Euros & Dollars: A Hard Look at the Economy in 2024
Next year is shaping up to be tough, both for the euro zone and European countries outside of it. How bad will the recession be? Our forecast goes beyond conventional economic wisdom to find out.
Next year is shaping up to be tough, both for the euro zone and European countries outside of it. How bad will the recession be? Our forecast goes beyond conventional economic wisdom to find out.
The U.S. Congress must make a choice—and make it now. Do they want to play fiscal defense and let the debt grow? Or do they want to play fiscal offense and solve the problem for good?
What can the past 20 years tell us about Europe’s economic future?
The growth in debt will only stop when the U.S. government is struck by a real fiscal crisis. Nothing else will work.
We must refute the myth that Muslim-occupied medieval Spain was a bastion of peace and multiculturalism.
Violence and death threats against teachers refute the myth of schools as sanctuaries.
Past Swedish governments have had a penchant for driving up inflation with tax hikes; will Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson’s government make better policy decisions?
European central banks agree that inflation may bump up again in 2024. But their explanations for this are oddly incongruent. What is really going on here?
What does BlackRock CEO’s weariness regarding the ESG label signal for the nexus of global finance and political elites?
The drastic devaluation of the peso marks the beginning of President Milei’s crusade against inflation in Argentina. But he needs more than that to succeed.
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.