Category: Analysis

Inflation Comeback: A Challenge for the ECB

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.

The EU Taxman Cometh

The EU wants to levy its own taxes. Here is why that is a bad idea.

A Red Flag for the EU Economy!

It is time for Europe’s lawmakers to act to save their economy from a long, cold, tough winter.

The New American Consumer

New numbers on U.S. private consumption reveal a tectonic lifestyle shift, one that is likely going to continue in coming years.

Learn To Love the High Interest Rates

Learn To Love the High Interest Rates

Either we live with high-interest rates today, or we put our very prosperity in stagflation-driven jeopardy.

February 14, 2023
How An Inverted Yield Curve Is Good News

How An Inverted Yield Curve Is Good News

When you get less money on long-term investments than on short-term ones, it is good news for the economy.

February 4, 2023
Swiss Lawmakers Rethink Neutrality To Supply Arms to Ukraine

Swiss Lawmakers Rethink Neutrality To Supply Arms to Ukraine

Circumventing neutrality embedded in the Swiss Constitution is a tough challenge for lawmakers in Bern, as Ukraine calls for immediate change in legislation.

February 3, 2023
French Army at a Turning Point

French Army at a Turning Point

The French president proposes a change in France’s military paradigm, in preparation for long-lasting attacks requiring a greater availability of equipment and larger stocks of ammunition.

January 31, 2023
Greater Trade With Southeast Asia as an Alternative to Russia and China

Greater Trade With Southeast Asia as an Alternative to Russia and China

The West should attempt to compensate for any trade destruction, justified on the basis of geo-security, by opening up trade with parts of the world that are broadly friendly with the West. Southeast Asia is most certainly such a region.

January 31, 2023
Reversing Hungary’s High Inflation

Reversing Hungary’s High Inflation

Hungary is one of Europe’s major economic success stories. Bringing the current inflation episode to an end would only reinforce the country’s position as a role model for the rest of Europe.

January 27, 2023
A Lawmaker’s Guide to the Next Fiscal Crisis

A Lawmaker’s Guide to the Next Fiscal Crisis

Every government with debt on hand, and especially those with debt levels that are already unsustainable, must get to work on a contingency plan for the coming recession.

January 20, 2023
How Globalism Digests Nations: Deindustrialization and the International Division of Labour

How Globalism Digests Nations: Deindustrialization and the International Division of Labour

Globalism requires that societies accept their place in a global division of labour, and the principal political agent facilitating this is the anti-worker, pro-woke Left, with a complicit centre-Right as rearguard.

January 18, 2023
Return of the Gold Standard?

Return of the Gold Standard?

Any move in the gold-standard direction must be guided by pragmatism, not dogmatism.

January 17, 2023
Pension Reform: A French Penelope’s Tapestry

Pension Reform: A French Penelope’s Tapestry

There is one major omission from all the discussions on pension reform: the question of the birth rate and its corollary, family policy.

January 16, 2023
Crisis in Peru

Crisis in Peru

The new government has declared a state of emergency in the face of ongoing protests in favor of the deposed president, leaving at least three dozen people dead.

January 16, 2023
Progressivism at the Opera: Enough is Enough

Progressivism at the Opera: Enough is Enough

Alagna, Kurzak, Tézier, Kaufmann: Does the healthy reaction of these artists herald a new era, when opera will cease to be a place of propaganda, political activism, and wokeism?

January 12, 2023