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Isn't the idea of the 'European Single Market'—much celebrated as the pinnacle of free trade—actually revealing a deeper ...

We are not in a free market competition with China in electric ... if you want to mess with the largest economy you trade with, then we're going to force a lot of people that make yoga mats ...

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long periods of broad stock market ownership, and direct participation in the value creation process of successful, new private businesses. These same tools of capitalism and free markets should ...

All of which raises an uncomfortable question for free-marketers like me: Is there still a market-friendly party in America? Consider the 2024 Republican Party Platform, which does not mince words ...

This time around, his administration also has some free-market tendencies, but the anti-market elements are more apparent. On one hand, there are pledges to cut regulations, the size of government ...

President Trump claims that tariffs built American wealth. The truth is that tariffs cannot build wealth at all, only destroy it.

Although Trump has so far devoted the most attention to media businesses, he has not ignored the broader economy. Every ...

Many believed capitalism would be a force for innovation ... This threatens the very meaning of the free market on which DeFi is built and risks concentrating everything in the hands of ...

This introduced the concept of the invisible hand of the free market - where individuals pursuing their own interests can unintentionally benefit the whole economy. The second important concept of ...

Hong Kong has a free market economy, highly dependent on international trade and finance - the value of goods and services trade, including the sizable share of reexports, is about four times GDP.