People love big things. Big cars, big houses, big countries. Something in the human brain still worships scale, as if the mammoth that impressed our ancestors is still walking somewhere behind us. And so, many citizens will proudly point at the map and say: “Look how enormous it is — this is greatness.” They say it with the same confidence with which a smoker says his cough is “just from … Read the rest
Content 18+ History is littered with economic experiments that promised prosperity but instead delivered stagnation, inefficiency, and unintended misery. And yet, here we go again, donning the powdered wig of 19th-century economic nationalism, convinced that the past century of economic progress was just an unfortunate detour.
Tariffs are, in their most theatrical presentation, a knight’s shield against the marauding hordes of foreign competition. The logic is delightfully simple: make imported … Read the rest
Enough is enough. Let`s stop speaking about 4% a year inflation when the real price growth is 1.6% a month. Let`s stop speaking about safety when the murder rate is 11.31 per 100 000, that is between Surinam, Botswana and Papua New Guinea (where the rate is lower) and Panama, Nicaragua and Costa Rica (where the rate is higher). Just stop it.
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