International
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Italy “Abolishes Poverty” by Spending More Money
Economists have pondered for centuries, if not millennia, how to get rid of poverty, starvation, and all other kinds of social ills. Seemingly they did not think about asking Luigi di Maio, the 32-year-old deputy prime minister of Italy.
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Brazil: The Challenges Ahead
The economy is in depression, the unemployment rate is in the double digits, and the fiscal situation is bleak.
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The Economic Outrage of the Ex-Im Bank
“It is time to put an end to all corporate privilege. We should start by abolishing, completely and permanently, the Ex-Im Bank.” ~ Veronique de Rugy
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The Welfare State Is Politically Incompatible with Diversity
“The much-heralded ‘postwar consensus’ created this problem, out of misguided dreams of a caretaker state that managed the whole of life for everyone in who manages to fit within its inflated geographic orbit. The dream was too big, too expansive, too expensive, and it used the wrong means (force over choice). Something has to give…
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Is Nationalism the Friend or Foe of Liberty?
A nationalism that presents itself as a friend of liberty is one that must willfully ignore that most bitter lessons of the last century, while eschewing the greatest lesson of all: the only true guarantor of liberty is liberty itself.
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Dark Tourist Is More Than Just Another Travel Show
What Farrier proves with “Dark Tourist” is that for every version of Anthony Bourdain’s “No Reservation,” where the host connects with the locals and draws profound lessons from their way of living, there’s a tourist who just wants to get skin-deep into the next attraction, just so he can then move on to the next,…
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The Turkish Currency Crisis and What It Can Teach Us
Since 2010, the balance sheet of the Turkish central bank has more than tripled. This expansion came as the result of putting an end to the independence of the Turkish central bank by Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan. He was democratically elected in 2014 and re-elected in 2018. Over the years since he took power,…
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Economic Armaments and China’s Global Ambitions
The Chinese government’s insistence on “making China great again” through various forms of command and control (at home and abroad) suggests that things are not likely to work out according to plan.
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Monetary Exclusion
Whether Iran deserves to be re-embargoed is a complicated matter. But we know for sure that such embargoes put the dollar’s dominant role in the global payments system at risk.
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Italy “Abolishes Poverty” by Spending More Money
Economists have pondered for centuries, if not millennia, how to get rid of poverty, starvation, and all other kinds of social ills. Seemingly they did not think about asking Luigi di Maio, the 32-year-old deputy prime minister of Italy.
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Brazil: The Challenges Ahead
The economy is in depression, the unemployment rate is in the double digits, and the fiscal situation is bleak.
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The Economic Outrage of the Ex-Im Bank
“It is time to put an end to all corporate privilege. We should start by abolishing, completely and permanently, the Ex-Im Bank.” ~ Veronique de Rugy
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The Welfare State Is Politically Incompatible with Diversity
“The much-heralded ‘postwar consensus’ created this problem, out of misguided dreams of a caretaker state that managed the whole of life for everyone in who manages to fit within its inflated geographic orbit. The dream was too big, too expansive, too expensive, and it used the wrong means (force over choice). Something has to give…
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Is Nationalism the Friend or Foe of Liberty?
A nationalism that presents itself as a friend of liberty is one that must willfully ignore that most bitter lessons of the last century, while eschewing the greatest lesson of all: the only true guarantor of liberty is liberty itself.
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Dark Tourist Is More Than Just Another Travel Show
What Farrier proves with “Dark Tourist” is that for every version of Anthony Bourdain’s “No Reservation,” where the host connects with the locals and draws profound lessons from their way of living, there’s a tourist who just wants to get skin-deep into the next attraction, just so he can then move on to the next,…
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The Turkish Currency Crisis and What It Can Teach Us
Since 2010, the balance sheet of the Turkish central bank has more than tripled. This expansion came as the result of putting an end to the independence of the Turkish central bank by Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan. He was democratically elected in 2014 and re-elected in 2018. Over the years since he took power,…
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Economic Armaments and China’s Global Ambitions
The Chinese government’s insistence on “making China great again” through various forms of command and control (at home and abroad) suggests that things are not likely to work out according to plan.
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•
Monetary Exclusion
Whether Iran deserves to be re-embargoed is a complicated matter. But we know for sure that such embargoes put the dollar’s dominant role in the global payments system at risk.