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”

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”

Dr Thomas Mayer, Founder of the Flossbach von Storch Research Institute in Germany and ex-Chief Economist at Deutsche Bank, spoke to … Continue reading “An interview with Thomas Mayer”

With the news that inflation has fallen to 0.5 per cent there are “fears” that we might be about to … Continue reading “Deflating the over-inflated anti-deflation balloon”

Today the IEA published a monograph, The Euro: the Beginning, the Middle and…the End? Given the meeting of EU finance ministers … Continue reading “And when the music stops…”

Little more than three years ago, Ireland’s taxpayers were saddled with around 40 billion euros of debt, after their government … Continue reading “Ireland’s sovereign debt monetisation”