Author: TES Staff

Happy thoughts!  A majority of German financial professionals expect the UK to crash out of the EU without a withdrawal agreement, with a major chance of serious disturbances to international financial markets, according to...

  While economic sanctions have traditionally targeted entire countries, Clara Portela of the Center for European Policy Studies notes the rise of “horizontal sanctions,” which can target individuals and...

European importers currently pay for oil in dollars, but energy trading in more than one currency used to be commonplace, according to Bruegel’s Elina Ribakova. She argues that a return to the days of multiple trading...

Well-intentioned efforts to export European-style laws, regulations, and standards covering things like labor and product safety to developing countries risks backlash and unintended consequences, Avenir Suisse warns in a new...

Contrary to assertions by populists of both left and right that the rich are under-taxed, the Austrian Economics Center finds that they pay a disproportion share of taxes based on national income.  If anything, they are...