6 July 2016
So Brexit it is. And if you believe many of the pundits opposing it, it would seem the UK has … Continue reading “The EU still doesn’t get it”
1 March 2016
As the debate on British membership of the European Union gathers steam, the Eurozone is getting a fair amount of … Continue reading “False claims about the Eurozone from the Brexit camp”
4 September 2015
In June 2015, Greece became the first developed country to fail to make an IMF loan repayment. Starting in late … Continue reading “Greece needs a Hellenic version of Thatcherism”
21 July 2015
When the euro was adopted, British sceptics argued that it was impossible to have a single currency without a single … Continue reading “How the Eurozone could survive without building a European super state”
17 July 2015
About eight years ago, I attended an economics conference in Berlin, where one of the speakers criticised the structure of … Continue reading “Why Greece cannot prosper in the eurozone”
2 July 2015
What I admire about the anti-capitalist left is their ability to present their ideas as somehow “unorthodox” and “anti-mainstream”, when … Continue reading “Big Government, not ‘austerity’, has brought Greece to its knees”
18 May 2015
Tax competition among Swiss cantons and municipalities puts downward pressure on taxation, but it does not lead towards a policy … Continue reading “What the euro zone could learn from Switzerland”
1 April 2015
We can probably safely say that those who still believe that Greece will repay the €320bn+ it owes can be … Continue reading “Why Greece negotiated the wrong issue”
16 March 2015
In recent years, euroscepticism has been growing in the UK and elsewhere. This is largely due to concerns about a … Continue reading “On European order”