39 days ago by Matthew Bentley

I want you all to investigate the coffee shop, 'Tim Hortons'. You will need to look at the website and read the article below, then answer the questions underneath the article: http://www.timhortons.com/ca/en/index.html Canadian coffee titan aims to be hot in UAE Dec 11 th 2011 Tim Hortons is a coff ...

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52 days ago by Matthew Bentley

The UK Competition Commission has published an important report into the market structure of local and regional bus services in the UK, twenty five years after the industry was deregulated and largely privatised. Largely as a result of a long-term process of consolidation through merger and acquisit ...

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56 days ago by Matthew Bentley

This excellent news piece from Ben Cohen at Channel 4 looks at the increasingly aggressive patent war being fought by the manufacturers of the world’s leading mobile phone and tablet devices - the most profitable products in the digital economy. “Where once the giants (Google and Apple) competed on ...

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69 days ago by MCCEconInstructor

http://www.kwtx.com/money/headlines/Airlines_Attempt_To_Raise_Domestic_Fares_Again_134921023.html

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91 days ago by Parker Sheppard

Recent articles from Taylor Branch, Seth Davis, and Andy Schwartz, among others, are part of a call for reform of the collegiate athletics system. Some argue that the system needs some tinkering, but by and large should be maintained. In this essay, I will argue that colleges need to reexamine the p ...

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93 days ago by Mel

The Senate defeated a measure to block new FCC rules on net neutrality; that is, providers could not or give priority to their own content or block competitors. "[Sen. Kay Bailey] Hutchinson said the rules were yet another example of the 'Obama administration's relentless imposition of new and destr ...

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106 days ago by Jim Cook

Americans Elect is a 501c4 corporation that wants to run its own candidate for President of the United States but that refuses to tell the public where its money is coming from. Although Americans Elect characterizes its nomination process as a democratic election, the Americans Elect corporate byla ...

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109 days ago by Jim Luke

There are many reasons why costs in higher education have been rising faster than inflation for many decades. A fundamental reason is because education is so labor-intensive and (so far) has been resistant to improved productivity via capital investment or technology. This is called Baumol’s Cost Di ...

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110 days ago by SEE-AMC

Over the past several years Real Estate Appraisers have been dealing with increased demands in the appraisal report. This is affectingly called in the profession as “scope creep”. Back in the good old days when the appraiser received an appraisal request it seemed a lot easier than it is now. The ap ...

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112 days ago by Neil Garfield

MOST POPULAR ARTICLES GET COMBO TITLE AND SECURITIZATION ANALYSIS – CLICK HERE BREAK UP BANK OLIGOPOLY EDITOR’S COMMENT: Amongst many other respected and experienced economists, Simon Johnson has been vocal in his basic premise: The bank oligopoly must be destroyed if we are to see any real possibil ...

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