Trade deals – a global issue
byThe annual Conservative Party conference commenced last Sunday, and the media focus was mostly about the Government’s stance on Brexit. This is hardly surprising,…
Free trade
China: something must burst
by“I know from a common sense financial standpoint that something has to burst. When a country is losing billions and billions and billions of…
Clinton And Trump Embody Plunder And Paternalism
byOPINION – Whether it is Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump who stands on the steps of the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C in January…
Benn Steil: What If Japan Becomes Treasury’s First Currency ‘Manipulator’ in 22 Years?
byIn May, Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso and colleagues warned of their willingness to intervene in currency markets to counteract upward pressure on the…
A Plan to Engender Prosperity in Perfidious Albion – from Pariah to Paragon
by“The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.” “When goods do not cross borders,…
The Keys to Human Prosperity: Individual Liberty and Rule of Law
byWe live at time when, increasingly, the U.S. government operates in arbitrary and discretionary ways. Government regulatory agencies seemingly have unrestrained powers over land-use,…
T-TIP: Salvation or trash-tip?
byPresident Obama weighed into the Brexit debate on his recent visit to the UK, saying that if Britain left the EU, she would be…
Benn Steil: The Trump-Sanders China Syndrome
byPresidential candidates Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders, with a phalanx of lawmakers behind them, continue to bash China as a “currency manipulator.” Both men…
Venezuela’s Bizarre System of Exchange Rates
byBy Emiliana Disilvestro and David Howden Venezuela is currently going through its worst crisis in history, replete with an endless list of interesting problems….
What’s right with the Trans-Pacific Partnership?
byThe TPP may boost real-incomes by $285bln by 2025 US Congress should approve the TPP to avoid international political embarrassment The TPP may be…