Episode 75: If You Want Prosperity for All, Try Economic Freedom
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The Unintended Consequences of the Plastic Straw Ban
"This is top of my list now amongst unintended consequences. You ban the straw because of the plastic and the market responds by producing more plastic than you had to begin with," he says. "It's the perfect answer to a non-existent problem as near as I can tell, but hats off to Starbucks hereBecause they're actually, I think, acting according to market forces."
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