World Watch
Insight on what's happening beyond the United States.
- Micro Man Tom Bethell 05/07/2007
- Everyone, from free-market conservatives to socialists, loves Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank, which has been lending tiny sums to millions of women in Bangladesh. Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize last year, but Tom Bethell wondered if the story was too good to be true.
- New Euro Record Prompts Quiet Grumbles Jurgen Reinhoudt 04/27/2007
- The apparent calm after this morning’s all-time high against the dollar masks a growing sense of unease in Europe.
- Flat World, Flat Taxes Daniel J. Mitchell 04/27/2007
- From Montenegro to Mauritius, competition is making tax codes simpler and fairer.
- The Birth of The New “Europeans” David Dabscheck 04/27/2007
- Coverage of the EU’s bureaucracy masks a larger cultural shift.
- A Strained Moment for Korea Frank Y. Lee 04/25/2007
- The Virginia Tech massacre casts a shadow over a remarkable cultural success story.
- The European Assault on Hedge Funds Jurgen Reinhoudt 04/25/2007
- If hedge funds want to avoid heavy-handed European regulation, they must tell Europeans what they do and why they deserve to operate with freedom.
- The Yeltsin Legacy Leon Aron 04/23/2007
- History will record the late Russian leader as a great liberator.
- Soviet History Could Motivate Freer Trade John Tamny 04/20/2007
- Cold war experience reminds us that wealth is only as good as the freedom to use it.
- Inside the Mind of a French Presidential Candidate Jurgen Reinhoudt 04/19/2007
- Reformist politician Nicolas Sarkozy’s new book Testimony is compelling reading for those interested in French politics.
- Is Canada’s Shift on Climate Change Part of a Larger Trend? Kenneth P. Green 04/18/2007
- Yesterday’s announcement by the Canadian government—that it may join a US-led coalition focused on voluntary emissions cuts—could be part of a global shift away from Kyoto’s binding targets.