“A Fear of Regime Change is Slowing the Global Economy” By Uri Dadush, courtesy of Bruegel Institute Global GDP has slowed sharply, from near 4% in late 2017 to half that rate on an annualised basis in recent quarters. The downturn in fortunes over the last two years has come as a big surprise. […]
Author: Erik Sass
Blocking GM crops has killed, blinded millions of children
It’s an article of faith among many environmentalists that genetically modified (GM) foods are bad. Why? Apparently because they came out a laboratory and science is bad (never mind that virtually all the foods we already eat were already genetically modified, by painstaking selective breeding by our ancestors over thousands of years). Of […]
Telehealth can help America get back to work quicker
By Davis Warnell and Andrea O’Sullivan, courtesy of the Mercatus Center When employees get sick, it’s like their companies get a little sick, too. Employee health can have dramatic impacts on company productivity. The Integrated Benefits Institute estimates that poor employee health imposes $880 billion in annual costs, which includes a $530 billion deficit […]
Brexit: Now it’s time to wait
By Anthony Egan, courtesy of Open Europe Earlier this week, Parliament voted in favour of the Withdrawal Agreement Bill in principle but rejected the Government’s timetable for scrutinising the Bill and final vote. While the Bill has cleared the first hurdle to ratification, which would secure the UK’s negotiated departure from the EU, […]
Argentina’s New Look: Get ready for a haircut, bondholders
Argentina’s likely next president, Alberto Fernandez, has signaled his intention to “restructure” the country’s debt, meaning another selective default following the one already imposed by current president Maurico Macri in August. The terms currently proposed by Fernandez, who is widely expected to win the country’s next election slated to begin October 27, involve […]
Doing Business 2020: Much ado about (almost) nothing
By Mihailo Gajic, TES Contributor The World Bank recently issued the new version of its regulatory index, Doing Business 2020. Central and Eastern European countries continue to show signs of good business regulation quality: Georgia (ranked 7th), Lithuania (11th) and Northern Macedonia (17th) top the list of transition economies, while Serbia is ranked […]
Achieving Economic Security Depends on Assuring National Security
By James Edwards, Executive Director of Conservatives for Property Rights “Economic security is national security.” Different officials have made this statement over the years. Only, now the news has begun to catch up and validate the truth it expresses. Reports have proliferated, exposing various ways America’s competitors — particularly China and […]
Pot earnings disappoint, but growers and execs remain, like, unfazed
Anyone who predicted that broad legalization of cannabis for medical and recreational uses, still gathering momentum around the world, would translate into an easy payday for growers and investors, were disabused of this pleasant vision over the last year. Earnings of major growers and retailers have disappointed, sending pot stocks spiraling downward. Nonetheless […]
UK needs levee en masse to fight invasive species
The problem of invasive species has grown so pervasive in the UK that national and local authorities are no longer able to deal with the problem on their own, according to a new report by a number of MPs from across the political spectrum, summarized in the Guardian. The solution? A “citizen army” […]
Offshore wind power could meet all global electricity demand
While it may not fulfill this role in the near term, a new report from the International Energy Agency suggests that offshore wind power — referring to wind turbines built in shallow areas of the ocean, relatively close to land — could one day supply all of the world’s electricity needs. Total wind […]