Daily Policy Digest
International Issues
| BJÖRN BORG, COME HOME Getting rid of the wealth tax is a step toward making Sweden an entrepreneurial country, says Finance Minister Anders Borg... |
| MUM'S THE WORD IN MUCH OF THE WORLD Despite strides toward democracy and freedom worldwide, "insult laws," which make it a crime to insult public officials -- or in some cases, to insult any individual, group or religion -- are still widespread... |
| TAKING AIM AT LOW TAXES Should U.S. Senators force Hong Kong to raise its tax rates?... |
| SWEDES FINALLY SCRAP WEALTH TAX Eliminating the "wealth" tax is Sweden's latest effort to keep successful citizens and their capital at home by changing its fabled but costly welfare state... |
| WAL-MART AND THE WORLD China, India and Indonesia would be worse off without Wal-Mart, say Richard Vedder and Wendell Cox... |
| HUNGER: WHERE IS THE SCORN? Cuba grows so little food it must import it from the very nation its leader denounces, undermines and blames... |
| RADIOACTIVE MONEY The Iranian government should heed the science of economics and desist from inflation before it totally ruins the country, says Clifford F. Thies... |
| TB RETURNS TO EUROPE About 400,000 East Europeans become sick with tuberculosis each year and nearly 50,000 die from the disease... |
| PENSION DEFICIT DISORDER By 2012, the shortfall of Mexico's government worker's pension system is forecast to hit 77 billion pesos (around $6.9 billion); according to the Finance Ministry, equal to over 50 percent of Mexican gross domestic product... |
| WHAT IRELAND’S ECONOMIC REVIVAL MEANS FOR ARIZONA Ireland’s sound fiscal policy fueled an economic boom that both increased wealth and reduced poverty, says Benjamin Powell... |
