By Andrew Langer, President, Institute for Liberty When new technologies come to market, there are always unintended consequences. This is certainly true when it comes to new internet applications and services—sometimes unforeseen problems occur, and sometimes these apps can be used in […]
Apparently tariffs are like duct tape: there’s nothing they can’t do. With that in mind Donald Trump is going to try to use tariffs – specifically a 5% tariff on all U.S. imports from Mexico, due to take effect June 10 – in order to force the Mexican government to somehow stop illegal […]
“The Dangers Lurking behind a Digital Euro” By Thorsten Polleit, courtesy of the Austrian Economics Center Neosocialist China does it, Sweden does it, and many other states want to do it, too: to issue digitized central bank money for everyone. The European Central Bank (ECB) is also working on such a scheme. It wants […]
