Capitalism and Freedom

Belarus is another Eastern European economy joining the flat tax club. The Ministry of Finance has proposed the shift from progressive tax s...

The Economist ( link ) has nicely discussed Russia's medium term macroeconomic outlook, focusing on energy prices, rubel's depreciat...

As a candidate country, Slovenia has been under a detailed observation by the OECD, particulary in areas regarding macroeconomic outlook suc...

Forbes recently published 2008's Tax Misery Index ( link ).

The Economist designed an interactive mapping with data, factsheet and forecast for 80 countries in the world ( link ).

The newest study by the KPMG surveyed tax rates on individual income around the world ( link ). The study finds that average top rate on ind...

I will come back with more comments regarding government bailout of Detroit's "Big Three" auto industry. Gary Becker ( link ),...

Amity Shlaes nicely outlined ( link ) the upcoming return of Keynesian economic policy initiated by efforts to boost consumer spending despi...

Fed chairman says ( link ) deflation might resurge as a worrying threat to the U.S economy.

Allan Meltzer suggests an increase in demand for housing as a way to prevent mortgage defaults.

Ed Glaeser of Harvard University provides a detailed insight on the importance of human capital for economic growth ( link ): "Schools ...

Nouriel Roubini writes that deflation is likely to spread through the global economy ( link ).

Here ( link ) is Harvard's Department of Economics web, listing articles and opinion by Harvard economists on current financial crisis. ...

FT reports that Fed is likely to endorse a further interest rate cut ( link ): "The Federal Reserve will probably end up cutting intere...

Iceland's central bank lifted the key interest rate to 18 percent from 12 percent after Icelandic krona lost 70 percent during this cris...

Bloomberg reports that Argentina's president has announced a seizure of $29 billion of private pension funds ( link ).

The Economist has published an interesting insight into Iceland's recent economic crisis ( link ): "Iceland has been growing smartl...

Icelandic government announced $6 bn rescue package to stabilize the economy ( link ) after an increase in government debt which is expecte...

Here ( link ) is an interview with Anna J. Schwartz, the co-author of Monetary History of the United States 1867-1960 ( link ), highlighting...

The Nobel laureate in economics in 2008 is Paul Krugman ( here ): "IT WAS widely expected that Paul Krugman, who won the the 2008 Nobel...