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Rain Dance

To much fanfare, the UN’s latest gathering to discuss climate change, the 26th such summit, is taking place in Glasgow, attracting world leaders and [...]

Rain dance

In December, Katowice in Poland played host to the UN’s latest gathering to discuss climate change, the 24th such summit, and it again ended with talk of [...]

What is fascism?

The word “fascism” is often used – and mis-used – to describe politicians and policies which are perceived to be somehow aligned with totalitarian [...]

What the climate strikers really want

Across the world, children have been skipping school to take to the streets. They are protesting to demand an end to the use of fossil fuels as part of the [...]

The (not so hidden) cost of regulation

Proponents of regulation often look primarily at the “benefits” of such regulation, but in every aspect of regulation there is a trade-off between pushing [...]

Climate change: the apocalypse of our generation?

What is happening to the climate? Predictions of imminent doom abound and have for a long time. Back in 2007, the International Panel on Climate Change [...]

Is the government always wrong?

For libertarians, the state is the enemy. We are opposed to government from a philosophical as well as a utilitarian angle, believing that voluntary [...]

What happens to the money when taxes are cut?

Modern economic debate is dominated by demand side economics. The tenets of Keynesian economic theory have so pervaded the spheres of politics and public [...]

Its ze Germans’ fault

Martin Wolf is at it again in the FT this week, scolding Germany for running a current account surplus and for their criticism of the ECB. In the Keynesian [...]