Europe

From Alberta to Australia, from Finland to France, and beyond, voters are increasingly showing their displeasure with expensive energy policies imposed by politicians in an inane effort to purportedly fight human-caused climate change.

If you look at the results of relatively open and competitive market economies over the years, the only conclusion that can reasonably be reached is that free market liberal-oriented societies provide the conditions for constant betterment.

Russia is once again actively trying to influence the policies of foreign governments, though this time, the target is Europe, not the United States.

When Thomas Edison established his Pearl Street power plant in New York City in 1892, he used coal for fuel, not wood.

It has been said that economists have predicted “nine of the last five recessions,” or words to that effect, suggesting that the “dismal science” can’t be trusted.

Greece is on the verge of settling the repayment of its bailout loans from the International Monetary Fund, European banks and other creditors.

Agriculture is under attack.

On August 29, Research Fellow H. Sterling Burnett was a guest on the Energy Matters to discuss how the G-20 Summit nations snub and isolate the United States for their decision to leave the Paris climate agreement.

America’s Founding Fathers did not encourage unlimited immigration, but neither did they prevent or discourage it by any federal legislation.  They believed most decisions should be left to individual states to regulate.

With the highest top marginal tax rate in the developed world, if not the entire world, at nearly 40%, counting state corporate taxes on average, this U.S. taxation is very burdensome.

When the dust settled after last Tuesday’s parliamentary elections, Mrs. May’s commanding position had been swept away. Britain was left with a “hung parliament”; for the first time people were seriously looking at Jeremy Corbyn.

It is easy to overlearn the lessons of Albert Einstein’s story. A representative anthology of the great minds that fled central Europe during the mid 20th Century reveals a complex picture. Many, in their own ways, interesting. Each, human.

Those of us who have been fortunate enough to have been born in what is often still referred to as the Western Worldrarely appreciate the historical uniqueness of our material and related cultural well being.