“U.S. Ferry Systems Soaked by Maritime Protectionism” By Colin Grabow, courtesy of the Cato Institute Some of the country’s leading ferry systems are facing an increasingly precarious outlook. In Alaska, questions loom over the state‐run ferry system’s future after the governor and legislature last year endorsed paring back massive subsidies needed to keep it afloat. In Washington state, […]
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Beware AMLO’s authoritarian tendencies
“AMLO and the “Fourth Transformation” in Mexico” By Roberto Salinas-León, courtesy of the Cato Institute According to Enrique Krauze, Mexico’s prominent classical‐liberal intellectual, new “winds of authoritarianism” are sweeping across Latin America, characterized by all‐mighty caudillos who ascend to political power via democratic means, but who then seek to concentrate control over a tightly knit polity […]
To fight entrenched poverty, Egypt MUST reform
“Why Egypt is not on a path to end its long struggle with poverty” By Mahmoud Farouk, courtesy of Atlas Network In 1979, Fouad Ajami wrote that Egypt finds herself between her “pride and place, between her limited material resources and her unbounded psychological esteem for herself, between her old glory and her current poverty.” […]
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 […]