All Posts Tagged With: "U.N."
The Green-Economy Mirage
If you got an email offering you the chance to invest in a business that would create new profitable industries, employ millions of people, reduce energy consumption without reducing quality of life, and improve environmental quality, would you be skeptical? And if the email went on to claim that the technologies to do all this [...]
5Jan2010 | Andrew P. Morriss | 15 comments | ContinuedA World Superpower. So what?
There are very likely differing opinions among readers of this blog as to just what American foreign policy should look like. I’m personally not a total isolationist, but like most libertarians, I am skeptical about military power in today’s world.But what really drives me up the wall is when talk-show divas like Rush Limbaugh (who [...]
24Sep2009 | Mike Van Winkle | 7 comments | ContinuedIn Praise of Tax Havens
According to stereotypes, tax havens are little islands in the Caribbean, and indeed that’s true of some of the world’s premiere offshore centers. But to be more accurate, a tax haven is any jurisdiction that satisfies two criteria: First, its tax laws are attractive to global investors and entrepreneurs, and second, it protects its fiscal sovereignty by choosing not to enforce the bad tax laws of other nations, at least when they are trying to tax economic activity outside their borders. This means, of course, that individuals and businesses from high-tax nations have the option of using those jurisdictions as havens against excessive taxation.
10Jun2009 | Daniel Mitchell | 5 comments | ContinuedSomalia: Failed State, Economic Success?
By most measures Somalia has improved living standards faster than the average sub-Saharan African country since the government of Siad Barre collapsed in the early 1990s.
1Apr2009 | Benjamin Powell | 42 comments | Continued-
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