PARIS – The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development’s leadership on global tax coordination has come under threat after a majority of UN members backed an African-led initiative to bring international tax cooperation to the United Nations. Many developing countries ...
Chinese health authorities have not detected any unusual or novel pathogens and provided the requested data on an increase in respiratory illnesses and reported clusters of pneumonia in children, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday. The WHO had asked China for more information on Wednesday after groups including the Program for Monitoring ...
DOHA – A truce between Israel and Hamas in Gaza will start on Friday at 7 a.m. (0500 GMT), with a the first batch of hostages to be released at 4 p.m., a spokesperson for Qatar‘s foreign ministry said on Thursday. The truce would include a comprehensive ceasefire in both the north and south of the Gaza Strip, Majed Al-Ansari ...
WELLINGTON – New Zealand’s National Party, ACT New Zealand and New Zealand First Friday signed a coalition agreement and will be sworn in as the 54th government on Monday. Here are some facts on the major players in the new government. CHRISTOPHER LUXON, PRIME MINISTER AND NATIONAL PARTY LEADER A former Air New Zealand chief ...
BRASILIA – Brazil will focus on reducing hunger and poverty, slowing climate change and global governance reform when it heads the G20 group of the world’s largest economies starting next month, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Thursday. Brazil takes over the G20 presidency from India on Dec.1 and will hold the 2024 ...
BUCHAREST – Romanian society is not ready to uphold the rights of same–sex couples in line with a European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruling, leftist Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu said late on Thursday. The ECHR ruled in May Romania had failed to enforce the rights of same–sex couples by refusing to recognise their relationships, in a ruling which could eventually ...
As the federal government continues its Ponzi scheme of issuing debt to pay for past debts, interest rates will increase to the point where this no longer is a tenable strategy—if it ever was. Original Article: The Interest Rate Shock Will ...
The Austrian (TA): At mises.org, we’ve focused a lot on how monetary policy can increase inequality and impoverishment. But the same could be said of many other non-central-bank interventions in the economy. What are some of these interventions that are ...
The role of the infinitely small is infinitely large.” ― Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. ...
On this episode of Radio Rothbard, Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop discuss the aftermath of Javier Milei’s election in Argentina. The two discuss the value Milei’s victory has for libertarianism and Austrian economics, the challenges he immediately faces, and what ...