Month: February 2020
A decade without a recession: were the doomsayers wrong?
On 1st July 2019 the US economic
expansion, which started in the wake of the global financial crisis in June
2009, entered its 121st month and thereby [...]
Preventing a pandemic – without the state
It was a bright Sunday morning in March 2014 when the first
case of Ebola was diagnosed in Harbel, a town of some 80,000 people in the West
African country of [...]
Don’t fight inequality, it is both desirable and inevitable
Recently the actor Simon Pegg, star of Shaun of
the Dead, was one of 120 wealthy signatories from around the world to a letter calling
for higher taxes on the [...]