Nicholas Freiling

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Net Neutrality: Government Can’t Know the “Correct” Price for Internet Service

11/28/2017 Mises Wire Nicholas Freiling

By manipulating markets for internet service, government agencies could be indirectly distorting markets and ruining innovation by forcing prices down.

Public Accommodation and Social Engineering

10/24/2014 Mises Daily Nicholas Freiling

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.

Even the Feds Admit Minimum Wages Cause Unemployment

06/17/2014 Mises Daily Nicholas Freiling

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.

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Even the Feds Admit Minimum Wages Cause Unemployment

06/23/2014 Nicholas Freiling

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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