Bukele’s Bitcoin Blunder, Totalitarian Troubles in El Salvador
How the president of El Salvador is using cryptocurrency to usurp power.
Afghanistan: A Poster Child for Foreign-Aid Failure
How U.S. aid dollars fueled corruption in Afghanistan.
Lebanon’s Politicians, the Masters of Disaster — Exhibit No. 1: Artificial Fuel Shortages
The masters of disaster — Lebanon’s political elites — should stop subsidizing Lebanon’s fuel imports and imposing price controls on fuel.
El Salvador’s Road to Currency Chaos and Economic Collapse
El Salvador’s new Bitcoin Law is a solution in search of a problem.
Hayek and Mundell on Afghanistan
Hayek and Mundell have left us with lessons — lessons which have never been learned by the establishment in Washington, D.C.
The IMF Wins Big at the G-20 in Venice
But will the countries it purportedly seeks to help?
A New Bitcoin Law Risks Ensnaring El Salvador in FATF’s Regulatory Web
It will destroy the country’s competitive currency regime and create a regulatory nightmare.
Iran’s Misery and the Miserable State of the Iranian Rial
As Iran heads to a presidential election on June 18, its economy is a shambles. There’s a partial solution — if its rulers are interested.
Why More U.S. Inflation Is Right Around the Corner
The recently released Consumer Price Index numbers should be seen as a harbinger of what’s to come.