Lopez is the embodiment of the major risks Live Nation took to get where it is, and how perilous its status will always be given the massive uncertainty (remember Tower Records, Friday Night Videos, or MTV?) that’s always defined the music sector.
Jennifer Lopez Is a Reminder of the Huge Risks Live Nation Took Read More »
Talmon Joseph Smith and Jordyn Holman of the New York Times recently reported that “Over the past year, a series of indignant McDonald’s customers took to social media and posted receipts of orders they feel were overpriced.” Adding the empirical to the emotional, Smith and Holman note that since 2019 the price of a
On the Matter of Expensive Big Macs, McDonald’s Isn’t to Blame Read More »
Markets are great, but it’s hard to see how the TXSE would be all that different thanks to so much in the way of federal rulemaking.
Will a Texas Stock Exchange Mean Much In a Federalized U.S.? Read More »
Morrow’s book is another very entertaining look back at how things used to be in media. It’s a great read, and that’s why at 180 pages it’s too short. The book is titled “The Noise of Typewriters.”
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Former attorney general William Barr is at it again with his overnight conversion to “monopoly” critic. He claims that if “allowed to dominate AI,” Microsoft, Google and Amazon “could reinforce and extend their supremacy over more of the economy.”
If They’re Talking ‘Monopoly,’ They Don’t Have a Clue What One Is Read More »
Banks are presently being asked to provide high-level service to customers in return for nothing. Sorry, it’s not going to work.
Like Every Other Business, Banks Have Investors To Please Read More »
Live Nation’s reward for risking everything on an uncertain tomorrow is a lawsuit from a federal government eager to tear it town.
Phil Knight and Nike Enunciate the DOJ’s Fatuous Case Against Live Nation Read More »
As always, economists (and the Schools they inspired) never disappoint. If we ignore that prices rarely have much to do with inflation (a currency phenomenon) as is, what a strange way to try and bring about lower prices.
Ikea Reminds Us Falling Prices, Not ‘Pricing Power,’ Cheer Investors Read More »
Self-proclaimed libertarians claim Argentine president Milei must “dollarize.” Really? Why? And what on earth does government decreeing the dollar as the currency of exchange have to do with free markets?
Dollar Stability, Not ‘Dollarization,’ Is the Fix for Javier Milei Read More »
David Bahnsen’s excellent new book is titled Full-Time: Work and the Meaning of Life. In it he makes a case that we were put here to produce.
Book Review: David Bahsen’s Essential ‘Full-Time’ Read More »
