
Euros & Dollars: U.S. Borrows $1 Trillion in Six Months
In 2023, the federal government borrowed $2.5 trillion. So far this year, things are only getting worse.

In 2023, the federal government borrowed $2.5 trillion. So far this year, things are only getting worse.

“LGBTQI” Spaniards are now being invited to register for priority status within the government’s job placement scheme.

Ideological inconsistency and obsession with respectability have prevented follow-through on conservative convictions.

Legal experts mostly agree that the law is unconstitutional, and opposition leader Feijóo has stated he would repeal it once in power.

The national French statistics office has released new numbers on government debt. Everybody debates those numbers, but has anyone actually read them?

A combination of ominous economic forces beyond the control of the government will make minced meat of Sweden’s euro-skeptic holdouts.

The U.S. Congress has ignored the budget deficit for decades. Debt investors have almost run out of patience. Will Congress address the problem—or continue to play for time?

Donald Tusk has accused the National Bank of Poland of manipulating interest rates to help his predecessor win last year’s election. Here is ample proof that Tusk has no case.

The prospect for lower interest rates in Europe is fading, but the reason has nothing to do with the European economy. The reason is found on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.

Economists have failed to explain Europe’s economic stagnation. Here is an explanation they have not considered.
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.
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.