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Investing
Occupational Licensing Harms Workers in Similar Roles
Ryan Bourne In Empowering the New American Worker, Chris Edwards summarized what economists have learned about occupational licensing laws. These…
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Economy
Amazon unleashes Q, an AI assistant for the workplace
Enlarge / The Amazon Q logo. (credit: Amazon) On Tuesday, Amazon unveiled Amazon Q, an AI chatbot similar to ChatGPT…
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Investing
Should Election Authorities Publish the Records of Individual Votes?
Walter Olson Two weeks ago I noted that one principle of fair elections, transparency, can be in tension with another, the…
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Economy
Report: Apple and Goldman Sachs are breaking up over money-losing Apple Card
Enlarge (credit: Apple) Apple has repeatedly trumpeted the success of its financial services, a product lineup that now encompasses the…
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Investing
St. Louis’ Little Trolley That Couldn’t
Marc Joffe Transit policy analyst Brad Thomas recently ranked US streetcar systems by the number of passengers they carried per…
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Investing
A Fail-Safe Congressional Fiscal Commission to Fix Government Spending and Debt
Romina Boccia Members of Congress say they want to be in the driver’s seat on correcting America’s rapidly deteriorating fiscal…
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Economy
ownCloud vulnerability with maximum 10 severity score comes under “mass” exploitation
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Security researchers are tracking what they say is the “mass exploitation” of a security vulnerability that…
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Economy
Mother plucker: Steel fingers guided by AI pluck weeds rapidly and autonomously
Enlarge / The Ekobot autonomous weeding robot roving around an onion field in Sweden. (credit: Ekobot AB) Anybody who has…
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Investing
Junk Fees in Rental Housing Are a Distraction
Vanessa Brown Calder So‐called junk fees have become a popular topic this year, and rental housing is a particular area of interest…
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Investing
New Zealand Does About-Face on Plans To Impose Tobacco Prohibition
Jeffrey A. Singer New Zealand’s newly‐elected center‐right government announced yesterday that it intends to scrap a planned phase‐in of tobacco prohibition…
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