Latest advertising and marketing and promoting information for Travel & Leisure, together with insights and opinions. The stillness of the north and east presents a sharp distinction to the mood within the capital, Colombo, which is the place I began my journey—as most visitors to the island will. Not surprisingly, that metropolis has seen the most change since the warfare’s finish. The distinction is especially evident in Fort, a four hundred-12 months-outdated hub of government and business that was closed off for many years, for worry of Tiger attacks. The face-raise is the work of the military, which makes for a discomfiting reflection. Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, the earlier defense secretary who spearheaded the renovations, is still beneath a cloud of allegations involving corruption and human-rights abuses, and in elements of the nation, troopers are still regarded with wary mistrust.

As in different major service industries in the Netherlands, the taxi market has been decentralised, although there are nonetheless primary taxi bureaux (Taxi Centraale). ‘Official’ taxis have a blue quantity plate. For impartial firms, check your native a-z listings below ‘Taxibedrijf’. There is also a particular service to and from Schiphol airport that provides mounted charges and should be booked in advance (see beneath). (Guests to Amsterdam ought to learn Taxis in Amsterdam ).

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Robin Hanson and Karl Smith both have posts responding to De Loecker and Eeckhout’s paper and attacking the Market Power Story. Both give explanation why they think rising markups point out monopolistic competitors, relatively than entry limitations. But both appear to neglect that monopolistic competition causes deadweight loss Simply because it has the phrase “competition” in it does NOT mean that monopolistic competitors is environment friendly. It is not.

However the danger is that safeguards put in place to exclude this small minority of pool-pissers will wind up – to extend the metaphor – over-chlorinating the pool. The perfect instance of that is the Battle on Terror. One guy tries (unsuccessfully) to cover a bomb in his shoe, and the subsequent day we’re caught going through the bullshit security theater of shoe removing for all eternity. The danger of administrative overreaction should never be ignored.