Tag Archives: free-market

eBay Calls for Trading Freedom

Posted on by jsrule
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The Ebay logo during Ebay Explained 2006 at KLCC, MalaysiaPhoto from liewcf.

<>< Josh Rule : : 2008 MCPP Intern

BBC News just put up an article about eBay’s recent work to open up international trading restrictions, particularly within the European Union.  Current law makes it difficult, if not illegal, to trade goods across international borders as an online vendor.  Accordingly, traditional vendors are working to see these laws enforced to curtail online trading.  They do not want the extra competition deregulated online trading would bring.  eBay, though, has denounced these trading restrictions and promotes a system in which goods can be freely traded online, regardless of either the buyer or the seller’s geographical location. Continue reading →

An unexpected question

Posted on by rombachk
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“How do you feel about capitalism?” a friend asked. I was a bit taken aback. I’m a red-blooded American citizen – how did he think I felt about capitalism? I responded with a solid, Lockean answer: that I believed that whatever a person made with their own toil, sweat, and tears is and ought to be their uncontested property.

 “But what about communism?” he wanted to know. I had to lay aside my conditioned negative reaction to consider the question.

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