Just in case we don’t have enough public health crises threatening to push national healthcare systems to their breaking points, here’s another chronic, non-communicable epidemic to obsess about: fatty liver disease (FLD). The specter of FLD unrelated to alcoholism (historically the main cause of the […]
Author: Erik Sass
Keeping America Great with a Space Force
By Mona Salama, TES Contributor President Trump has launched a full-fledged Space Command that will rise to the challenge of defending and preserving U.S. dominance in space — but only if Congress approves it. Democrat lawmakers need to support the President’s proposal and stop […]
Don’t worry about Serbia’s trade deals — democracy and rule of law are more pressing concerns
By Mihailo Gajic, Head of Research, LIBEK & TES Contributor On October 25th, Serbia will sign a trade deal with the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), a Russian-backed trade federation — a mostly symbolic move which has however led to a widespread, and totally erroneous, belief that Serbia actually intends to […]
China’s government fears Hong Kong-Taiwan axis
The Chinese government’s deepening paranoia about the protests in Hong Kong, which Beijing blames on meddling by outside powers (read: the U.S.), is unlikely to be relieved by the appearance of strengthening ties between Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement and Taiwan, which has enjoyed full (if […]
The EU’s Competition and Antitrust Tightrope
By Rebecca Christie and Mathew Heim, courtesy of the Bruegel Institute The European Union, the world’s largest consumer market, needs a clearer vision for how it wants to manage competition and state subsidies affecting European markets and consumers. As business becomes ever more inter-connected, […]
TES Weekly Update: America needs a Space Force with teeth
Like it or not, space is already being militarized For those of us old enough to remember the Cold War — ah, simpler times, when all we had to worry about was the horrifyingly real possibility of nuclear annihilation at any moment without warning — the idea of the United States creating a real […]
U.S. energy independence won’t free it from foreign entanglements
The rise of fracking has turned the U.S. into an oil exporter and raises the possibility of total energy independence, something unthinkable two decades ago. However the potential for supplying all its own fossil fuel demand will not magically free the U.S. from […]
Is ECB stimulus too late?
While monetary “hawks” tend to reject any further monetary easing from the European Central Bank like the plague, doveish types are afraid that the ECB’s latest round of easing didn’t go far enough, and may have come too late anyway. The doves’ point […]
Hold on tight, Argentina, you’re in for a rough ride
By Mercedes Colombres, Media Director, Libertad y Progreso (original) Economist Aldo Abram, the invited speaker for an exclusive breakfast for members of Libertad y Progreso, hosted at the Feirs Park Hotel with support from the Naumann Foundation, envisioned a difficult path for the […]
Donor agencies must not pay to turn South Africa into Zimbabwe
By Richard Tren, TES Contributor Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s ruler for 37 years, is now dead at the age of 95 and after an elaborate state funeral, is thankfully no longer a threat to his people, civilization, or to decency. Though he will no […]