The Real Estate Market Boom is Expected to Remain Unbroken

EU’s “climate emergency” threatens rule of law

  “Goodbye freedom, democracy and the rule of law” By HSH Prince Michael of Liechtenstein, courtesy of ECAEF and GIS   By declaring a state of climate emergency, the European Parliament opened the door to excessive measures that could ultimately violate individual freedoms and erode democracy in the European Union. The climate debate has become […]

Future EU, global trade deals will be harder than Brexiters think

  “Britain has not yet faced its hard choices” By Daniel Wincott, courtesy of UK in a Changing Europe   ‘Global Britain’ is the ultimate goal for many Brexiters. They see new, tailored trade deals around the world as Brexit’s great prize. Fast-growing economies, including India, China and Brazil, feature prominently.   Critics counter that increasing […]

Visionary Milton Friedman and the Chinese Economy

  By Rainer Zitelmann     In October 1976 it was announced that the Nobel Prize in economics for that year would be awarded to the American economist Milton Friedman. Almost exactly a month before that announcement, Mao Zedong had passed away. Just four years after his death, Friedman visited China for the first time. […]