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There’s No ‘Junk’ In Credit Card Swipe Fees, Just Essential Service

Credit/debit card issuers quite literally finance the purchases of customers, they enhance the ability of customers to make purchases by not limiting them to what’s in their pockets, and most of all they free retailers from a myriad of burdens including judging the cash or creditworthiness of buyers.

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Nvidia’s Unlikely Ascent Is An Enemy of Stalked-by-Fallacy ‘Economics’

Economists near monolithically believe the Fed can decree “easy money” via its funds rate, that government spending grows the economy, and that by pushing its funds rate low, the Fed can engineer stock market rallies. Thankfully we have companies like Nvidia.

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DOJ Ankle Biters Attack Live Nation For Seeing What No One Saw

To read about the DOJ’s antitrust suit against Live Nation isn’t to find offense, but to realize that Live Nation saw a future amid a fraught time for the industry that its competitors did not. And for not wanting to hire the losers, it’s threatened with breakup. In other words, typical antitrust.

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Masterpiece Cake Shop From Right As Texas Pols Attack Banks

When Masterpiece Cake Shop chose not to bake a cake for a same-sex wedding on moral grounds, conservatives rightly defended the right of a business owner to refuse the business. Puzzling now is that Republican politicians are and have been harassing financial institutions in Texas for them allegedly passing on financing fossil fuel extraction and gunmakers.

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