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Japan: Absurd Open-Market Forces in the US: Ohtani Effect Leads to Soaring Dodgers Ticket Prices and Empty Ballpark Seats

Dorothy Phoenix - May 15, 2024. Published in Sankei Shimbun

Free market forces do not necessarily meet modest expectations on the customers' side.

Hong Kong: The Emperor’s New Clothes and the United States

Matthew McKay - March 29, 2024. Published in Takungpao

[T]he whole world is witness to the U.S. openly turning its back on core values ... striding along naked with the face of a despot.

Uganda: Musk’s Twitter Changes Could Fuel Tyranny

Lalatendu Das - July 8, 2023. Published in Monitor

The West has made us think that odious corruption and thievery by corporations is 'free market capitalism.'

Zimbabwe: Economic Polarization in US Shows Failure of Capitalism

Lalatendu Das - March 10, 2023. Published in The Herald

Currently 37 million American people are still living below the poverty datum line.

South Africa: If the US Is Going To Preach Free Market Economics, It Must Surely Practice It

Lalatendu Das - June 2, 2021. Published in Cape Times

Investing in specific industries and sectors is all fair and well but to intervene deliberately ... contradicts the doctrine of a free market economy.

Egypt: The Socialist States of America?

Robin Koerner - May 22, 2021. Published in Al-Ahram

The leftist rhetoric presently infecting the United States stands in sharp contrast to the country’s most authentic free-market traditions.

Netherlands: America Is a Cartel Paradise. For Real Competition You Have To Be in the EU

Robin Koerner - August 24, 2018. Published in Het Financieele Dagblad

European, rather than American, politicians are now the world’s foremost defenders of fair competition.

Israel: A Decade Late, Barack Obama Is Waking Up

Robin Koerner - May 14, 2016. Published in The Marker

Obama, who arrived in the White House as the great hope of many, as somebody who was vowing to overthrow the rule of money and lobbyists in Washington, failed totally, that is if he even tried.

Canada: 6 Years Later, There Are Still Lessons To Learn!

Robin Koerner - September 21, 2014. Published in Le Devoir

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