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Christmas is a make-or-break time for many retailers, and the holiday season’s importance to the American economy is so great that “Black Friday” sales at some retailers, particularly Wal-Mart, are reported as a macroeconomic indicator. The holiday season is indeed festive and inspiring even in spite of clichéd paeans against the “commercialism”
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Markets are ruthlessly efficient, meaning in large part that people will not undertake investment projects with risk characteristics that are not aligned with savers’ preferences. All profitable opportunities will be exploited in equilibrium, and no potentially profitable projects will be left undone. One of the unfortunate consequences of
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In the wake of the recent flooding in Iowa, the state’s attorney general has announced that Iowa’s rules against price gouging are now in effect. These rules prohibit businesses from “substantially raising the prices for needed goods or services without justification” in the wake of a natural disaster. According to a June 23 press release from the
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The oil industry is everybody’s favorite whipping boy, and indeed it is tempting to criticize them for their acceptance of past government largesse. However, the lion’s share of criticism of the oil companies consists not of criticism of their violations of libertarian principles but of their status as exemplars of the alleged excesses of free
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In his classic Economics in One Lesson , Henry Hazlitt applies Frederic Bastiat’s “broken window” fallacy. Many still haven’t learned the lesson, apparently: this article from the Boston Globe argues that this year’s earthquakes in China will be good for Chinese economic growth and that disasters can be good for the economy more generally.
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I have received a lot of interesting and useful comments on my recent article about local foods , and I would like to take this opportunity to clarify a few things and continue the conversation. If locally grown produce tastes better, and if one prefers to know where one’s food is produced, then eating locally is a great idea. If one’s goal is to
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A Tyson Chicken plant in Shelbyville, Tennessee has agreed to grant its workers a day off for the Muslim holiday Eid el-Fitr, replacing Labor Day at the request of the union that represents approximately 1200 plant employees, among them approximately seven hundred Somali Muslim immigrants. Predictably, the decision has created a firestorm of
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[As surely as summer follows spring, natural disasters are followed by saber rattling about “price gouging,” which is usually defined very lucidly and clearly as an “unconscionable” increase in the price of a necessity. These tend to follow a formula, so I thought that instead of writing a new article discussing the unintended consequences of
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The Huntsville Times reported on September 12 that, in response to the looming threat from Hurricane Ike, Alabama Governor Bob Riley declared a formal state of emergency. The governor’s declaration of emergency activated the state’s price-gouging law, which makes “unconscionable pricing” illegal during times of emergency. The Times quoted Riley as