By Chris Nagavonski, TES Contributor Many people think of poverty as just a lower average level of prosperity. To them, a poor neighborhood is still a row of houses or a block of apartments with people in them, albeit less fortunate people. But as Chris Rufo’s documentary America Lost shows, poverty doesn’t just stunt […]
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The real meaning of the UK-EU deal
“The Brexit trade deal is no frictionless uncoupling” By John Bruton, courtesy Centre for European Policy Studies The Trade and Cooperation Agreement between the EU and the UK is an exercise in damage limitation. The UK’s decision to leave the EU, the Customs Union and the Single Market, means it will face numerous obstacles. […]
Ecuador’s lessons in “dollarization”
“CEA Perspectives: Lessons from Dollarization in Ecuador” By Nicolás Cachanosky, courtesy of Libertad y Progreso UCEMA – The year 2020 marks the twentieth anniversary of dollarization in Ecuador. The year 2020 also marks 13 consecutive years of high inflation in Argentina. In the last 20 years, Ecuador and Argentina have followed different paths in […]
Leverage market forces to speed vaccine distribution
“Market Allocation Would Treat COVID-19 Vaccines Like the Valuable Resource They Are” By Michael F. Cannon, courtesy of the Cato Institute News reports indicate that COVID-19 vaccinations in the United States are happening more slowly than officials promised and in comparison to other countries. Some health care providers are racing — and some are failing — to administer their stock vaccines before […]
Docs urge early outpatient treatment for COVID-19
“Covid-19: A combination of early stage drugs works (hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin). New study” By FranceSoir The year 2020 will have been marked by a series of studies on treatments against COVID-19 and associated controversies. All will remember the declarations of the Minister of Health and the Prime Minister that ” there is no treatment against Covid-19 ” despite […]
Book Review: Ralph Benko’s The Ten Commandments of Capitalism
By Faruk Okcetin, TES Contributor Ralph Benko, the author of The Ten Commandments of Capitalism: The Secret Recipe for Equitable Prosperity, despite the title of his book does not pretend to be a divinely inspired prophet. Moses came down from Mount Sinai, locally called Jabal Musa, to provide humanity with the most basic principles of […]
The biggest blunder in the coronavirus crisis: nativism
By Rainer Zitelmann, TES Contributor In business administration, “best practice” refers to the method of learning from other businesses and industries and adopting exemplary methods, practices or procedures. Applied to the coronavirus pandemic, this would mean: let’s look around the world and see where the fight against the virus is most effective – and […]
China gained on America in 2020 and hopes to pass us by 2028
By Ernest Istook, Frontiers of Freedom China gained on the United States in 2020 and hopes to build on that momentum to gain more in 2021. Once China pursued a “Great Leap Forward.” Now they have three plans: military expansion, “Made in China 2025,” and their Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Each involves […]
As Brexit Looms, EU/UK Trade Issues Rise
By Andy Blom, TES Washington Editor After years of struggle and indecision, Brexit is happening, deal or no deal. In a rare instance of political backbone, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said Britain is leaving on January 1, regardless of the state of negotiations. We all should have figured that leaving a bureaucracy […]
EU Banks Need a Shakeup
Economic recovery after COVID-19 requires a clear vision for a healthy banking sector By Alexander Lehmann and Reiner Martin, courtesy of the Bruegel Institute The end of payment holidays and the winding-down of public support schemes in the post-COVID-19 recovery will expose large stocks of non-performing loans (NPLs). European Central Bank estimates, based on earlier […]