Global Economy

Negative interest rates have proven to be unpopular with the public. But the central banks have other strategies up their sleeves.

The major candidates had their first shared television event this week. Absent was any discussion of the real issues effecting the American people.

Mark Thornton and Grégoire Canlorbe discuss Mises, Rothbard, the Drug War, and Adam Smith in this interview from Institut Coppet in France.

More than a decade ago, some South American countries were moving to the left in an effort to create a new paradigm. Things have not gone well for them.

It has now become clear that in many ways the European Union is a cartel of high-tax governments.

Godfrey Bloom gives a lively postmortem on the Brexit vote.

Ireland has tried to attract businesses by undercutting the tax rates of its neighbors. That is a good thing wherever it occurs.

Free-trade deals — which are more about increasing government power than trade — are in retreat in the face of Brexit and Trump.

Investors are not cooperating with the Bank of England's efforts to drive Brits to riskier investments.