Quebec’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

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

US’ record energy exports drive up fuel prices at home

The US shipped 14.2 million barrels of crude and products daily in April.

The 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

The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn't

The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn't

Stefan Schüller
Time to challenge anyone who claims to oppose capitalism while still defending the mechanics that create it: competitive market trade, scarcity exploitation, and private gain as the organizing principle of society.
#politics #markets #libertarian #freemarket #economics #intergral
What Pierre Poilievre Doesn’t Get About His Economic Hero | The Tyee

Adam Smith wasn’t a conservative and knew markets could fail, even if Poilievre says otherwise.

The Tyee

Is self-regulated free market forces not a contradiction in terms? 🤔
The free part implies that it is by definition not regulated...

@philosophy @psychology
@humor @[email protected] @aiop

#Thinking #Meme #Memes #FreeMarket #Regulation #Polluting #Pollution
#Philosophy #Psyhology #Humor #Humour #Funny

Trump’s Two-Faced AI Policy 

The Trump administration’s AI policy is two-faced, torn between deregulation and despotism. In March, the administration released its National AI Legislative Framework, directing Congress to “preve…

Techdirt

RE: https://mastodon.social/@tanyatussing/116346855124702428

#MikeKonczal 's book about #Freedom for regular people is an excellent argument against the " #freemarket " making most people more free.

#Economics #Health #SocialSecutiry