by editor | Apr 8, 2019 | Top Page Links
Sub-saharan Africa’s economic growth rate dipped to 2.3% in 2018, down from an average 3.3% in the previous half-decade, according to a World Bank cited by the Financial Times, but the slowdown won’t last: over the next few years increasing prices for...
by editor | Apr 8, 2019 | Top Page Links
Yet another European country is turning its back on fossil fuels – or at least talking a good game about it. Britain hopes to begin reducing its dependence on natural gas in favor of renewable sources, especially wind and solar power, around 2025, according...
by editor | Apr 8, 2019 | Top Page Links
Six months ago one of Donald Trump’s signature campaign promises – the renegotiation of the “terrible, awful” North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) – looked set to become reality after U.S., Mexican and Canadian trade negotiators...
by editor | Apr 8, 2019 | Top Page Links
Although the EU-wide first attempt at taxing big digital companies for helping people buy and sell things and share pictures of cats online has failed, statists everywhere don’t despair: national governments can still punish them and stifle innovation all on...
by editor | Apr 8, 2019 | Top Page Links
As Brexit negotiations go down to the wire – well, another wire, possibly more or maybe less significant than the previous ones – European leaders are scrambling to figure out what can, might, and should be done to avert a no-deal Brexit and bring some clarity and...
by editor | Apr 6, 2019 | Top Page Links
By Erik Sass TES Editor In an age when technology carries more than just a whiff of Orwellian associations, “big data” was probably not the best nickname to give to the masses of information about us and everything else now collected by the Internet and digital...
