The doom-and-gloom pundits are wrong. The U.S. economy is in good shape, but there are three dark clouds lurking on the horizon.
Europe’s banks are in credit-crunch mode. The ECB’s decision to keep interest rates unchanged is meant to help, but it also raises the white flag on inflation.
A year from the 2024 election, commentators battle each other over the state of the U.S. economy. We go beyond the punditry. We have the facts.
There is little to celebrate for the Tory leader.
More than three decades after the end of the communist GDR, the successor to the former state party is being ripped apart by internal divisions.
The proposed EU corporate profits tax will either become a power tool against recalcitrant member states or the most unpredictable cost item in any corporation’s finances.
Europe will be facing a recession. The question is whether or not rising unemployment will come with higher or lower inflation rates—and monetary conservatism or monetary expansion.
At home, Biden is unpopular, assailed by legal difficulties, and widely regarded as too physically and mentally incompetent to do his job.
Reactions to the Hamas massacre show that we too have to fight for our democratic civilisation
The EU wants to levy its own taxes. Here is why that is a bad idea.
Prize laureate Claudia Goldin’s economic research claims that women can be liberated with a birth-control pill.
There is a passivity about poll-watching, as if we were ancients reading the runes or chicken entrails in a bid to foretell a future that is beyond our control.
It is time for Europe’s lawmakers to act to save their economy from a long, cold, tough winter.
New numbers on U.S. private consumption reveal a tectonic lifestyle shift, one that is likely going to continue in coming years.
The cardinals asked the Pope to clarify key doctrinal controversies. Instead, the confusion is now even worse.
The fight is about defending the fundamental principle of respect for the educational choices of parents, who must remain the primary educators of their children.
Conservatism should emphasize the compatibility of valuing social cohesion at home over perverse incentives to allow mass immigration.
The U.S. debt keeps growing, and nobody seems to want to stop its growth. But what does the debt actually look like? Who owns it, and what are its components?
Building a coalition will be extremely difficult, as a possible ten or eleven parties could enter parliament.
The twin villains of high inflation and high unemployment have not left Europe. They are just taking a nap under a pile of moderately optimistic economic data.
The Republican newcomer brings better policies to the table than his opponents, but often reduces the issues of cultural disintegration and national renewal to just GDP growth.
The Swedish government’s budget is thoughtful, intelligent, and well balanced. Let’s see if it also can deliver as promised.
In the world of public finance, we call this ‘rocketing your country into a fiscal crisis.’
The concept of exploitation is deployed by socialists in the public discourse to force conservatives into renouncing capitalism altogether.
Biden’s immigration policy and his bad fiscal management could create a depression worse than the 1930s.
What the European Commission proposes is not rules-based trade but managed trade, with Commission technocrats pulling the strings to favour EU industrialization.
U.S. unemployment is rising, but this does not mean a recession is coming. Immigration is causing a recession mirage.
As the Romanian nationalist party looks for a home in Brussels’ conservative bloc after the 2024 EP elections, there are things prospective partners should consider, as not all that glitters is ‘gold.’
The German government want to deregulate to boost business. Let’s hope they do it right!
Senator Bernie Sanders, a devout socialist, wants the Democrat party to make a left turn in the next election. Do the Republicans have what it takes to oppose them?
