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Who Are Resigning en Masse and Why?

Carlos Carrillo-Tudela Alex Clymo David Zentler-Munro University of Essex Carlos Carrillo-Tudela is a Professor of Economics at the University of Essex, UK. He is also a co-editor of Labour Economics, The Official Journal of the European Association of Labour Economists (EALE). Alex Clymo is an Assistant Professor at the Economics

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Old is Gold

Old is Gold

Chatting to friends at dinner in a West Coast town last week, we were discussing the fact that many of the local businesses seem to be struggling. Covid is part of the problem of course, as the virus has finally arrived here but it is obvious that this is not

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How AI Impacts the Future of Agriculture

Robert Sparrow Mark Howard lens.monash.edu Robert Sparrow is a Professor of Philosophy, Monash Data Futures Institute Mark Howard is a Research Fellow, Philosophy, Monash Data Futures Institute, ARC Centre of Excellence in Electromaterial Science “The world is not data,” states a new Monash-led paper on the future of

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Govt Still Acting Like a Hermit Kingdom

Govt Still Acting Like a Hermit Kingdom

Stuart Smith National MP Kaikoura Below is Stuart Smith’s response. Overseas PhD students have so much to offer New Zealand, which is why we encourage them to study here. In fact, we help fund their study because of the benefits they bring. These students create jobs; they innovate and

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Off to the Environment Court

Off to the Environment Court

On 6 November 2021, I wrote a BFD article titled Shovel – Ready Project Turned Down by Government, shining a blow torch on the fact that the proposal by the Port of Tauranga (POT) to extend the port had been turned down, not once, but twice, by Jacinda Ardern’s Labour

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Musk May Make Twitter Bully Proof

Musk May Make Twitter Bully Proof

Michael Tracey brownstone.org Michael Tracey is a roving journalist who posts at Substack. It’s always been easy to slag off Twitter. When I first joined the platform 13 years ago, if you ever tried to explain what “Twitter” is to people, they’d respond with something like, “So

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Elon Musk Wants to Make Big Changes

Elon Musk Wants to Make Big Changes

Although my Lushington Brady persona was banned from Twitter long ago, I do keep a strictly non-political presence on the platform, under another nom-de-plume. It’s remarkable, actually, what a pleasant place Twitter is without politics: there’s probably a lesson in there. Anyway, being on Twitter has allowed me

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Why Elon Musk Cannot Bring Absolute Free Speech to Twitter

Why Elon Musk Cannot Bring Absolute Free Speech to Twitter

Eric Heinze Queen Mary University of London Eric Heinze (Paris, Maîtrise; Harvard, JD; Leiden, PhD) is Professor of Law & Humanities at Queen Mary, University of London. Elon Musk is the planet’s number one billionaire. If anyone can turn cyberspace into a heaven – or hell – of free speech “absolutism”

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Elon Musk’s Twitter Deal Creates Value

Elon Musk’s Twitter Deal Creates Value

Dan Sanchez fee.org Dan Sanchez is the Director of Content at the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) and the editor-in chief of FEE.org. Elon Musk sealed the deal. On Monday, Twitter accepted Musk’s $44 billion offer to buy the company and take it private. Musk is putting

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How Will Musk’s Ownership of Twitter Affect Free Speech?

How Will Musk’s Ownership of Twitter Affect Free Speech?

John Hawkins Michael James Walsh University of Canberra John Hawkins has a PhD in political science and Masters degrees in Economics and Applied Finance. I have headed the economics division at the Hong Kong Monetary Authority and been a senior economist with the Reserve Bank of Australia, Bank for International

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The Main Reason Netflix Shares Are Tanking

Emmanuel Rincón fee.org Emmanuel Rincón is a lawyer, writer, novelist and essayist. He has won several international literary awards. He is Editor-at-large at El American When asked about the best way to fight monopolies in his documentary series Free to Choose, Milton Friedman had a firm answer: “the free

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The “Anti-capitalist” Cafe That Wants to Turn a Profit

Patrick Carroll fee.org Patrick Carroll has a degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Waterloo and is an Editorial Fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education. A new “anti-capitalist” cafe is opening in Toronto, hoping to attract customers who share the owner’s radical leftist values. Officially called

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

Elon Musk has been successful in his bid to buy Twitter for $44 billion Live shot of Twitter HQ at this very moment pic.twitter.com/XceYVa0VLl — Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) April 25, 2022 Read more here. Discuss it on The BFD. If you would like to access exclusive Member content

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A Govt Obsessed With Controlling the Narrative

A Govt Obsessed With Controlling the Narrative

Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com Dr Muriel Newman established the New Zealand Centre for Political Research as a public policy think tank in 2005 after nine years as a Member of Parliament. A former Chamber of Commerce President, her background is in business and education. Warning Long Read. 2105 words.

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Do Poison Pills Work?

Do Poison Pills Work?

Tuugi Chuluun Loyola University Maryland Tuugi Chuluun, PhD., CFA is Travelers Scholar and an Associate Professor of Finance at Loyola University Maryland. Tuugi conducts research in corporate finance and international finance and has authored academic articles as well as an international finance textbook. She also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst

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