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New Concentrations of Capital

From The Disturbing New Facts About American Capitalism by Jason Zweig in The WSJ Modern capitalism is built on the idea that as companies get big, they become fat and happy, opening themselves up to lean and hungry competitors that can

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Gilded Progressives

from The Great Regression in The National Review by Victor Davis Hanson At the turn of the last century, “trust busters” of the progressive movement made the argument that the free market was imperiled by crony capitalists, who had, with

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The New Robber Barons

From Joel Kotkin at New Geography, TODAY’S TECH OLIGARCHS ARE WORSE THAN THE ROBBER BARONS Now from San Francisco to Washington and Brussels, the tech oligarchs are something less attractive: a fearsome threat whose ambitions to control our future politics, media,

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The Sovereigns of Cyberspace

From Joel Kotkin at newgeography.com AMERICA’S NEW OLIGARCHS—FWD.US AND SILICON VALLEY’S SHADY 1 PERCENTERS excerpts: Perversely, the small number of jobs—mostly clustered in Silicon Valley—created by tech companies has helped its moguls avoid public scrutiny. Google employs 50,000, Facebook 4,600, and

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Driverless Cars

How Uber’s Autonomous Cars Will Destroy 10 Million Jobs And Reshape The Economy by 2025 excerpts: Industry experts think that consumers will be slow to purchase autonomous cars – while this may be true, it is a mistake to assume

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Consumers are Forgotten in the Class War

Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and Sergi Brin of Google both became very young billionaires from the companies they created. Yet hundreds of millions of consumers benefitted by getting incredible products for free. When we participate in the class warfare we

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Grove’s Law of Government

In the Wall Street Journal L. Gordon Grovitz writes Google Speaks Truth to Power. Excerpt:  (Quoting Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google) “So we get hauled in front of the Congress for developing a product that’s free, that serves a

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The “Jobs Rule” vs the “Buffet Rule”

Rich Lowry writes The Jobs Rule in The National Review Online 10/7/11. Excerpt: Pres. Barack Obama loves his “Buffett Rule” for taxes. He’d be better served by adopting the “Jobs Rule”: Government’s role is to provide the structure of order and

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