By Andy Blom, TES Washington Editor July 4 may be past, but it’s always a good time to celebrate Freedom and Liberty. Fortunately Free Market people are always working to help secure these precious possessions with better perspective and policy options. So for Liberty, here’s this week’s news … Freeing Us […]
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Washington Beyond the Headlines: Tax Cuts at Stake In November
By Andy Blom, TES Washington Editor Wow! Busy week. Some states are opening, some states are dragging their feet, the stock market is climbing, employment is rocketing back up but people are still social distancing unless they’re protesting. And, in the true American spirit, some people just have never stopped working through it all, […]
Who will steer Brexit in months to come?
“Post-Brexit: who are the new thinkers that will reshape Britain” By Jack Powell, courtesy of the Austrian Economics Center Many in the anti-Brexit lobby are still trying to portray the vote to leave the European Union as the project of a very small number of Westminster elites. Carole Cadwalladr and her band of […]
It’s not just USMCA: Canada needs to tackle internal trade barriers, too
“Provincial Trade Barriers Shoot Canadians in the Foot” By Fergus Hodgson, courtesy Frontier Centre If there is one finding of near unanimous consensus among economists, it is that free trade increases productivity and boosts growth. The flip side is that tariffs, quotas, and other trade barriers generally reduce welfare. By how much? […]