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A little karate
On electricity deregulation |
Sean Casten |
20 Sep 2007 |
Gristmill |
| In The Karate Kid, Mr. Miyagi advises that 'It is good to know karate. It is good not to know karate. It is not good to know a little karate.' With the price caps now coming off in the few states that partially deregulated their electricity grids, there is a rising backlash against competitive markets, with some of that backlash even coming from normally pro-market groups like The Cato Institute. This backlashers generally argue that partial deregulation has taught us th ... |
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