Global Economy

Presented in 1990, Krzysztof Ostaszewski offers a critique of Poland's half-way reforms and describes the obstacles the country faces in attempting to become a fully capitalist society.

Presented in 1990, Hoppe notes the errors already made in the process of German unification and offers an alternative free market solution.

Africa has plenty of hard workers and plenty of natural resources. But private property is not secure there, which means few are willing to invest their capital there.

Even if Trump and Xi both desire to reduce America's trade deficit with China, it's unlikely it will shrink in the short term.

"Green" parties gained too, and unfortunately, the big winners share an important similarity: they all advocate for more government interventionism in one way or another.

It is the lethal combination of tariffs and the end of the expansionary phase of the credit cycle which should concern us.

Italian politicians are thinking "full speed ahead" when it comes to debt and devaluing the currency. And it's becoming harder for the EU to contain the possible fallout.

Unlike Greece, Italy or other seriously debt-laden economies, it’s not just government borrowing that’s the main risk to Turkey.

The EU retreated from the ideas of free trade, free markets, and competition and turned its attention, resources and intentions towards developing a bureaucratic, regulatory, planning economy approach.