ONLINE retail giant Amazon could face a legal battle with a Spanish workers’ union following a report that it hired private investigators to infiltrate and secretly observe a strike.

A classic refrain below. The alternative is that the government can actually make things and not wait for private markets to figure it out and even then it is not operating like a capitalist enterprise.

For example, when government spends money on basic research, it typically doesn’t capture the monetary value that research creates. But the eventual economic benefits, which are reaped by companies downstream of government-funded research, tend to vastly outweigh the cost. The government doesn’t need to be the one who gets paid, as long as society gets paid. The same is often true of environmental cleanup, road networks and anything with a positive externality.

Montreal Technical College didn’t start offering online courses until 8 months after pandemic hit