens the myth of the self‑sustaining market. #freemarket #capitalism
https://survivorliteracy.com/2026/05/30/%f0%9f%92%b5-what-a-universal-living-wage-would-do/
This is not a free market.
It is a state‑supported labor‑extraction economy wrapped in the myth of freedom.
Skim Shady (331.36 ppm)“For instance, financial flows from poorer to richer nations are “approximately three times as much as development aid,” according to the latest World Inequality Report. And 3.4 billion people live in countries whose external debt service exceeds health or education spending. This isn’t a moral form of “aid.” It’s staggeringly self-serving. And since it perpetuates avoidable suffering, it isn’t really benevolent.”
Wisdom in SpaceDemocracy cannot survive an excessively free market; and containing the market is the task of politics.
-- Robert Kuttner (NYRB (Dec 2017))
⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #RobertKuttner #FreeMarket #Politics
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #PuebloBonito #Ruins #NewMexico
CBC OttawaQuebec’s new ticket resale law promises transparency — but no price cap like Ontario
While Ontario passed a law banning above-face-value resales, Quebec’s proposed rules fall short of a price cap, leaving buyers to still face a free market. Justice Minister Simon Jolin-Barrette says his government's proposed law is designed to make the ticket market more transparent and protect Quebec artists and ven...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-ticket-resale-habs-tickets-9.7204723?cmp=rss
While Ontario passed a law banning above-face-value resales, Quebec’s proposed rules fall short of a price cap, leaving buyers to still face a free market. Justice Minister Simon Jolin-Barrette says his government's proposed law is designed to make the ticket market more transparent and protect Quebec artists and ven...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-ticket-resale-habs-tickets-9.7204723?cmp=rss
Any comment from the “drill baby drill” crowd? Understand anything about economics yet?
You think O&G are on your side, Cotton? Y’all just shillin’ for free like a good sharecropper, gettin’ bitch slapped by that “invisible” hand while trying to fill your tank #maga #exxonknew #freemarket
https://www.semafor.com/article/05/18/2026/us-record-energy-exports-drive-up-fuel-prices-at-home
Dimly Lit CornersThe Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn't
https://stefan.schueller.net/posts/the-free-market-lie/
#FreeMarket #OpenAccess #Fiber #PointToPoint #NationalStandards
