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Wednesday 24/October/2018 15:09 PM

America’s inflation risks

It was inevitable. Another upturn in the US inflation cycle is at hand. Since the Great Disinflation of the early 1980s, when the annual increase in the...

Tuesday 23/October/2018 14:25 PM

When agricultural workers go hungry

Food is a powerful storyteller. Our diet signals whether we cook at home, shop locally, prefer inexpensive dishes, or even think about what we eat. But the...

Tuesday 23/October/2018 14:23 PM

Are Britons really softening on immigration?

In the United Kingdom, the new conventional wisdom is that attitudes toward immigration are softening. A headline in the Financial Times this July stated...

Monday 22/October/2018 14:30 PM

The high cost of high finance

As the United Kingdom’s Brexit negotiations stumble on, other European countries are using the period of uncertainty about the future regulation of the...

Monday 22/October/2018 14:27 PM

The end of Scandinavian non-alignment

Having debarked from ports in western Sweden, military convoys from various NATO countries are crowding Swedish streets and prompting the police to issue...

Monday 22/October/2018 14:25 PM

Will Italy sink Europe?

Despite political turmoil and emerging risks at the global level, the eurozone has had two years of strong economic growth, at least by its own historically...