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 […]
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The EU-Mercosur Trade Deal and the Lunacy of Protectionism
By Federico N. Fernández, President of Fundación Internacional Bases, Senior Fellow with the Austrian Economics Center and TES Contributor The European Union (EU) and Mercosur signed a historical trade deal last Friday. The adjective historical is sometimes misused. However, in this case it is most pertinent. Indeed, the agreement […]
Venezuela vs. Chile: Socialism In a Nutshell
While Venezuela’s agony is all the evidence we should ever need of socialism’s disastrous outcomes, an even more crushing indictment lies in the stark contrast between Venezuela and Chile, which has embraced broadly market-friendly policies over the last few decades. In their essay in CapX Marian Tupy and Alexander Hammond highlight the vast […]