Like so many technological revolutions before it, the Internet of Things is being broadly embraced without any consideration for its implications for society — and that includes mass surveillance courtesy of seemingly innocuous items like digital doorbells, which just happen to be equipped with […]
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Ex-Im “Reform” Documents Look Like More of the Same Crony Capitalism
By Veronique de Rugy, Senior Research Fellow, Courtesy of Mercatus Center It has been disheartening, though not completely surprising, to watch the Republican party move from being the driving force behind terminating the crony capitalist agency known as the Export-Import Bank to a party […]
New bill would target transit funding to places that allow housing density
By Salim Furth, Senior Research Fellow, Courtesy of Mercatus Center. On Thursday, Rep. Scott Peters (D-CA) introduced a bill intended to alleviate the national housing supply shortage, which is acute in coastal areas such as Rep. Peters’ San Diego district. Since […]
How can populism govern without money?
By Agustín Etchebarne, Director, Libertad y Progresso Originally published in Ambito Financiero. Courtesy of Libertad y Progresso. The uncertainty generated by the possible triumph of the Peronist Fernández-Fernández ticket in Argentina is big and impossible to dismiss at the moment. Naturally, the markets […]
Sorry, Portuguese recovery was no “miracle”
Colombia may be the home of magic realism as a literary movement, but Argentina seems to be the home of magical thinking as a governing philosophy. The latest trend in magical wish fulfillment has Argentines looking across the Atlantic Ocean to Portugal, which supposedly […]
Combo Therapy Offers Better Control of Diabetes, Study Suggests
This week brought exciting news for type 2 diabetes patients as well as the medical and public health professionals who are working to control this potentially deadly disease: a new study published in The Lancet suggests that using two common drugs for controlling diabetes […]
How to improve access to medicines — and how NOT to
With the UN General Assembly convening in New York to discuss all manner of policy issues, one high-profile area of debate is the appropriate role of governments and regulators in ensuring that as many people as possible have access to the medicines they need. […]
TES Weekly Update: Diabetes breakthrough promises healthier lives for millions
Editor’s Note: And undermining IP laws promises opposite Have you ever noticed that “fake news” almost always means bad news? Of course it’s taken for granted that “real news” usually means the same. Well, here’s that rarest of treasures, a piece of news that is both real and good, which frankly everyone should be […]
Yes, a financial transaction tax is an awful idea
A tax on financial transactions has long been a popular idea on the far left, with the latest proposal for a levy on transactions coming from UK’s Labour Party under the leadership of the unreconstructed Marxist Jeremy Corbyn. However the proposal is a spectacularly […]
Google investigations aim to protect free market, say state AGs
The investigation into Google’s competitive practices launched by the attorneys general of 48 states, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia isn’t a witch hunt or political maneuver, but a broad bipartisan effort to protect the free market and American consumers, according to Curtis […]