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  • Aldi’s Owners Gained Riches by Cutting Prices

    Aldi’s Owners Gained Riches by Cutting Prices0

    Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders continued to bash wealth in the Democratic presidential debate Tuesday night. They view wealth as a zero-sum – that people at the top essentially stole their fortunes from the rest of us. Sanders said, “And we cannot afford a billionaire class, whose greed and corruption has been at war with the working

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  • Aldi and the Virtues of ‘Brutal Efficiency’

    Aldi and the Virtues of ‘Brutal Efficiency’1

    In recent years, we’ve witnessed a food revolution of sorts, leading to expansive consumer choice and an increasing emphasis on healthy or specialty foods that are locally and ethically sourced. In turn, a flurry of grocery chains have capitalized on such trends, with some stuffing their aisles with countless brands as others focus on “socially

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  • Alasdair MacIntyre’s Famous Comparison between the Fall of Rome and America Today

    Alasdair MacIntyre’s Famous Comparison between the Fall of Rome and America Today0

    The last paragraph of his renowned work After Virtue: “It is always dangerous to draw too precise parallels between one historical period and another; and among the most misleading of such parallels are those which have been drawn between our own age in Europe and North America and the epoch in which the Roman empire

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  • Al Gore, Vanishing Polar Ice, and the Perils of Censoring ‘Misinformation’

    Al Gore, Vanishing Polar Ice, and the Perils of Censoring ‘Misinformation’0

    While speaking at a climate change summit in Denmark in 2009, former Vice President Al Gore made an alarming statement. Citing research from Dr. Wieslaw Maslowski, a professor of oceanography at the Naval Postgraduate School in California, Mr. Gore said it was likely that the north polar ice caps would soon be completely melted. “These

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  • Airport’s Ban on Plastic Water Bottles a Flight of Fancy

    Airport’s Ban on Plastic Water Bottles a Flight of Fancy0

    • August 23, 2019

    Politicians in California like to show how much they care about making the world a better place by banning things. Making the world a better place isn’t something they seem to care much about, however, because if they did, they would be doing very different things. As Exhibit A, please consider San Francisco’s new ban

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  • Airbnb’s Co-founder Has Been Innovating since He Was a Kid

    Airbnb’s Co-founder Has Been Innovating since He Was a Kid0

    One of the key ingredients of a great entrepreneur is the ability to constantly ask yourself, “how can I make this better?” This is a question Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia has been asking himself his whole life. And it was this innate desire to innovate and improve on existing models that has taken Airbnb from

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