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Matt Ridley points to evidence that free markets make us nicer [2].

Mark Perry wonders if restaurants that charge during dinner hours higher prices than they charge during lunchtime are price gougers [3].

Pierre Lemieux tackles the objection to free trade that runs as follows: ‘You can’t benefit from free trade if you don’t have a job.’ [4]

Here’s my Mercatus Center colleague Dan Griswold on the recent shrinkage of the U.S. trade deficit and the recent disappointing job numbers [5].

Dan Ikenson laments the ‘trade terrorism’ that is protectionism [6].  A slice:

The U.S. trade laws are a form of economic terrorism. They are deployed unexpectedly and with stealth; they cripple their intended targets, while generating enormous amounts of collateral damage to other companies, industries and jobs; and they cast a long shadow of uncertainty over the costs and conditions of operating in the market prospectively.

Ryan Bourne reports on one way that Shake Shack is responding to minimum wages [7].  (It’s not good news for low-skilled workers.)

My intrepid Mercatus Center colleague Veronique de Rugy is rightly critical of some bad, Keynesian-edition arguments for tax reform [8].

In this interview, my colleague Dick Wagner remembers the real James Buchanan [9].

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