By Calum Nicholson, UK Correspondent The prolific blogger and former Russian airline executive D.M. Cummings famously broke into fiction with his 2016 conspiracy thriller Let’s Leave!, which became a bestseller and publishing phenomenon in the UK, following a scrappy marketing campaign that went unexpectedly viral. It’s a tale that itself hardly needs recounting. A […]
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Europe urgently needs a capital markets union
By Maria Demertzis, courtesy of the Bruegel Institute Necessary though it was, the temporary relaxation of state aid rules in the EU has brought grave unintended consequences. Through indiscriminate support, the EU is rapidly moving from an even playing field that promotes the “survival of the fittest” to a situation where only those […]
The Great EU Airline Refund Scam
By Bill Wirtz, courtesy of the Austrian Economics Center At first 12, now 16 EU member states are looking to overturn rules requiring airlines to refund passengers with cash payments if their flight had been cancelled as a result of COVID-19 travel restrictions. The companies have been lobbying the European Council to disable […]
Pandemic highlights Latin American innovators – and laggards
By Federico N. Fernández, Somos Innovación The innovation scene in Latin America shows two faces that couldn’t be more different from each other. I think the following three examples help us to explain what I see: Just a year ago, a group of Chilean Senators proposed a bill called “decent digital […]
Killing the patient to save the finger: COVID-19 is a metaphor for our time
By Martin J. Stransky, MD, courtesy of The New Presence In the coming months, the current CoV19 epidemic will be increasingly viewed from a social, political, and economic perspective. Though the epidemic isn’t over yet, some telling conclusions can already be drawn regarding laws of human nature and our current society. […]
Targeting H-1B visas won’t help fight COVID-19, but will delay recovery
By Oliver McPherson-Smith, American Consumer Institute The COVID-19 pandemic has dealt a significant blow to America’s economy and countless Americans will be looking for jobs in the coming months. To ease competition in the labor force, four senators are pushing for a ban on certain temporary workers. But the plan would also block highly-educated […]
Hydroxychloroquine vs. COVID-19
HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE Research Bibliography & Digest The Economic Standard is gathering medical research about hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for COVID-19, alone or in combination with other drugs, published (or about to be published) in academic journals. Have a study? Submit citations with brief summaries, ideally from the text itself, via the submissions box below the […]
Putting Trump’s Treatment in Context
By Erik Sass, TES Editor-in-Chief On May 18, President Trump announced that he began taking a combination of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), azithromycin, and zinc about 10 days prior. This was around the same time that multiple White House staffers were reported to have contracted the novel coronavirus. The President appears to be taking this […]
Washington Beyond the Headlines: Are Businesses Competing with Prison Labor?
By Andy Blom, TES Washington Editor The number one question in America this week is: When should we open? Thoughtful free market policy people are proposing ways to lead us out of this crisis…and some other crises as well. As Washington goes back to work…and considers spending a whole lot more of your money… […]
On vaccine, World Health Assembly putting cart before the horse
By Roger Bate, American Enterprise Institute (AEI) The World Health Assembly which begins today is the most important in living memory. Normally it lasts for a mind-numbingly boring week and addresses myriad issues, but this time it’s only taking two days, with the focus on Covid-19. NPR is setting this up as […]