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Guest Author: Ricardo on Online retail price-fixing. Illegal, led by Amazon.

On By rushbabe49In business, Crime and Punishment, Economics, government, Guest Blogger, Law and Justice, Media and the Internet, Politics in the Age of Trump, social mediaLeave a comment

My bet is that the vast majority of my readers shop at Amazon all the time. The first site they think of for shopping for just about anything starts there. Well, you might want to re-think that behavior, once you read the post below. Just FYI, I live in Amazon home-office territory, and I never, …

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A quick note to Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders (who seem to be ignorant of basic economics)

On By rushbabe49In Authoritarianism, business, Culture, Economics, Politics in the Age of Trump, Progressive "Thought"5 Comments

Warren and Sanders are picking a big fight with Amazon.com over its supposed low level of income tax payments to their government.  The two senators are fighting, along with the majority of their Leftist colleagues, to raise the tax rate on big companies, so they will "pay their fair share" into government coffers. However, basic economics …

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