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Monday, June 23, 2008
THE QUALITY OF BUSINESS LOCATION: THE CASE OF SWISS CANTONS
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Credit Suisse recently published a research paper ( link ) where it's been shown that Swiss cantons with lower tax burden and improved r...
Thursday, June 19, 2008
KENNEDY TAX CUTS IN 1960s
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Here is how JFK explained the benefits of tax reductions that he implemented in 1960s.
TAX RATE REDUCTION IN GIBRALTAR
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Tax-news.com recently reported that Gibraltar's government eventually decided to slash the corporate tax rate from 33 percent to 12 perc...
ARGENTINA'S PUBLIC DEBT SHOT UP TO 56 PERCENT OF THE GDP
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From FT : "Argentina’s debt levels are now higher than they were when it crashed into the biggest sovereign debt default in history in ...
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PRICE CONTROLS DON'T SOLVE RELATIVE SCARCITY: THE CASE OF MEXICO
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Financial Times reports that Mexican government decided to impose food price controls in response to an increase in food prices. It will be...
INFLATION IN ASIAN ECONOMIES
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Financial Times has a brilliant analysis regarding inflationary pressures and the surgence of macroeconomic instability in Asian export-driv...
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
REGULATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP
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Kevin Hassett of the American Enterprise Institute recently published in article ( link ) in which he explained why there is a negative corr...
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Thursday, June 05, 2008
CHILE'S ECONOMIC MIRACLE
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Wednesday, June 04, 2008
OECD - ECONOMIC OUTLOOK 2008
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AUSTRALIA'S ECONOMY GROWS FAST
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In the latest quarter, Australia's economy grew 0,6 percent - twice as fast as the economists forecasted - continuing 17 years of rapid ...
HOW WOULD EMERGING MARKETS SURVIVE MACROECONOMIC CRISIS
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Bloomberg discusses how emerging markets would survive an economic crisis ( link ).
AGEING POPULATION IN JAPAN
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From WSJ's Real Time Economics ( link ): "Japan’s finance minister, Fukushiro Nukaga , suggested a way to alleviate the country’s s...
CUTTING THE CORPORATE TAX BURDEN
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Greg Mankiw ( link ) recently wrote an article ( link ) published in The New York Times ( link ) discussing the possibility of a cut in the...
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
HOUSING BUBBLE SPREADS ACROSS EUROPE
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This article was written by Martin Rojko, a real estate analyst and frequent guest writer at Capitalism & Freedom. According to indicato...
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Monday, May 26, 2008
WHAT IS BEHIND THE INFLATION IN EMERGING MARKETS?
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Gary Becker ( link ) and The Economist ( link ) recently discussed the surge in commodity prices and inflation that has driven inflation rat...
Monday, May 19, 2008
FRENCH WELFARENOMICS
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Here ( link ) is an interesting story from The Economist which discusses huge price disparities between French and German retailers. For exa...
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
HAYEK'S THOUGHT ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008
RETHINKING ARGENTINA'S ECONOMIC CRISIS
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BrinkLindsey of the Cato Institute wrote a piece on the origins and causes of Argentina's economic crisis. The article can be read here ...
INFLATIONARY PRESSURES IN GULF COUNTRIES
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From FT ( link ): "Inflation has replaced unemployment as the most pressing short-term problem facing the oil-rich Gulf economies, whic...
Sunday, May 11, 2008
THE REAL FACE OF PUTINOMICS
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Aleh Tsvynski and Sergei Guriev wrote a brief article on Russia's state of the economy and political stability. Here's a slice of t...
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