Blog Minimum Wage Maximizes Teen Jobless Rate By: Ryan Young 07/15/2008 The Washington Post has a story today about the difficulty young people are having finding summer jobs. Their unemployment rate is over 18%, compared…
Blog UK Town to Abolish Traffic Cameras By: Ryan Young 07/14/2008 The UK has quietly become one of the most-surveilled societies on earth. The isle sports an eye-popping one surveillance camera for every fourteen people.
Blog EU Farmers Cry Over Spilled Milk By: Ryan Young 07/10/2008 Dairy farmers in the EU are upset that milk prices are lower than they prefer. Production quotas were raised by two percent in…
Blog Jagdish Bhagwati: Simplicity Is Beautiful By: Ryan Young 06/27/2008 I had the pleasure of seeing distinguished trade economist Jagdish Bhagwati speak yesterday. He is promoting his new book, Termites in the…
Blog Has the WTO Gone Bananas? By: Ryan Young 06/24/2008 Who knew bananas could be controversial? The U.S. and the EU are locked in a heated dispute over banana tariffs. Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras,…
Blog Obama Now a NAFTA Supporter By: Ryan Young 06/18/2008 Now that the primaries are over, Sen. Barack Obama has come out in favor of NAFTA. He told Fortune in an interview that “Sometimes…