Europe

The European Welfare State Is Collapsing

Politicians in Europe are using the JD Vance and Trump external enemy excuse to disguise the existential problem of a system that is crumbling. The statist...

When Will the EU Learn to Make More Friends?

As the EU shivers over what America’s new president will or will not do, policymakers in Brussels consider continuing catastrophic economic warfare on Russia. News...

Cold War Thinking Isn’t Working

With Russia launching a military invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, the corporate press has grown shrill in its calls for punishing Russia...

Keep US Out of War

Events in Ukraine are happening very fast, and if I tried to predict what will happen there, my prediction would soon be overtaken by...

The European Central Bank Is Trapped Like the Fed

The eurozone’s annual price inflation rate hit 5 percent in December 2021 and (as of this writing) the consensus is for 5.1 percent in January 2022. Eurozone...

European Government Expansion Did Not Expand the Job Markets

For the past two years, governments in the European Union have engaged in contradictory actions by both suppressing economic growth through lockdowns and other...