Jonathan Lee

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The Eye-Care Industry Wants Big Government to Crush the Competition

05/26/2017 Mises Wire Jonathan Lee

Big Eye is watching you. For more than a decade, lobbyists from Johnson & Johnson (J&J), which controls over 40 percent of the contact lens market as a result of their cozy relationship with...

The War Against Payday Lending

10/25/2016 Mises Wire Jonathan Lee

In June of 2016, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) put forward a proposal to regulate the short-term loan industry. The Small Dollar Lending Rule seeks to “alleviate and solve” for the...

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