The Telegraph | 4 May 2016 Unloved, untimely, and unnecessary, the putative free trade pact between Europe and America is dying a slow death. The Dutch people have amassed 100,000 signatures calling for a referendum on this Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, or TTIP as we know it. The number is likely to soar after…
Mises Institute | 1 May 2016 The United Kingdom (UK) is about to hold a referendum on June 23rd on whether it should leave or remain within the European Union (EU). Once unthinkable, the “Brexit” is becoming more and more plausible. It is seen by the mainstream media as a factor of uncertainty in Europe.…
Economic Collapse News | 27 April 2016 It turns out that socialism is proving to be really catastrophic for Venezuela. When you mix price controls, inflation, central economic planning and inept government officials, you get this: daily blackouts. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced this week that his government will order public employees to work only…
Economic Collapse News | 20 April 2016 The 2016 presidential campaign, at least on the Democratic side, has been about espousing the supposed virtues of countries like Sweden and Denmark. Bernie Sanders keeps harping about how the United States must emulate the Scandinavian countries. Should America become like Sweden? Nope, says Johan Norberg of the…
ECN | 7 March Gary Kasparov is one of the greatest chess players that have ever lived. He’s also a former citizen in the Soviet Citizen, and a harsh critic of the current Vladimir Putin regime. He’s a well-rounded guy who has a great understanding of history, especially of that of Russia. Kasparov wrote in…
Mises | 2 March 2016 The Federal Reserve is a key component of the American Transfer State. Under the guise of “macroeconomic management,” it redistributes vast amounts of wealth on an ongoing basis through inflation. The victims of these transfers are ordinary Americans. The beneficiaries are the government and its elite cronies. The Fed masks…
Stuff | 7 Feb 2016 The New Zealand government should be more realistic about the benefits of the Trans-Pacific Trade Agreement TPPA will only deliver for us if we are honest about it. But our government and business leaders aren’t. Yet, New Zealand needs them to be utterly clear-eyed and realistic about this trade and…
BBC | 17 Dec 2015 IMF chief Christine Lagarde is to stand trial in France for alleged negligence over a €404m ($438m; £294m); payment to a businessman in 2008. She was finance minister in President Nicolas Sarkozy’s government at the time of the compensation award to Bernard Tapie for the sale of a firm. Mr…
Mises | 14 Dec 2015 Jason Brennan, a remarkably prolific libertarian political philosopher, has a good eye for the essence of an argument. He puts this ability to effective use in Why Not Capitalism? In the book he challenges the defense of socialism in Why Not Socialism? by G.A. Cohen, whom Brennan rightly considers “the…
GWPF | 2 Dec 2015 China will talk a good game at the UN Climate Conference in Paris, but won’t make any binding commitments, concludes The Truth About China, an important new report published today by the Global Warming Policy Foundation. “China’s Communist Party has as its highest priority its own self-preservation, and that self-preservation depends…