Business Spectator
The economic curse of populism
As long as the Germans pretend that the current crisis was caused by speculation and not by inherent flaws of the European project, this crisis will not pass.
Month: May 2010
Ideas@TheCentre
A simple idea for our ever more complicated bureaucracy
The Red Tape Trading Scheme would make it possible to reduce administrative burdens without a top-down strategy.
Research reports
Towards a Red Tape Trading Scheme: Treating Excessive Bureaucracy as Just Another Kind of Pollution
For many years now, trading schemes have been used as mechanisms to reduce environmental pollution.
The Australian
Cap and trade our way out of red-tape pollution
WHAT do carbon emissions and red tape have in common?
Business Spectator
A European triumph amid the chaos
Where there is huge complexity, there should also be the greatest desire to cut it back.
Die Welt
So schön kann Koalieren sein
In England bilden mitten in der Krise zwei junge, enthusiastische Politiker eine Regierung der Zuversicht.
Business Spectator
The fantasy of European integration is over
By putting European idealism ahead of economic concerns, Europe’s leaders have given speculators ample opportunity to exploit the weaknesses of the flawed monetary construction that is the euro.
Business Spectator
Will German voters cut the cord?
Ironically, the Greek rescue package may have increased the chance of a future sovereign default in Europe – other nations struggling under massive debt burdens are likely to find there is nobody left willing to bail them out.
Other publications
A bailout that hurts the Germans but doesn’t help the Greeks
As long as countries such as Greece are joined with Germany in a monetary union, this monetary union will not work.