EU and UK must push to get a Brexit deal over the line
As so often with Brexit negotiations, the two sides take one step forward and then take another back — as was demonstrated this week...
Slavery: The “Broken Window” of American Economic History | Lipton Matthews
The New Historians of Capitalism have unleashed a renaissance in the study of slavery as foundational to American progress. Unlike conservative economists who declaim...
The Great Walter Williams, Radical Troublemaker – Marginal REVOLUTION
Our colleague, the great Walter Williams, died on Tuesday shortly after teaching his last class–which is exactly how he would have wanted to go....
Brussels’ subtle role reining in Huawei
FT premium subscribers can click here to receive Trade Secrets by email.Hello from Brussels, where everyone’s supposed to be contemplating a reset of relations...
Ho hum now I am definitely up to five percent – Marginal REVOLUTION
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The pandemic bankruptcy wave has been delayed, not avoided
In a short Twitter thread last month, Olivier Blanchard, former chief economist of the IMF and past president of the American Economic Association, reassessed...
Privacy, Power, Fiscal Policy, the Poor: Four Reasons to Worry about CBDCs | Wolf...
Contact Wolf von LaerWolf von Laer studies Austrian economics at Rey Juan Carlos University in Spain....
Canada gamble of the day – Marginal REVOLUTION
Canada’s deficit is growing at the fastest rate among developed nations as it seeks to prop up its economy during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Canadian officials...
The ‘everything rally’: vaccines prompt wave of market exuberance
The markets have become too hot to handle. So intense is the frenzied stock-buying that even many of Wall Street’s biggest brokerages and wealth...
Why Governments Hate Decentralization and “Local Control” | Ryan McMaken
In recent decades, many have claimed that advances in communications and transportation would eliminate the different political, economic, and cultural characteristics peculiar to residents of different regions within...
