“Let’s dismantle our anti-economic taxation before it finishes our economy” By Nicolas Marques, courtesy of Institut économique Molinari The future is particularly worrying for French society. Companies, suffocated by extraordinary taxation and finicky regulations, have structural competitiveness problems. The previous crises have left their mark, with abnormally high unemployment. The coronavirus strikes a weak economy. In the first […]
Tag: foreign trade
Germany exports to UK declined after 2016
“German Exports to the UK: declining since the Brexit referendum in 2016” IAB The rules defining trade between Germany and the United Kingdom (UK) have not changed despite Brexit. Nevertheless, there is a clear downward trend in German exports of goods to the UK since the referendum in June 2016. The strongest reductions are […]
Urgent reforms needed to help Argentine entrepreneurs succeed
Courtesy of Libertad y Progreso The reality of Argentine entrepreneurs is arduous. With growing inflation, the highest taxes in the world, Kafkaesque regulations, and overflowing labor costs, it is not surprising that in Argentina only 15% of the economically active population owns a business […]
Ex-Im “Reform” Documents Look Like More of the Same Crony Capitalism
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 […]
From Trade War to Tech War: Will the ‘Interim U.S.-China Trade Deal’ Contain a Ticking Tech Time Bomb?
By Daniel McGroarty, TES GeoPolicy Editor “There is also something fundamentally wrong with the interim deal… That arrangement boosts America’s sale of primary products, a badge of a basic economy, at the cost of ceding high-tech leadership.” That’s the closing note in […]