Costs are a critical variable to consider when plotting business strategy. After all, if you can't recover the expenses required to create your product through revenue and profit, then the business ...

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Reader MJ argues that the Laffer Curve remains important because even if we're not actually maximizing tax revenue, it offers an insight into the economic cost of taxation: "I also take it to mean ...