Freedom of Choice: Articles & News
People frequently hear the media comment about issues directly related to the global economy. This includes topics such as digitalization, inequality and climate change. The result is a change in economic policies in many countries. Countries which, after years of stable growth, are preparing to face changes and a significant slowdown in the economy. The OECD recently […]
We all love and drink coffee, and nobody wants to pay an arm and a leg for it. But, by keeping coffee prices so low, we may be causing it to go into extinction. A full assessment of the world’s coffee supply shows that 60% of known plant species are facing possible extinction. Factoring in climate change, […]
Paolo Gentiloni, Brussels’ next economic chief has begun a warpath that has the potential to hinder the EU’s sustainability and innovation. Gentiloni wants to raise taxes on polluting companies. Over the past few years, discussions such as these regarding large tax increases have been gridlocked and for good reason. The proposed increase in taxes does […]
The Property Rights Alliance has released the International Property Rights Index of 2019, which measures the quantity and way that physical and intellectual property is protected. The ForFreeChoice Institute aligned with the International Property Rights Alliance and took part in helping create and research aspects of this Index. WHY IT IS IMPORTANT Property rights are […]
What’s the solution to this period of difficulty of democracies? On one hand we have the populist solutions, actually very similar to the old ones. On the other, institutions could embrace innovative proposals like the citizens assembly created in Ireland in 2016. Today, a major challenge for democracies and governments is hearing the voice of […]
How liberal democracies guarantee individual liberties, even to those who commit a heinous crime. Recently, an Italian police officer was stabbed to death eight times by two American tourists. The two Americans, 19-year-old Finnegan Lee Elder, and his 18-year-old friend Gabriel Christian Natale Hjorth, allegedly admitted to the stabbing of 35-year-old Carabinieri officer Mario Cerciello […]
As Trump makes it more and more likely that the EU and U.S will go into a trade war, more and more investors, consumers, media, and citizens are worried. Trade wars start off simple. I tax you, you tax me, we tax each other. The idea of a trade war makes sense, you did something […]
The von der Leyen Presidency of the EU Commission has embarrassed most of the media. Not because she is the first woman, but because she was elected with a restricted majority, 9 votes out of the 14 coming from the M5S. On the one hand, this has highlighted the error of having ignored the non-existence […]
Incredible strides have been made by the LGBT community in gaining rights and respect. It is no longer socially expectable in many areas to act with homophobia or discrimination towards those with different sexual or gender-related preferences. Following in the citizens’ path, companies have learned that by openly discriminating or supporting anti-LGBT endeavors, they lose […]
Air travel connects us. It makes it so that we don’t have to take boats across large oceans. It turns weeks and months of travel time into just hours. It just simplifies our life in many ways. But this is not enough, according to some establishments representatives. The Netherlands and France are trying to enlist […]