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While a prestigious university could help you cross a border, could your Facebook friends?
Category: Blog/Analysis
... ANC can ban information but where free speech cannot be contained. You can even follow me if you want. But none of these services can really be described as “nations”. The average MBA class offers ... Monday, 06 September 2010 -
The long, hard road of self-publishing a web comic
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... has turned its creator, Arianna Huffington, into a media-superstar. 63 million visitors a month visit the news and opinion service which employs only 60 people and relies on the free contributions of 3,000 ... Thursday, 15 July 2010 -
Greece, Goldman and finding the Greater Fool
Category: Blog/Analysis
... wrong. IKB knew what they were buying and the market in these bonds was sufficiently liquid that the price was free to trade. Despite this, US Senators are pillorying Goldman executives for not making ... Thursday, 10 June 2010 -
Feeding the hungry with freely transferrable bank accounts
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... cash. That causes its own problems. When free goods arrive in a market it immediately displaces local production. Whether it is clothing donated via Oxfam, or grain donated from the WFP, local production ... Thursday, 27 May 2010 -
Cash and Ash Crisis demonstrate global interdependency
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... promoted tourism or a handful of industries reliant on airlines or cheap energy. This too is to put ones faith in luck rather than diversity. The reason that so many liberal and free-market economists ... Thursday, 20 May 2010 -
Governments which demand to be the only investor can steal their citizens' savings
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... 2009. “The end of socialism does not automatically create a competitive free market, but can lead, as it has in Russia, to a dangerous version of capitalism where the bureaucracy considers the state its ... Thursday, 29 April 2010 -
Free the people by freeing their bank accounts
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It didn't happen and it wouldn't have worked anyway. UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling, was expected to legislate that every bank in the UK provide a free bank account to every adult. No ... Thursday, 01 April 2010 -
The unforgivable cost of state-protected monopolies
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... life to turn back to the time when we were so happy and free,” he wrote. “May God help you and have mercy on my soul.” With that, he dressed in his coat and hat, jumped out of the thirteenth floor window, ... Thursday, 18 March 2010 -
Job creation, innovation and the Apple iPad
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It was a speech much-awaited, driving speculation and controversy before it even started. No, not Steve Jobs in San Francisco but Barack Obama in Washington. It has been a bad few weeks for the US President. ... Thursday, 18 March 2010 -
Google and the Cold War that businesses must play
Category: Blog/Analysis
... free speech and free expression, it is hard to challenge prevailing views and established orthodoxies. A world where politicians decide on the fate of scientists, innovators and entrepreneurs is a place ... Thursday, 11 March 2010 -
Africa, prosperity and its ever-seeking union
Category: Blog/Analysis
... and Burundi. For the last five years, Kenya’s neighbours have had tariff-free access to its markets in order to gradually build up their competitiveness. Now all the barriers are down and goods should ... Thursday, 04 March 2010 -
And the eyes are always on us
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... children. And the eyes are always on us,” said Orson Welles in 1955. Since then, much has happened. Technology has allowed free speech to spread as easily as the seasonal flu. It has also allowed governments ... Thursday, 25 February 2010 -
The World Cup is further away than many thought
Category: Blog/Analysis
... loss of income but also for your future inconvenience from not having met your boss’ expectations. Higher prices are the way every free market allocates scarce resources to those who value them the most. ... Thursday, 11 February 2010 -
Get your money for nothing and your mp3s for free
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On 31 July 2009, Joel Tenenbaum, a 25-year-old Boston University graduate student, was fined $675,000 for sharing 30 songs over the KaZaA peer-to-peer file-sharing network. The charges were brought by ... Thursday, 29 October 2009 -
To consumers go the spoils of competition
Category: Blog/Analysis
... engine and media company, to enter the battle. In short succession, Google released a free online suite of desktop publishing software to compete with Microsoft’s Office cash-cow. In 2008, they followed ... Thursday, 08 October 2009 -
The day the pop-star died
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... Glastonbury’s first event in 1970 attracted 1,500 people who got as much free milk as they could drink. Bands performed there in the hopes of being picked up by a promoter, rather than out of a desire ... Thursday, 01 October 2009 -
The right to sell is no different if you're a farmer, or a doctor
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... The markets for freely traded products are circular: for there to be a seller, there must be a buyer. If it turns out that consumers don’t want oddly shaped vegetables, then retailers will stop selling ... Thursday, 24 September 2009 -
Towards sustainable and organic work
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... for one month for free. What they’re basically saying is this: “Lose your pay for one month, or lose it entirely when we retrench thousands of people to cut costs.” Other companies are following suit. ... Thursday, 17 September 2009 -
"If you cross the river, you will destroy a great empire."
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... the currency is the dollar,” said Russian president, Dmitry Medvedev. The dollar is freely traded, which cannot be said for the BRIC currencies. This freedom of exchange has very clear results. “Dollar ... Thursday, 10 September 2009 -
Strikes won’t help, but a little ingenuity goes a long way
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... job is to facilitate that chaos, not attempt to freeze things in place. Make it easy for people with big ideas to get in and out of the market. The more churn, the more chance that one of those ideas ... Thursday, 27 August 2009
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