Courtesy of Civismo Spain is the country in which small businesses must spend the most hours dealing with bureaucracy. This is the takeaway from a new international comparison, Bureaucracy Index 2019, for which several European think tanks, including Civismo, calculated […]
“A Few Things to Like About the U.S.-China Trade Deal” By Daniel J. Ikenson, courtesy of Cato Institute More clarity and more questions emerged over the weekend about the terms of the U.S.-China trade deal, which warrants an update to this preliminary assessment published on Friday. The deal is pretty good for what is […]
In Foreign Policy, veteran science writer Laurie Garrett presents a devastating picture of the potential impact of China’s swine fever epidemic. Garrett connects the dots from dying pigs to President Donald Trump’s trade war with China, arguing that escalating tariffs are poised to combine with the spreading virus to wreak havoc on markets for pork, […]