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6 hours ago by Abe N. Margallo

While summing up the thesis of World Bank economist Alessandro Magnoli Bocchi in “ Rising Growth, Declining Investment: The Puzzle of the Philippines,” Cocoy has tried to explain the puzzle in his own words: The answer according to the same policy paper (of Bocchi) is that while foreign direct inves ...

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1 day ago by admin

Oh – No! Not again! Why can’t we just all get along? Allegations of price fixing ? I remember something about that from Economics 101. Oligopoly come to mind? Thought so…Many serious chocolate fans may have been over paying too much for too long. Or that’s what a few of the Government (G-Men) have t ...

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2 days ago by Procurement

Contract Lesson: The Privity of Contract Rule states that if you aren't a party to a contract, eg: a third party, than you cannot enforce any terms under the contract. There are exceptions such as those provided by the Contract (Rights of Third Parties) Act. Negotiation Lesson: It is unlikely you wo ...

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5 days ago by wallace

Public-plan proponents have feigned ignorance of how such an option would crowd out the public market. The answer is simple: a public plan would be a political, not a market, entity. Its justification is premised on a belief that the insurance market is not competitive and that insurers price oligop ...

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18 days ago by Rat

We have to decouple the relationship of health insurance to employment. That is the beginning of all ills in the system. jbranstetter04

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32 days ago by Before You Invest

CME Group Inc. and Citadel Investment Group have signed five prominent money managers to their fledgling credit-swap default joint venture. But the launch of the business — targeting a $29-trillion market — is being thwarted by an “oligopoly” of banks that want to keep business at a rival clearingho ...

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37 days ago by Thomas

In this discursive post, I use the economic concept of perfect competition as a starting point from which to defend monopoly and to expose the folly and futility of governmental intervention in markets. PERFECT COMPETITION AS A BOGUS STANDARD I learned, in the standard microeconomics of my college d ...

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46 days ago by Safe Stocks

Monkey Business Swinging Through the Wall Street Jungle As eager-beaver business school students, Rolfe and Troob garnered job offers as junior associates at the elite Wall Street investment bank Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, lured by dreams of wealth, glamour and power. Readers whose fascination wi ...

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47 days ago by apintalisayon

I introduced trans-societal Megatrend #1 in an earlier blog ( “Q14- Naming Trans-Societal Megatrend #1: towards Yin?”). I summarized Megatrend #1 (see blog “KM and trans-societal megatrend #1″) as: Trans-societal Megatrend #2 (introduced in blog Q26- Information: another Force for Democratization) c ...

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50 days ago by Ganesh Prasad

I've been crying myself hoarse for years about the need for liquid (i.e., competitive) markets. A free market does not mean a laissez-faire market. It means a market that is guaranteed to be liquid, with plenty of buyers and sellers, and with no player large enough to influence prices through its ac ...

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