Free Markets, Anybody?
By Paolo von Schirach – WASHINGTON – Let’s be honest. The free markets that we learn about in school...
Tag: European Economies
Brexit Should Force EU To Rethink Its Purpose Europe is mostly a morass of complicated rules that many Europeans find oppressive
WASHINGTON – The most improbable is now reality. Great Britain opted out of Europe. What does this Brexit vote...
There Is No European Identity The British and many others have ambivalent feelings about EU membership
WASHINGTON – For the outside world, the current political debate within Great Britain about staying in the European Union,...
Immigrants No Longer Welcome in Europe A few instances of criminal behavior gave a bad name to all new comers
WASHINGTON – Predictably, the European refugee problem has turned into a major Europe-wide political crisis. Anti-immigrant, far right political...
Europe’s Refugee Crisis Getting Worse Immigrants coming into Europe do not add to the economy. They need services
WASHINGTON – According to UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, so far in 2015 Europe received about 300,000 refugees who...
Europe Sliding Into Irrelevance High debt, no innovation, and no opportunity paint a grim picture. Draghi's QE will solve nothing
WASHINGTON – Here is today’s Europe. Stagnating economies, non-existent innovation, high debt caused by unaffordable pensions and other...
Advice To Europe: Deregulate And Cut The Red Tape Steven Rattner, a centrist, writes that Europe's problem is a suffocating regulatory environment
WASHINGTON – Well known Wall Street financier Steven Rattner stated the obvious about Europe’s lack of competitiveness and what to...
Fiscal Stimulus Does Not Work –Yet We Keep Applying It Stimulus funds are badly used. Capital is wasted, debt grows, and the economy does not benefit
WASHINGTON – “If economic troubles are approaching, put together a big stimulus package”. This is the universally accepted prevention/remedy therapy...
The Economist Gives Good Advice To Europe – Anybody Listening? Sure, the EU should relax austerity measures in exchange for serious pro growth reforms in weak countries. And Europe could start large scale, productivity enhancing infrastructure projects. But none of this will happen
WASHINGTON – The respected The Economist magazine dishes out good economic growth advice to Europe, (The World’s Biggest Economic Problem,...
Total’s Chief Accidently Killed By His Russian Friends Christophe de Margerie was an outspoken proponent of closer energy ties with Russia
WASHINGTON – It is really odd that oil man Christophe de Margerie, Total’s CEO and Putin’s friend, was killed in...