It is truly paradoxical: in the USA, where the state has successfully been relied on for decades to keep the economy running, Donald Trump’s billionaire advisors are now calling for a radical reduction in the state’s influence. Libertarians like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, …
These days, it is easy to see how a misunderstanding of economic processes can lead to enormous political conflicts. The tariffs that Europe, driven by the European Commission and its head Ursula von der Leyen, wants to impose on Chinese electric cars show once again that modern politics causes enormous damage because politicians do not even begin to understand the systems they are intervening in. …
The Greens have crashed brutally in the European elections. In Germany, their share of the vote has almost halved and in France, at 5 per cent, it has even fallen to almost a third of the 2019 figure. Anyone who believes that this is the end of the previous type of commitment to climate policy in Europe is right; …
