Don’t Look Back In Danger: AEC Looks Backwards and Forwards

Fatty liver disease, the next public health crisis?

                    Just in case we don’t have enough public health crises threatening to push national healthcare systems to their breaking points, here’s another chronic, non-communicable epidemic to obsess about: fatty liver disease (FLD). The specter of FLD unrelated to alcoholism (historically the main cause of the […]

Limits on Pension Investments Hurt Returns

  By Ian Madsen, courtesy of Frontier Centre for Public Policy   Recently, members of ‘Extinction Rebellion’, a climate change activist group, sat in protest at the University of British Columbia, beginning a hunger strike on January 6th, trying to stop UBC’s pension fund from making or holding any investments in fossil-fuel-related companies.  Sadly, the […]

Brazil can be an economic powerhouse with sensible domestic, trade reforms

  “How Brazil Can Become An Economic Powerhouse” By Lorenzo Montanari, ATR, courtesy of Libertad y Progreso   In only one year Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro has been able to revert 13 years of socialist policies which were implemented by the previous leftist presidents Lula and Dilma. His accomplishments include passing important free-market reforms such […]