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Lifting, or at least loosening, drug prohibition should be one of the first decisions of any government that values ​​freedom, a healthy non-violent society, families and the economy. “The Disaster of Drug Prohibition,” published on the Mises Institute website. In their opinion, this would stimulate entrepreneurship by increasing tax revenues, […]

From the fort located on an island outside the heart of historic Mumbai, visitors can spot giant oil tankers unloading cargo at two oil refineries on the city’s south-east coast. Just a year ago, these ships were almost certainly transporting crude oil from one of a dozen or so major […]

Goldman Sachs joins a long list of analysts who have revised their forecasts for the world’s second largest economy. For example, economists at UBS Investment Bank lowered their forecast from 5.7 to 5.2 percent. Japan’s Nomura Holdings made a similar move, cutting its forecast for this year to 5.1 percent. […]

The European Commission presented its first economic security strategy this week, focusing in particular on dual-use technology (which can also be used in the military sphere in addition to civil applications), strengthening controls on foreign investment and creating export control coordination mechanisms. Brussels’ response to Chinese instrumentalization of the economy. […]

In a country with a population similar to that of California, more people have arrived in a year than San Francisco has. Last week, Canada surpassed 40 million inhabitants for the first time in history. Growth is expected to continue at a fast pace as the country has opened its […]

The undisputed leader in the cobalt market is the Democratic Republic of the Congo (with three-quarters of the world’s pie), but the leap that Indonesia has made in obtaining this element is not trivial. China, the largest consumer of this raw material – present in mobile phones, computers, tablets and […]

On June 12, on the occasion of Russia’s national holiday, Kim Jong Un sent a message to President Vladimir Putin, in which he stressed that the improvement of cooperation would be “in line with the common desire of the peoples of both countries,” the North Korean state news agency KCNA […]

Scientists from the American Johns Hopkins University and the University of Lund in Sweden have completed a cycle of 20,000. research on global restrictions related to attempts to protect against COVID-19, the Daily Telegraph reported. Pandemic repressions (because that’s how they should be called) had – as it was described […]

Data from the operator of the French energy network RTE (Réseau de Transport d’Électricité) show that since mid-April, i.e. the month in which the last three reactors were shut down in Germany, our western neighbor has become almost completely dependent on electricity imports from France . Meanwhile, the Federal Network […]

After February’s earthquakes in Turkey, thousands of families are still living in tents or container houses in the affected areas. The government’s slow response to deploying rescue teams and humanitarian aid, added to the inflationary crisis the country is facing, has led analysts and opposition parties to believe that President […]