by Richard W. Rahn | Jun 13, 2017
Do you want your relatives, friends, business competitors and government bureaucrats to know precisely how much wealth you have, in what form, and how you spend all of your money? Most people were appalled when they learned the extent of monitoring of telephone and...
by Richard W. Rahn | Jun 6, 2017
No one knows what is going to happen 100 years from now — what problems human beings will face and what advances they’ll make. Are you willing to double your electrical bill — to European rates — to reduce global temperatures by two-tenths of 1 degree 100 years from...
by Richard W. Rahn | May 30, 2017
Which portion of government spending provides little or no value? The president just released his budget proposal, and the predictable chorus of complaints immediately began from those who want more spending for “whatever.” A quarter of a century ago, I was leading an...
by Richard W. Rahn | May 23, 2017
Vilnius, Lithuania It is hard to succeed if everyone is leaving. Some of the former communist countries are suffering from a population death spiral, with double-digit population declines over the last 25 years, as can be seen in the enclosed table. The problem is not...
by Richard W. Rahn | May 16, 2017
Zurich, Switzerland “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times” (with apologies to Dickens). Despite the attempts to unify Europe into an economic and partial political whole over the past 70 years, the grand experiment is unraveling, and it increasingly...
