TAX & REGULATION
- Washington Behind The Headlines: New Trade Deals Will Bolster Strong U.S. Economy
By Andy Blom, TES Washington Editor
- “Large-scale” VAT fraud costs Europe 30B-60B euros per year
- Florida Bill Addresses “Sue and Settle” Bad Faith Claims
- Worker representation on corporate boards boosts investment
- France shows the results of 50 years of short-term politics, statism
- Ditching fuel subsidies cuts emissions without harming economy
TECH & INNOVATION
- The race for (even) better batteries
By Jen Maffessanti, Foundation for Economic Education
- Of GPS and Ghost Ships: A Cautionary Tale from the Internet of Things
- Amazon’s Ring Doorbell Camera Shouldn’t Be an End Run around the Constitution
- Why isn’t AI boosting productivity?
- A Very Wary Christmas: Don’t Take DNA Tests, Pentagon Warns Troops
- Drones are saving lives, but regulation might stop them
EU
- Anti-EU sentiment simmering in Central Europe
By Vit Havelka, EUROPEUM
- Franco-German relationship needs a reboot
- New finance rules: Too much information?
- Does Austrian Black-Green coalition point the way for Europe?
- Christine Lagarde at the ECB: chronicle of a failure foretold
- Bitte nicht! Germany still opposes banking union
UK & BREXIT
- Brexit is certain — but very little else
By Anthony Egan, Open Europe
- Canada should move swiftly on UK trade deal
- Does “Singapore on steroids” appeal to northern voters?
- Tory agenda is more statism, Queen’s Speech shows
- Socialism remains powerful force in UK
- UK election: after Conservative sweep, what’s next for Brexit and beyond?
LATIN AMERICA
- Beware AMLO’s authoritarian tendencies
By Roberto Salinas-Leon, Cato Institute
- Chile’s new constitution cannot be drafted under threat of violence
- Congestion costs Mexican cities 94 billion pesos a year
- “Escape the crisis by growing” is a myth
- Are Argentina’s problems really insoluble?
- It’s not too late for Argentina to reform
GEOPOLICY & RESOURCES
HEALTH
- Ich muss, selbst ohne meinen fuss: Germans go to work sick in “presentism” plague
IAB
- Rwanda’s lessons on gender equality, public health, and development
- Dump certificate-of-need laws to boost healthcare competition
- Lower Health Care Costs Act: Good Intentions, Bad Idea
- Canada’s healthcare system desperately needs private sector participation
- Price Controls Consistently Fail Consumers: Why does Congress keep hoping that next time they will work?
- Quebecers receptive to competition in healthcare
ENVIRONMENT & SOCIETY
- Don’t loosen bank rules for Green New Deal
By Alexander Lehmann, Bruegel Institute
- EU’s “climate emergency” threatens rule of law
- Picking Losers: Green energy subsidies are a chronicle of failure
- Market Environmentalism Is No Oxymoron
- Automation undermines men’s marriage prospects
- The European Green Deal Is Every Bit as Bad as Expected
TRADE
- Don’t buy the Treasury’s Chinese currency hype – then or now
By Daniel Griswold, Mercatus Center
- Around half a million German jobs depend on exports to UK
- No, the WTO isn’t dead, but it is on life support – and it could die this year
- Big players will be sorry they let WTO lapse
- Can Europe use trade to enforce Green Deal globally?
- The most unhelpful Brexit idea so far: UK-EU tariffs
FARM TO FUTURE
- Where’s The Beef?
By Christian Hald-Mortensen, Ministry of Environment and Food of Denmark
- Agricultural labor law’s “touchback” provisions make absolutely no sense
- UK plan to ban energy drinks for teens irrational, unfair
- Yummy: Thanksgiving dinner costs less than ever
- No more meat-homogenous mass: the quest for fake meat that looks real
- China cracks down on illegal vaccines in swine fever disaster