“A response to the Chancellor’s new package of support” By Carl Emmerson, Tom Waters and Xiaowei Xu, courtesy of the Institute of Fiscal Studies The Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, has today announced a substantial package of support that will incentivise employers to keep hold of their employees over the next few months […]
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Washington Beyond the Headlines: Behold, DOL, DOT Doing Their Jobs
By Andy Blom, TES Correspondent Congress fights the Coronavirus the only way it knows how — with panic and partisan bickering. Many Americans are just treating it like a snow day. Meanwhile free market policy people, now even more socially isolated than usual, are still working on issues and ideas that affect […]
Cut hidden fuel subsidies to fight climate change
“The European Green Deal must cut hidden fossil fuel subsidies” By Simone Tagliapietra, courtesy of the Bruegel Institute One of the basic ideas in economics is that you tend to get the best results if people or firms that take decisions have to take account of all the benefits and costs. Climate change […]
Reject a government takeover of consumer lending
By Phil Kerpen, courtesy of American Commitment Price controls don’t work, cause shortages, and have precipitated economic disaster in every sector and jurisdiction that has attempted to impose them on any significant scale. But their braindead simplicity – something is too expensive, so we’ll mandate that it be cheaper – makes them forever […]
Celebrating the Return of the Primitive
By Kerry Jackson, Pacific Research Institute Private automobiles are no longer allowed on Market Street in San Francisco, California. The result has been an increase in bike ridership. This is, of course, being hailed as progress. So why does it look like the city is resetting the clock to a previous century? […]
Will Paraguay Follow Argentina’s Economic Decline?
By Marcelo Duclos, courtesy of Panampost Although there was a moment in history when there was talk of the “Argentine miracle” (after the Constitution of Juan Bautista Alberdi) or the “German miracle,” after World War II (in one part, of course), I think we should mention another contemporary miracle: the Paraguayan one. It […]
Roche Head of Early Clinical Oncology: Globalizing the AI Revolution in Health Care
By Dominik Ruettinger, Global Head of Early Clinical Development Oncology, Roche MUNICH – We are entering a transformational period in medical science, as traditional research techniques combine with massive computing power and a wealth of new data. Just recently, Google announced that it has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) system capable of outperforming human […]
Europeans take the Euro for granted
By Joris Melman and Giuseppe Porcaro, courtesy of the Bruegel Institute How can we understand citizens’ attitudes towards the euro and its politics? A previous research project studied narratives of the euro crisis and explored the blame game that marked these years. The study found part of the answer to why it has been so hard […]
Washington Beyond the Headlines: Index Capital Gains to Inflation to Keep Economy Humming
By Andy Blom, TES Washington Editor The Democratic primary gets nastier, coronavirus panics the markets and Congress responds with partisan bickering…. Ho hum, another week of business as usual…except for free market policy people who are busy working on issues and ideas that affect America, and the world. Read on for this week’s […]
Will Canada follow California’s war on the gig economy?
“The Sharing Economy: Destroying Jobs Won’t Help Low-Income Workers” By Peter St. Onge and Daniel Dufort, courtesy of the Montreal Economic Institute Will Canada import California’s job-killing experiment and risk putting freelance work out of the reach of Canadians who need it? A case currently under consideration before the Supreme Court, Uber v. Heller,(1) […]