Category: Analysis

The U.S. Debt by the Numbers

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?

Stagflation Still a Threat to Europe

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.

Ramaswamy and the Question of National Renewal

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.

New Budget, New Spring for Sweden

The Swedish government’s budget is thoughtful, intelligent, and well balanced. Let’s see if it also can deliver as promised.

The Myth of Capitalist Exploitation

The concept of exploitation is deployed by socialists in the public discourse to force conservatives into renouncing capitalism altogether.

The EU’s New Economic Security 

What the European Commission proposes is not rules-based trade but managed trade, with Commission technocrats pulling the strings to favour EU industrialization.

Analysts Agree: EU Facing Recession

Analysts Agree: EU Facing Recession

Given the high level of economic integration in Europe, it is unlikely that a recession will be confined to half the continent.

January 7, 2023
Bakhmut’s Bloodbath: This Is Why the Russians and the Ukrainians Are Killing Each Other

Bakhmut’s Bloodbath: This Is Why the Russians and the Ukrainians Are Killing Each Other

Fighting has been going on since May in the area mainly besieged by the mercenaries of Russia’s Wagner Group, and both sides attach more importance to the area than its real military value.

January 6, 2023
The Failed American Welfare State

The Failed American Welfare State

The long list of social benefits in the U.S. operate on a socialist ideological basis: they elevate the standard of living of the gainfully employed with lower incomes and have higher-income citizens pay for it.

January 1, 2023
Sweden: An Economic Obituary

Sweden: An Economic Obituary

Sweden has failed to focus fiscal policy on economic growth. Employment is now falling, and there is a debt bomb about to explode in the economy.

December 27, 2022
Libertarianism: A Dead End

Libertarianism: A Dead End

Despite clear and unwavering opposition to socialism, the conservative movement remains reluctant to dip its toes into the debate over the welfare state, the foremost vehicle for socialist policies in democratic countries.

December 26, 2022
Light in the Darkness: How Ukraine’s Transcarpathia Survives the War

Light in the Darkness: How Ukraine’s Transcarpathia Survives the War

Heating, lighting, and electricity come and go in Transcarpathia, plunged into uncertainty and darkness as a result of the war in Ukraine. However, the Ukrainian community that lives on the other side of the Hungarian border struggles to live on.

December 20, 2022
Hungary: An Economic Assessment

Hungary: An Economic Assessment

The best way to understand the thought leadership behind Hungary’s economic success is to examine the 2016 tax reform, which created perhaps the simplest and most ingenious small-business tax in the world.

December 17, 2022
How the European Union Wants To Encourage Surrogacy

How the European Union Wants To Encourage Surrogacy

The ethical struggle is clouded by an institutional issue: according to the treaty on the functioning of the European Union, measures concerning the family are not the responsibility of Europe. Each state is supposed to decide sovereignly in this matter.

December 17, 2022
The Failure of Spanish Democracy

The Failure of Spanish Democracy

A year out from a general election in Spain and the political vitriol is running high.

Health Funding: A Lesson for the Next Pandemic

Health Funding: A Lesson for the Next Pandemic

Health care systems with a high degree of government funding were ill-prepared for the pandemic; systems with a higher degree of private and semi-private funding had a much better capacity to respond.

December 6, 2022
Is A Recession Really Coming?

Is A Recession Really Coming?

Although some countries have recovered, overall economic activity has been disappointing. To make matters worse, a closer look at capital formation—a.k.a., business investments—and consumer spending suggest that a recession is in fact just around the corner.

December 5, 2022
The Creeping Radicalization of ‘Climate Activism’

The Creeping Radicalization of ‘Climate Activism’

Greenpeace openly supports the ‘climate actions,’ pays the lawyers’ bills, and provides space, materials, and know-how. Direct funding comes from the US-based Climate Emergency Fund (CEF), which has already spent $5 million this year.

November 29, 2022