The America Report: Mental Health, Elections, and Debt
While Americans are worried about mental health, election fraud, and government debt, Europeans think that the most important things in America are abortion pills and ice hockey.
While Americans are worried about mental health, election fraud, and government debt, Europeans think that the most important things in America are abortion pills and ice hockey.
A sensational statement by the Federal Reserve reveals how we are setting ourselves up for another destructive inflation episode.
In three simple steps, Europe’s lawmakers can save the continent from stagflation and economic misery.
Backtracking on his earlier statements, Japan’s celebrity academic argued that terms like “mass suicide” and “mass seppuku” were intended as “abstract metaphors.”
When you get less money on long-term investments than on short-term ones, it is good news for the economy.
One thing that was painfully missing was the kind of ‘common good conservatism’ that takes seriously the public nature of the moral law, which may have helped to bring to the conversation about race some lasting solutions.
Croatia’s Prime Minister Andrej Plenković tweeted that through Croatia’s accession to the euro zone, its citizens “will be better protected against crises.”
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.
With its recent ruling, the GCC enters the second decade of ambiguous jurisprudence over the constitutionality of EU rescue programmes.
Member states have been deeply divided on the best way to handle the energy crisis, and the meeting kept all options on the table, with Germany finally giving in to the possibility of price caps.
I would argue that we are more convincing conservatives than the Conservative Party, who haven’t conserved anything. Their record is abysmal.
Now that the Greek Parliament is eager to beef up the nation’s defense, it faces a serious problem: the economy is so weak it can barely keep its population at a standard of living from 20 years ago.
While Finland has already declared that it is not pursuing a NATO membership, Sweden still remains open to the idea. So long as the possibility remains open in the current international political climate, it undeservedly transplants the Ukrainian struggle for independence onto the Nordic scene.
The euro itself is only part of the failure. An entire structure of government institutions, laws, and even constitutional provisions were erected around it in order to secure its success. It all looked impressive two decades ago; today, the structure itself, from the European Central Bank (ECB), to the so-called Stability and Growth Pact, is a package of sordid evidence that even under democratic governments, central economic planning is a bad idea.
The common currency was a gigantic economic experiment, an application of political preferences rather than the product of sound scholarly research. As is always the case with grand government plans, for every problem they solve a new one is created.
Spanish political life will polarize around those offering policies that have straightforwardly led to present difficulties, and those whose program has promised to drastically reduce a state whose regional level is notoriously hypertrophic and reindustrializing the country. VOX is the most obviously poised to take advantage of this.
President Macron wants the EU to reform budget rules to increase public-sector investments, which, he hopes, would lead to stronger economic growth and higher levels of employment. Macron’s vision is understandable, but his reforms are likely to defeat their own purpose.
While the ideological divisions between Swedish political parties are centered around immigration, they reflect a deeper, more principled disagreement between the political mainstream and a resurgent conservative movement.
The issue here is not Eastern Europe vs. Western Europe, or even traditionalist Europe versus progressive Europe. The issue is preserving real cultural diversity within a European Union.
Not all the ideas that public intellectuals have are valuable. Far from it. For ideas to have value they must be based upon and capable of being tested by experience. Too often, they are not.
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