Speech and Panel Discussion on Brussels Bureaucracy
byA couple of weeks ago I gave this speech on EU bureaucracy, followed by a panel discussion at the Martens Centre think tank in…
February, 2026
Weird scenes inside the gold mine
by“Perhaps in his choice for Fed chairman, President Trump should have nominated David Copperfield instead.” “The stock market is the only market where things…
How People Keep the World Economy Running
byWhen institutions strain, behaviour adjusts. By Elias Sanchez Despite rising public debt, intensifying fiscal extraction, recurrent economic shocks, and heightened trade and policy uncertainty,…
The Delusions and Dangers of the New Mercantilism
byMore than 150 years ago, the noted British political economist and one-time editor-in-chief of The Economist magazine, Walter Bagehot (1826–1877), observed in an essay entitled “The…