BY ALEX STORY The promise of the European Union, tacit or explicit in every treaty, was a future land of Common Agricultural Policy-funded milk and honey. It would deliver, you see, employment, stability and growth. Let us then take stock. In a quarter of a century, unemployment rates across the beleaguered Union have regularly been twice that of the United States. Over that long period, … Continue reading A Continent on Puberty Blockers
BY STEWART SLATER It is a strange phenomenon in humanity that the same idea will often occur to different people at roughly the same time. Newton and Leibnitz invented calculus almost simultaneously. And spent decades arguing over who did so first. Similarly, the late 2000’s were a (actually, the) Golden Age of animated films about penguins. Film pairs follow the iron law of Highlander and … Continue reading The Meaning of Munich
BY ALEX STORY Old Europe and the Americas are set on very different paths. Germany, France and the United Kingdom are visibly stuck. El Salvador, Argentina and the United States, on the other hand, are not. Politically, Germany and France have become difficult places to govern, to say the least. The fragile German three-party coalition government collapsed in November 2024 over the beleaguered country’s economic … Continue reading The Great Bifurcation
BY JOHN DREWRY Donald Trump has apparently expressed the thought that maybe Federal taxation is unnecessary altogether, and the economist Martin Armstrong agrees with him. It’s not such a crazy idea, and I’ve had a version of this in my mind for some years. Here’s mine for the UK. Replace all taxes with an automatic licence fee for using the King’s currency “You don’t understand, … Continue reading A Licence Fee Worth Paying
Will Joe Biden make America great again? President-elect, Joe Biden, has his work cut off for him like many previous presidents of the greatest country in the world before him. What makes his tenure distinct is the fact of a pandemic that has ravaged through the country, killed hundreds of thousands of Americans, and has in equal measure, left many Americans poorer and unemployed. This … Continue reading Biden or Bite Them?
