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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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Losing the narrative

Grant Robertson Praises Free Market

In a rather telling admission, Grant Robertson has conceded that socialism doesn’t work. Of course, Robbo would never dare say such a thing openly – not with his Dear Leader being a former president of the International Union of Socialist Youth. In fact, it’s almost certain that he doesn’

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It Only Took Her 3 Years to Burn Our Rock Star Economy

It Only Took Her 3 Years to Burn Our Rock Star Economy

I saw a comment on Twitter from someone who claimed that his mortgage of approximately $350,000 was going to cost him about $7,500 more a year because of interest rate increases. I thought these numbers simply didn’t stack up. That is a very big increase in mortgage

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Hong Kong: The Next Xinjiang?

Hong Kong: The Next Xinjiang?

Vera Stanton On a cold morning in early January this year Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam met Major General Peng Jingtang, the newly-appointed Head of the People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) Hong Kong garrison, at the opulent Government House. With a new Covid outbreak dominating the city’s

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They Snooped but I Got Fired

They Snooped but I Got Fired

Information Opinion Some readers of  The BFD may recall the Mr Berry Mr Berry Show, a Youtube show I hosted for eighteen months. In mid-February, I decided to finish the show in order to focus on my employment as a Retail Coordinator at Officeworks in Melbourne (henceforth to be known

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Fusion Energy… or Stick with the Con

Fusion Energy… or Stick with the Con

Capitalist Information Opinion The Industrial Revolution, which started about the time of the American Revolution, transformed the world in significant ways. Mass-production methods were invented and perfected, huge numbers moved to cities to seek employment, new products became widely available and incomes rose exponentially – with no inflation to speak of

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The Secrets of Shops Will Surprise You

The Secrets of Shops Will Surprise You

Cathrine Jansson-Boyd Anglia Ruskin University Dr. Jansson-Boyd received her BSc in Consumer Psychology from University of North London, UK in 2001 and her Ph.D. in psychology from the London Metropolitan University, UK in 2005. You might think that you only buy what you need, when you need it. But

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4-Day Week Trial Starts in Great Britain

4-Day Week Trial Starts in Great Britain

Kontrast.at/ Kathrin Glösel scoop.me The trial is being organized by 4-Day-Week-Global, together with the think tank Autonomy. Researchers from Cambridge, Oxford, and Boston College universities will monitor and evaluate the field trial. Participating employers include the Royal Society of Biology, brewing company Pressure Drop and a fish ‘n

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Yes, Billionaires Should Run the Internet

Yes, Billionaires Should Run the Internet

Matt Hampton fee.org Matt Hampton is the Digital Marketing Associate for the Foundation for Economic Education. Tesla CEO Elon Musk became Twitter’s largest shareholder on Monday after purchasing 9.2 percent of its stock. Musk’s announcement that he would bring big changes prompted speculation that he would

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