Solving immigration is a question of economics
Across Europe and the USA, immigration is the hottest of political topics. How many immigrants is too many? Who should be allowed in and who should be turned away? How far does our obligation to help refugees actually go? But underlying the often heated discussion lies the fact that many Western economies have become dependent on immigration. In many [...]
More on the gender pay gap: what’s the problem?
Last week's International Women’s Day had a theme: Pledge for Parity! The problem is, you see, that women are paid less than men, and the pay gap won’t close until 2133! [...]
Draghi fires bazooka, misses target
So Mario Draghi today fired what was supposed to be his big bazooka of monetary stimulus, but when the markets had digested the new schemes the ECB has cooked up they decided [...]
How is the gender pay gap doing?
Today is International Women’s Day, and the papers are full of reminders that allegedly we have a way to go before achieving real equality between the genders. One area [...]
The US creates more low paying jobs
US non farm payroll posted another gain in February, when the US economy added 242,000 jobs. The bad news though is that, just as last month, it is was mostly minimum wage [...]
Mervyn King’s courage to do nothing
Ben Bernanke, the Federal Reserve chief during the 2007 crash, published his memoir entitled “The Courage to Act” in October – which Peter Schiff said should rather be [...]
Divine intervention: God doesn’t like shopping on Sundays
A group of British Christian leaders with nothing better to do has written an open letter to warn against a relaxation of the Sunday trading hours legislation. Apparently [...]
Inflation and the global currency war
When ECB chief Mario Draghi earlier this month warned that “there are forces in the global economy today that are conspiring to hold inflation down,” he was not just [...]
The end of History? How the mainstream wants you to think its all good
From Karl Marx to Francis Fukuyama, ‘thinkers’ have argued that history has a final, stable state that will persist for eternity. This is hardly a recent concept. [...]
The war on cash is coming
The gradual transition to a cashless society has finally made its way from obscure technicality/conspiracy theory to the pages of mainstream newspapers, after ECB chief Mario [...]
Only aliens can save us now!
They can’t say they weren’t warned: contrarian voices have been saying for years that the modern day alchemists in the central banks would not succeed in their experiment [...]