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Outlawing Price Gouging Will Only Hurt Angelenos
Is there anything worse than fattening your profit margin during a tragedy? Yes. Forcing prices low does far more harm than good.
Russ Roberts
Why I Left Norway
I wanted to build an internet business in my own country. This tax made it impossible.
Fredrik Haga
Is Election Betting Bad for Democracy?
To the contrary.
Charles Fain Lehman
Fight Club! Is Lina Khan a Heroine or a Bully?
Matt Stoller says the Federal Trade Commission chair is saving us from the predations of Big Tech. Judge Glock says the agency has become ‘ridiculous…
Matt Stoller
 and 
Judge Glock
The Myth of Degrowth
Maybe you’ve heard the story of the collapse of Easter Island, a cautionary environmental tale for the modern world. It didn’t happen.
James Pethokoukis
Why Are Grocery Bills So High?
Avian influenza, higher shipping costs, and a drought in the Midwest are real factors. Price gouging? Not so much.
Madeleine Rowley
Niall Ferguson: Welcome to Pandemonium
What the hell just happened to the market? This wasn’t the reaction to an underwhelming U.S. jobs report. This is something bigger.
Niall Ferguson
Fight Club: Should Tesla Pay Elon Musk $56 Billion?
Corporate greed? Or a richly deserved payday? Nellie Bowles and Joe Nocera face off.
Nellie Bowles
 and 
Joe Nocera
Argentina’s President Javier Milei Loves Being the Skunk at the Garden Party
A sit-down with the world’s first libertarian head of state.
Bari Weiss
How Working Class Americans Became Second-Class Citizens
Blue-collar workers have been abandoned by both the Democrats and the Republicans. Batya Ungar-Sargon explains why.
Batya Ungar-Sargon
Boeing’s Dead Whistleblower Spoke the Truth
Crashing planes. An ousted CEO. What the hell happened to America’s aviation gem?
Joe Nocera
Opioids Decimated a Kentucky Town. Recovering Addicts Are Saving It.
After the collapse of coal mining and the rise of the opioid epidemic, Hazard, Kentucky, seemed finished. Then locals started to rescue it.
Sam Quinones
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