Demise of LifeWay: Changing times or because they peddled heresy?
It’s not the best of times to be a book store in 2019. Amazon crushed much of the competition. Still, Lifeway remained the retail branch of the Southern Baptist Convention until its announced closure of all of its stores back in March. The brand will continue to operate online. The SBC is embattled with confusion and […]
Standard Oil: A case study of why monopolies are good
In school, you learn that in an unregulated free market, monopolies arise and consumers lose. But how true is this assertion? In theory, a monopoly means that one company can then price gauge consumers and consumers lose, right? But how true is this theory? John D Rockefeller is well known and well villainized for his […]
NBA players choose collusion over competition
In every other sports league, there is competition among the franchises. The NFL has new teams rising and falling every year. Baseball is a whole new season, come October. The NHL playoffs are perhaps the most exciting competition in all of sports. In college basketball, a 16 beat a 1. Yet in opposition to its […]