In a recent Kaizen interview, Argentine entrepreneur Enrique Duhau discussed some of the challenges of doing business in a country with a politicized economy. I was reminded of Campante and Glaeser’s comparative study of Buenos Aires and Chicago, two cities that were very similar in the nineteenth century. They were similar in population size, with […]
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Walking to the train station, I photographed this street sign in Chicago: I was reminded of Rand’s caustic remarks exactly 50 years ago about Minow and government censorship: “And then there is Newton N. Minow [then chairman of the Federal Communications Commission] who declares: ‘There is censorship by ratings, by advertisers, by networks, by affiliates
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I spent the day in Chicago on Thursday, the day after the Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup. The Blackhawks hadn’t won it all since 1961, and the signs of celebration were everywhere. As I walked around, I recalled that the White Sox won the World Series in 2005, the Bulls dominated basketball in the 1990s,
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