“Uber and Postmates’ Important AB-5 Lawsuit Faces an Uphill Battle” By Trace Mitchell and Jennifer Huddleston, courtesy of the Mercatus Center January 1 did not just ring in a new year and a new decade, it also heralded the start of California’s new worker classification law: Assembly Bill 5 (AB-5). Signed last […]
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Mini Schengen: a small step to better cooperation in the Western Balkans, but don’t expect too much
By Mihailo Gajic, TES Contributor The leaders of Serbia, North Macedonia and Albania recently declared their willingness to ensure closer economic cooperation in the region through the ’’Little Schengen’’ mechanism, which will increase connectivity in the Western Balkan region. A short history The region, historically plagued with political instability […]
Our Cuba policy is outdated and counterproductive
By Bill Hellman, USN/SEAL (Ret) America’s often changing policy on travel to Cuba makes very little sense when you consider our trade and travel rules with other countries who have obvious human rights and political issues contrary to American values and laws. Our current policy went into effect mid- year in 2019 […]
Washington Beyond the Headlines: Tweak Tax Reform to Help Business
By Andy Blom, TES Washington Editor The once lazy southern city of Washington, DC is lazy once more. The Senate is out of session. The House is out of session. The President is out of town. The American people are breathing sighs of relief. And free market policy people just keep on working […]
Argentina, from rich country to poor country
By Manuel Llamas, courtesy of Libertad y Progreso In the first third of the 20th century, it was one of the ten wealthiest countries in the world, today it is 63 (IMF, 2017). Why? The answer is socialism. Argentina is one of the countries that has registered a greater economic deterioration during the last century. its transit […]
A European Minimum Wage Is the Next Bad Idea from Brussels
By Bill Wirtz, courtesy of the Austrian Economics Center The incoming European Commissioner for Employment and Social Affairs has only about one thing in common with yours truly: he’s Luxembourgish. Nicolas Schmit is a lifelong socialist and has been Minister of Labor in Luxembourg for as far as I can remember. Bureaucrat-made-politician, Schmit […]
Limits on Pension Investments Hurt Returns
By Ian Madsen, courtesy of Frontier Centre for Public Policy Recently, members of ‘Extinction Rebellion’, a climate change activist group, sat in protest at the University of British Columbia, beginning a hunger strike on January 6th, trying to stop UBC’s pension fund from making or holding any investments in fossil-fuel-related companies. Sadly, the […]
Mexico prepares for “day without women”
“The strength of women” By Fatima Masse, courtesy of IMCO The brutal deaths of Fatima Cecilia, Ingrid Escamilla, Isabel Cabanillas and Brenda Josselin are just some recent and known cases of the wave of anti-woman violence that Mexico is experiencing. These crimes continue a growing trend of several years, reaching three daily femicides in […]
“Uber for Everything” Is Revolutionizing Africa’s Economy
“Uber for Everything” Is Revolutionizing Africa’s Economy By Martha Nojolomole, courtesy of the Foundation for Economic Education “Since its founding in 2008, Airbnb hosts across Africa have earned more than $400 million in direct income from renting out their properties via the service.” – Reuters, 2018 When safari guide Goodwin Ndosi first heard the […]
What coronavirus tells us about globalization (and vice versa)
“The unintended consequences of coronavirus.” By Sergio Beraldo, courtesy of IREF A new type of virus is holding the world in suspense by evoking images of the worst Hollywoodian nightmares. It is known that it spread out of Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province, China, and then quickly propagated throughout mainland China, at […]