Despite Walgreens being ranked as one of America’s most trusted brands, with a rich history dating back to 1901, 500 stores are slated to shut their doors in 2025 with more closures to come in the years following.
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Free Markets Help Workers Flourish
The fundamental principle that we need to recognize to help all workers flourish, ignored by most labor unions and governments alike, is freedom.
Should Business Be Selfish?
Selfishness guides business to trade value for value with all parties – wages for employees’ productivity, products and services for customers’ payment, payment for suppliers’ products, and so on – by mutual consent, for mutual benefit, with no deception or fraud. This is the only way business can maximize long-term profits – and the reason it should be selfish.
The Fossil Fuel Industry Should Defend Itself Against Congressional Smears
Fossil fuel companies should say two things when threatened for expressing pro-fossil-fuel opinions: 1) We have a 1st Amendment right to our opinions on energy and climate, and 2) We are now going to talk a lot more about the benefits, including climate benefits, of our industry.
Business Schools Undermine Wealth Creation
Students should be reminded that money-making is not an evil endeavor when done ethically and efficiently, and productive pursuits do not need to be tasked with tackling societal ills.
The Rich Aren’t Rich Enough
Eating The Rich Won’t Feed the Statist Beast
Dollar Stores are a Beautiful Thing
Carlson is entitled to his view of dollar stores as being ugly, but for individuals and families who appreciate the offerings, services, and availability of a discount retailer in their neighborhood, it is surely a beautiful thing.
The Multifront Attack on Business Hero Elon Musk
The attacks on Elon Musk seem like something straight out of an Ayn Rand novel. The successful and innovative entrepreneur is attacked on all sides by institutions and people who live off the system rather than innovate around and beyond it.
Celebrate Amazon, Not Persecute It
Justice demands that we should celebrate Amazon rather than persecute it.
The “Anti-Capitalist Business”: The Impossible Dream
The cause of The Anarchist’s struggle for survival and impending demise is its anti-capitalist business model, rooted in the proprietor’s Marxist strawman-view of capitalism.
Unfair Labor Practices? Why Don’t You Go Somewhere Else?
Unionized workers effectively form a cartel that would be illegal under antitrust laws as an obvious “restraint of trade” if unions had not been specifically exempted from the rules.
State Investing, Not ESG, Is the Political Problem
The problem isn’t so much that a company takes ideological considerations into account in its business practices so much as that governments — such as state-run pension funds — are imposing ideological agendas on businesses via this financial control.
Defending Grocery Stores’ “Excess” Profits
We should celebrate, not resent, the grocers’ profits.
This Labor Day, Don’t Praise Labor Unions
This Labor Day, the real threat to election integrity isn’t at your polling place–it’s at your workplace.
Biden Scapegoats ‘Mom and Pop’ Gas Station Owners For Rising Gas Prices
More than 60 percent of retail gas stations are establishments singularly owned by a family or an individual. And while the number has undoubtedly changed over the last decade, 2013 Census data reported that 61 percent of those stations are owned by immigrants.
New “Stakeholder Capitalism” Means More Statism
How is the new stakeholderism different? Unlike the old stakeholderism, it is mandatory.
The Poetry of Work
“Poetry of work” is worth pursuing. It gives us purpose—and it gives us happiness.
Elon Musk, Person of the Year, Radicalized by Lockdowns
Elon Musk has turned into a true American, a resistor, a revolutionary. His influence in business and philosophical outlook offers a real path forward. He deserves every congratulations for refusing to go along with ruling-class ideology and instead demand that most essential thing, the freedom to trade, speak, run a business, and innovate without government interference.
The Virtue of Business
Instead of disdain and condemnation, businesses and businesspeople deserve our gratitude.
The Virtuous Circle of Profits and People
It’s mistaken to think that pursuing profits harms people. Profit-seeking by business does not harm but rather benefits people, beyond its owners.
Corporate Welfare vs. Capitalism
Today’s politicians want to spend more on EVERYTHING: Amtrak subsidies, sports stadium subsidies, green energy subsidies, even fossil fuel subsidies …
Laissez-Faire Capitalism: The Way to Economic Recovery After Government Lockdowns
If we want to build economies back for continual growth and prosperity, we need the government to unchain businesses and set them free to produce again.
Business Execs Can’t Maximize Profits and Bash Capitalism
Business leaders and owners who think they can create profits regardless of the social system are evading facts. Profit maximization cannot be sustained in socialism or any other freedom-killing statist system toward which America seems headed today.
American Fountainhead: Business Hero Steve Jobs
Jobs has spent a lifetime living by Roark’s own singular rulebook not as the designer of buildings, but as the architect of a new approach to technology.
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