TAX & REGULATION
- UK council finances are unsustainable, new model urgently needed
By Harry Fone, Taxpayers' Alliance
- The debate over industrial policy ended… 35 years ago
- WEEKLY UPDATE: City air makes men free… so why not make new cities?
- Time for a new generation of cities?
- Why a wealth tax would fall flat in the U.S., as elsewhere
- UK working class voters want real tax relief
TECH
- Will Blockchain Undermine Central Bank Control – Or Amplify It?
By Erik Sass, TES Editor-in-Chief
- The digital revolution is losing steam
- How I learned to stop worrying and love AI
- Kremlins Out of the System: Russia will turn off outside Internet, turn it back on
- Tesla fortunes turn – but will it last?
- Make way for the delivery drones (by empowering local government)
EU
- Don’t let regulations cancel advantages of bank integration
By Alexander Lehmann, Bruegel Institute
- EU transfers fuel corruption, white collar crime
- “This is a mess”: QE isn’t working – and neither is government
- EU and India’s strategic partnership: hot topic or hot air?
- Organized crime is Europe-wide (and no, it’s not just from you know where)
- Future EU, global trade deals will be harder than Brexiters think
- Spain will reach 1-to-1 dependency ratio by 2050
UK & BREXIT
- Pro- and anti-Brexit electoral alliances start to take shape
By Stephen Booth and Anthony Egan, Open Europe
- UK foreign aid exports nanny state around the world
- “Brexit is not going to be the only game in town”
- UK can’t afford to live in fiscal fantasy land
- “Both parties have abandoned fiscal restraint”
- UK politics is already transformed
- Election is all about — wait for it — Brexit
LATIN AMERICA
- Chile’s constitutional reform is on the right track (so far)
Libertad y Progreso
- China Loses, Mexico Wins? Not So Fast!
- Don’t let protests obscure Chile’s triumph
- Argentina’s bankruptcy assured, could default to IMF
- Argentina’s New Look: Get ready for a haircut, bondholders
- Pay-for-performance didn’t help student achievement in Peru (but it could)
GEOPOLICY & RESOURCES
- V4 countries diverge on European defense initiatives, but still have a lot to offer
By Gergely Varga, Europeum
- “A European pillar in NATO is overdue”
- 30 Years After the Fall
- China elbowing Europe aside in Russian market
- Without reform the EU will self-destruct
- Can the transatlantic relationship survive the age of Realpolitik?
HEALTH
- Government Tries to Regulate Drug Prices by Violating the First Amendment
By Ilya Shapiro and Dennis Garcia, Cato Institute
- Traffic pollution affects academic performance
- Legalize It: CDC vaping findings support ending pot prohibition
- Importing Bad Ideas: Let’s Not
- Drug reference pricing threatens patient health, innovation
- Entrepreneurship helped improve senior care, reduced costs in Canada
ENVIRONMENT
- Bank of England tackles climate change with protective mountain of paper
By Gordon Kerr, Cavin O'Driscoll, and Enrico Colombatto, IREF
- Reduce emissions from urban cargo by coordinating shared transport
- How to make the European Green New Deal work
- Zero carbon rule would just make UK housing (even more) unaffordable
- UK needs levee en masse to fight invasive species
- Offshore wind power could meet all global electricity demand
TRADE
- Canada passed a free trade deal with itself – and it’s still not enough
MEI
- Brexit uncertainty cost UK new Tesla gigafactory
- It’s not just USMCA: Canada needs to tackle internal trade barriers, too
- High tariffs benefit a few high flyers – and that’s it
- New Protectionism: Still Protectionism and Bad Economics
- Post-election U.S.-UK trade deal?
- How should small countries navigate a “tripolar” world?
- Trade uncertainty slowing global economy
FARM TO FUTURE
- Why does Switzerland have sugar subsidies? Why does anyone?
By Patrick Dümmler, Avenir Suisse
- And who shall watch the sheep? No one, apparently
- China’s pig population will take five years to recover
- New bill would legalize agricultural labor (but E-Verify is still a disaster)
- Blocking GM crops has killed, blinded millions of children
- Pot earnings disappoint, but growers and execs remain, like, unfazed