Online retail behemoth Amazon is in talks with major banks about creating a checking account-type product to offer its customers. While talks are still in the early stages and nothing…
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We live in a world in which free markets are something politicians and businessmen often pay lip service to, just before they enter their smoke-filled back rooms to try to…
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Many socialists, and even some right-wingers, complain that the free market is cruel and Darwinian, that only the strong survive and that the weak get eaten, and that the market…
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After worrying gun owners earlier this week with his comments on gun control, President Trump began to worry investors and businessmen with his plan to slap a 25 percent tariff…
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It’s no surprise to many that the United States is a country that’s swimming in debt. Since the early 2000s the amount of debt that households hold has increased by…
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Since 1967, Charles Koch has been CEO of Koch Industries. He inherited the company from his father at a value of $21 million and has grown it to be the…
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Success – measured by the long-term fulfillment and happiness you feel about your life – is created through your commitment to a set of daily, quiet habits. Success isn’t one…
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Prime-age men (ages 25 to 54) are disappearing from the American workforce. The percentage of prime-age men in the labor force has been decreasing steadily since the 1960s, but has…
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US home sales fell in January unexpectedly, the second straight month of declines. That also marked the largest year-on-year decline in three years. Part of the reason for that was…
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The days of complaining about having to work a typical 9-5 “rat-race” job will soon be over. All of the people who complain about corporate jobs and having to deal…