Nick Freiling is Founder/Director at Haven Insights, a DC-based market research firm. He studied Austrian economics at Grove City College and George Mason University.
By manipulating markets for internet service, government agencies could be indirectly distorting markets and ruining innovation by forcing prices down.
Public accommodation laws that prohibit discrimination render property rights moot and create a legal system designed to force agreement with the state's official moral code.
There is a little-known loophole in federal law that allows for people with disabilities to be employed at wage rates below the minimum wage. Why the exemption? It’s an effort to lessen unemployment among the disabled, and a tacit admission in federal law that minimum wages cause unemployment.
A little-known loophole in federal law allows people with disabilities to be employed below the minimum wage, writes Nicholas Freiling. Why the exemption? This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Allan Davis.
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