Mises Daily
Author:
Christopher Westley
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property, possibly impeding NASA’s effort to investigate this latest government failure. Several opportunists attempted to offer pieces of the shuttle for auction being caught with it. The penalty itself causes such debris’ value in extra-legal markets to increase. Pieces that could fetch higher prices would more likely be private individuals to collect as much shuttle debris as possible to sell on the market. This strategy would have created an incentive for those with possible