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Google employees should recognize that it's okay to work with a person you believe is wrong. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)
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Yes, Google screwed up in the wake of the Las Vegas shooting — but that’s what markets are for

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In a move to protect Boeing, the department recently decided to impose a 220 percent import duty on Bombardier planes from Canada. (Qilai Shen/Bloomberg)
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Canada is trying to give us cheaper products, but the US Commerce Department is messing it up

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We're going to be told a number of things which are not true about all of this, so here's a handy guide to some of those misleading claims. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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The new Trump & GOP tax framework is making all the right enemies

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Target has announced that wages in its stores will now have a minimum starting rate of $11 an hour, rising to $15 by 2020. All of which proves that Karl Marx was indeed right. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
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Target proves Karl Marx was right about why wages rise

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Steve Bannon tells us all that the American system was based on economic protectionism -- Hey, it worked in the 19th century so it would work now, right? It's an appealing contention with only one problem - it's wrong. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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Where Steve Bannon and other protectionists go wrong on free trade and tariffs

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Why isn't Apple piling the phones up high to capitalize on the publicity they've got? (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)
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Apple is wise not to make the much-hyped new iPhone available yet

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There's much blustering about how yet another Silicon Valley starts-up, Bodega, wants to drive actual bodegas out of business. Whiny talking points include claims that the little shops are the entry point to the American Dream for impoverished immigrants and how dare anyone create a vending machine to put them out of business? (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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Bodega wants to drive bodegas out of business – excellent, that’s the point of business

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Larry Summers is both a clever man and a very good economist. But when he's talking politics, he's as fallible as any other. (AP Photo/Feng Li, Pool)
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The inherent follies of giving the government more money to spend

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The Reagan reforms, with subsequent minor adjustments, seem to have got us to roughly the right place for maximizing revenue. (AP Photo/Charles Tasnadi)
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Why we know Reagan’s tax reforms worked

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For some people seem to think that money paid to stockholders -- that money which is the very reason investors put their cash into companies in the first place -- disappears when it is paid out. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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We should be rooting for a corporate tax holiday on repatriated profits

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