Like eager lice on a ripe scalp, tourists have become a much-reviled feature of various economies. While cash and contributions come in their wake, such an industry depletes, drains and pollutes the very site it…
Pakistan’s economy has long faced a slew of issues, including rising inflation, political instability, and massive external indebtedness. The recent move by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) to decrease interest rates by 200 basis…
Why is social media so easily corrupted by the state? Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey says guys like him are the problem. “I was a single point of failure,” Dorsey said at the 2024 Oslo Freedom…
Conservative politics has traditionally been defined by its emphasis on fiscal prudence and the idea of a small state. While parties leaning left are usually associated with more spending and a larger presence of the…
For most of its just over 30 years of independence, Turkmenistan has been left out of discussions on Central Asia as well as both north-south and east-west transportation routes linking the region to the rest…
By Allen Gindler One of the central tenets of Marxism is the labor theory of value, which states that the value of a commodity is determined by the amount of socially-necessary labor time required to…