Category: marketplace

Why Getting Your Car Repaired Is Nearly Impossible

July 3, 2023
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Commentary The word “market” is usually associated with the stock market or perhaps a farmers’ market. This is a truncated view based only on what we see or hear reported in the financial press. The market in the real world is a vast collaborative effort involving exchange relationships all over the world, designed by no…

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All the People Say: Power to the Consumers

June 29, 2023
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Commentary Brendan Whitworth, CEO of Anheuser-Busch, has finally granted an interview on the Bud Light controversy. He managed to get through the interview without saying anything meaningful beyond the usual corporate cliches. What remarkable talent it requires to be subjected to a 9-minute interview and say nothing about the only reason for the interview: the…

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The Desperate Need to Restore Community

June 13, 2023
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Commentary In 2019, I published what many people then told me was my best book: “The Market Loves You.” It was a reflection on C.S. Lewis’s “four loves” in light of commercial society. One of these loves involves friendship, association, and appreciation for another, and the sense of trust that comes from a routine experience of…

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Vote With Your Wallet!

May 30, 2023
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Commentary In graduate school, I encountered the disturbing theory that your vote doesn’t actually count for much. We have a winner-take-all system of voting in this country. That means that one vote for x is always canceled out by a vote for y. So a husband and wife who disagree might as well stay home….

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Black Market Boom | The Dark Web Ep2 | Documentary

February 17, 2023
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This film is only available in North America and the UK because of territorial licensing. Drugs, guns, counterfeit documents, and much more are sold on dark web marketplaces that run on anonymous browsers and use cryptocurrency. AlphaBay was the biggest marketplace, transacting over $800,000 in a day. …

2 Plead Guilty in Scheme to Manipulate Amazon Marketplace

May 18, 2022
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SEATTLE—Two more defendants have pleaded guilty for their role in a multimillion-dollar scheme to manipulate the Amazon Marketplace e-commerce platform. Six people have been charged in the conspiracy, which federal prosecutors say involved paying bribes to get Amazon employees and contractors to leak confidential data and to use that data to grant certain sellers a…

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