Courtesy of Libertad y Progreso, via Xinhua Argentina needs to carry out a series of structural reforms, including in labor and tax matters, to return to the path of economic growth, according to an Argentine economist interviewed on Wednesday. Natalia Motyl, an analyst […]
Author: Erik Sass
California’s AB5 will kill gig economy
New regulation, higher costs, more taxes — that’s how you foster innovation and encourage economic growth, right? Oh right, that’s how you do that other, “killing it off” thing. Well, California’s legislators have embraced the first view, and in their wisdom passed AB5, […]
Deja vu, all over again
By Emilio Ocampo, Board Member, Libertad y Progreso (original) Déjà vu, groundhog day, a nagging feeling that you have already experienced the present. These are expressions everybody seems to be using these days to describe the current Argentine crisis. Below is some confirmatory evidence that Yogi Berra’s most quoted aphorism is always applicable in […]
Carbon Taxes Will Never Be Enough
By Hayden Ludwig, Capital Research Center There’s a pervasive myth among “eco-cons”—conservatives who accept the theory of global warming—that we can tax our way out of a climate crisis. The myth goes like this: the Earth is getting dangerously warm and humanity is to […]
Greater price transparency will reduce medical costs
Price transparency is an obvious driver of effective market dynamics: the more buyers and sellers know about the actual cost factors underlying the prices of competing products and services, the better equipped they will be to compare their relative value (or lack thereof) and make […]
SE Asian countries need to focus on knowledge economy
A global crossroads boasting young, tech-savvy populations and far-flung trade connections, Southeast Asia is well positioned to become an economic hub. But to do this national governments must first lay the groundwork by embracing policies designed to foster innovation and the knowledge economy, […]
Analyzing health records, insurance claims speeds new treatments
Historically the trove of medical and para-medical information known as “real-world evidence,” including health records but also insurance claims and patient registries, has mostly been used as a source for additional evaluation of the efficacy of existing drugs after they have already been approved. But […]
TES GeoPolicy Editor McGroarty on the Tech Metal Age
Address by Dan McGroarty, TES GeoPolicy Editor Human history has been defined by our ability to obtain and use minerals, from the Stone Age, Copper Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age, to the Industrial Revolution (steel and coal) to the Jet Age (aluminum and […]
Diabetes Breakthrough Signals Need For New Treatment Approach
A major breakthrough in the clinical approach to type 2 diabetes holds out hope that newly diagnosed individuals can avoid many of the disease’s worst effects for far longer, according to Sir Michael Hirst and Dr. Päivi Maria Paldánius writing in CapX. Based on […]
Ban eating on public transit to fight obesity?
Obesity is clearly weighing on everyone’s mind (eh?) with a flurry of opinion and commentary, all of it predictably anti-. At issue is how far the government should go in curtailing individual liberty to combat fast-expanding waistlines, which in turn raises the […]