“Argentina – ninth national bankruptcy is imminent” By Angelica Dominguez-Cardoza and Cristoph Trebesch, courtesy of IfW Kiel As Argentina’s elections were set to begin Sunday, the state is headed for yet another bankruptcy. The government has borrowed nearly $45 billion overseas in just two years. The country’s debt ratio has nearly doubled since 2015 to […]
Unlike the United States, which saw a sharp increase in preventable deaths among working-age people over the last two decades, the rate of mortality from “deaths of despair” (including suicide, alcoholism, drug overdoses, and so on) has declined sharply in Germany, according to the DIW Berlin. Read about it here.
Simmer down kids! “Pool rules,” as some readers may remember from the halcyon summer days of childhood, are the basic safety protocols everyone has to follow in order to allow everyone to enjoy the pool: no running, no diving, and especially no horseplay. As governments around the world clamp down on tax avoidance […]
