Global Economy

Iceland's populist left-anarchist/libertarian/hacker Pirate party just shook up the corrupt political establishment in Iceland.

The OECD has updated it's income measures, and we find that many European welfare states still rank among the lowest-income US states.

As public faith in elections falls, and politicians foist an ever greater burden on us, a true populist opposition movement may be growing.

The decline in industrial production is in many ways the product of government interventionism.

China has many problems, but it also has a high savings rate, a limited welfare state, and a rising middle class.

The world monetary order is changing. Slowly but steadily, global trade and currency markets are becoming less dollar-centric.

As in much of the globe, central bankers in Britain are quickly replacing elected politicians as the most visible and powerful public officials.

The TTIP is the latest agreement in which the voters and taxpayers are prohibited from seeing the laws they will soon be forced to follow.

Americans are saving very little money for emergencies. Unfortunately, central banks have been encouraging the same thing worldwide.

Neither government-controlled trade, nor government-enforced open borders are libertarian.