Capitalism and Freedom

The OECD Factblog highlighted a comparison of tax burden across the OECD countries. The main findings of the comparison is that overall tax ...

The $140 billion rescue package to Greece is a milestone in the European Monetary Union. A lively debate on recent macroeconomic imbalances ...

Urska Zagar posted two very interesting empirical articles ( here and here ) about the connections between corruption, economic freedom and...

Source: Office of Budget and Management (2010)

Bureau of Labor Statistics has recently published quarterly productivity and costs figures in the US nonfarm business sector ( link ).

NY Times recently reported on the agreed financial rescue assitance to Grecce from EMU (€110 billion) and IMF ($145 billion). Alongside Irel...

Here ( link ) is an article by Barry Eichengreen discussed in the previous post.

Barry Eichengreen wrote a thorough defence of China's exchange rate policy response to the global demands for letting the renmimbi appre...

Here's a brief Sunday reading list on the issue of China's exchange rate and US manufacturing jobs. Simon J. Evenett and Joseph Fran...

I published a brief analysis ( link ) for the European Enterprise Institute , discussing a pattern of a growing income differential between ...

Gary Becker ( link ) and Richard Posner ( link ) opened an intense debate on the issue of a growing US income inequality since 1980s onwards...

Dan Mitchell wrote an interesting op-ed in NY Post ( link ) concerning the prospects of adopting a European-style value-added tax (VAT) in t...

From BLS ( link ): " Nonfarm payroll employment increased by 162,000 in March, and the unemploymentrate held at 9.7 percent, the U.S. B...

The Economist published a fascinating overview ( link ) of the macroeconomic indicators in Europe's most vulnerable economies in the cur...

In Friday's edition of NY Times, David Brooks wrote a very interesting column ( link ) discussing the state of economics. Although subtl...

Daily Telepgraph collected a few interesting graphs ( link ) depicting the UK economic performance and discussing the economic legacy of the...

Hernan Buchi, former minister of finance in Chile, recently published a new book The Economic Transformation of Chile ( link ) where he out...

There's an interesting story from Washington Examiner ( link ) discussing the coming economic crisis in California (which has been notab...

I recently presented my recent paper on Iceland's economic and financial crisis ( link ) in the European Parliament in Brussels ( link )...

Paul Krugman ( link ) and Greg Mankiw ( link ) analyze the costs and benefits of China's exchange rate policy.