I think competition is a good thing. I think there are all sorts of benefits to competitive markets. But even I think that the Irish Examiner (registration required) is overstating the case for competition.
THE mantra that people should shop around for better value is endorsed by a survey showing consumers can save almost 300% through greater competition in the high street.
Quite an accomplishment, that.
The Scotsman reports a new front in the British government's war on the consumer. The future for Britain's corner shops is "very, very bleak indeed", ...
The Chicago Tribune (registration required) reports on the efforts of the police in Chicago (still run by the Democratic machine) to shut down small stakes ...
Fighting off the competition The Independent defends the Australian court's libel decision. On the face of it, the court's decision that a libel suit brought ...
The Irish Independent (registration required, and they are keeping me busy today), has a story about the shock, the shock, mind you, of an official ...
Exams are time consuming (buying a house at the same time does not help), so I missed a comment from CalPundit that offered up the ...
The recession and the Microsoft case Cold Spring Shop takes up my comparison of Brad DeLong and Craig Newmark. He says that my reference to ...
George Will has a little piece on Obama's advisor Austan Goolsbee. The details are less important that the primary point, which is that Goolsbee is ...