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Capitalism has raised millions, if not billions, of people out of poverty. It is the greatest engine of human flourishing that has ever existed. It is worth defending, but those willing to do so are few and far between, even in the societies that have most benefitted from the wealth that...
Rising interest rates are of concern for global economists and practitioners, as an increasing level of government bonds have been employed throughout the world during the Covid...
By ignoring the wisdom of those with more experience, we end up repeatedly revisiting the same issues. “History repeats itself over and over again, but most of us have short...
As a once-devout environmentalist, I have a T-shirt with a slogan heavily used by activists. Often credited to the Abenaki Alanis Obomsawin, it speaks directly to our...
'The future is not some place we are going, but one we are creating.' John Schaar, Legitimacy in the Modern State (1981). The last year has been a challenge for the property...
China is close to launching nine infrastructure REITs to finance national infrastructure projects (eg, industrial parks, warehouses, tollways, sewage plants) for the first time,...
Tax increases are bad fiscal policy, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that they are politically unpopular. Indeed, many voices in the establishment...
I’m a heretic in a world where environmentalism is a leading religion. I think it’s OK to use a lot of paper and I generally ignore the little exhortation at the bottom of so...
China is huge: 1.4 billion people live in a country covering 3.68 million sq mi, with over 850 million people living in cities. Half of this urban population resides in roughly...
A fascinating exchange played out in the UK’s House of Lords on 2 June 2020. Neil Ferguson, the physicist from Imperial College London who created the main epidemiology model...