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EU’s Digital Market Act: Impending Consequences for Global Consumers
Economy
EU’s Digital Market Act: Impending Consequences for Global Consumers
March 7, 2024, marks a significant date for the European Union and, potentially, the global digital landscape. A completely new set of rules for controlling competition will be fully applied. The Digital Market Act (DMA) reaches its final implementation milestone, aiming to create \"fair digital markets\" within the EU by curbing the influence of major tech companies.
Let’s Not Raise Minimum Wage. Let’s Abolish It!
Economy
Let’s Not Raise Minimum Wage. Let’s Abolish It!
It is telling that the public almost unquestioningly believes that the minimum wage helps low-income people in particular. But as the prominent Czech economist Robert Holman writes in his textbook on microeconomics, \"If economists agree on anything, it is that legislating a minimum wage increases unemployment.\"