Category: Analysis

South Africa’s Political Future

For the first time since 1994, South Africa’s ANC does not have an absolute majority. What comes next will be an important test for the RSA.

Let Taiwan Join the OECD

China, which is a partner rather than an OECD member, has been allowed to block a wider role for Taiwan.

Euros & Dollars: Javier Milei’s War on Inflation

Euros & Dollars: Javier Milei’s War on Inflation

The president of Argentina wants to make it illegal to print money for budget deficits. Economic theory says he is right, but the politics of the welfare state may get in his way.

February 27, 2024
Spanish Government Mired in COVID Corruption Scandal

Spanish Government Mired in COVID Corruption Scandal

Repression and fear provided an opportunity for higher-ups in Spain’s Socialist Party to rob the taxpayer of his money as well as his freedom.

February 27, 2024
Targeting Conservative French Broadcaster CNews: A Pandora’s Box

Targeting Conservative French Broadcaster CNews: A Pandora’s Box

CNews dares to talk about security, immigration, borders, and justice while public TV carefully avoids these topics.

February 27, 2024
Euros & Dollars: Bullets and Benefits in Berlin’s Budget Battle

Euros & Dollars: Bullets and Benefits in Berlin’s Budget Battle

The unfolding ideological fight over Germany’s defense funding is a precursor to an American debate over the same issue.

February 23, 2024
Euros & Dollars: The European Left Is Economically Illiterate

Euros & Dollars: The European Left Is Economically Illiterate

The EU is in for a fiscal framework showdown between reformists and abolitionists. Who wins? Europe’s economic future hangs in the balance.

February 22, 2024
Macron’s Desperate Offensive Against the National Right

Macron’s Desperate Offensive Against the National Right

Obsessed with not appearing too far to the Right because of some of his reform ideas, the French president is pandering to the far Left by calling the Rassemblement National “outside the republican arc.”

February 21, 2024
Euros & Dollars: Can America Pay More for NATO?

Euros & Dollars: Can America Pay More for NATO?

If Congress decides to compensate NATO for insufficient European funding, they may have a run-in with the investors on the market for U.S. government debt.

February 21, 2024
Euros & Dollars: NATO and European Defense Funding

Euros & Dollars: NATO and European Defense Funding

NATO is a defense insurance program. What happens to your insurance policy when you don’t pay your monthly premium?

February 20, 2024
Russian Opposition Leader Alexei Navalny Dies in Detention

Russian Opposition Leader Alexei Navalny Dies in Detention

Whatever—or whoever—caused Navalny’s death, it is a clear signal to the world that Russia’s leader will not tolerate internal opposition.

February 17, 2024
France: How CNews Channel Became the <em>Bête Noire</em> of the French Thought Police

France: How CNews Channel Became the <em>Bête Noire</em> of the French Thought Police

The Left won’t forgive the media outlet for its decisive role in the development of Éric Zemmour’s political persona—and success.

February 17, 2024
Euros & Dollars: The Un-Economics of the Green Transition

Euros & Dollars: The Un-Economics of the Green Transition

With facts and logic speaking against the green transition, countries headed for an economic recession should urgently rethink their energy policies. 

February 16, 2024
Euros & Dollars: Trump, NATO, and Budget Deficits

Euros & Dollars: Trump, NATO, and Budget Deficits

Anyone proposing more U.S. defense spending with borrowed money should consider what happens when increasingly uneasy investors have had enough of U.S. debt.

February 15, 2024