George Orwell is easy to quote, but what would the iconoclastic British socialist really have thought about politics today?
The Putinization of America 🔱🔥👊🔥🔱 Trump’s deference to the Russian dictator has become full-blown imitation. By Garry Kasparov We are barely a month into the second presidential term of Donald Trump and he has made his top priorities clear: the destruction of government 🦋
Authoritarian leaders are most dangerous when they’re popular. Wrecking the economy is unlikely to broaden Trump’s support.
Poland pulled back from an authoritarian slide. What can the U.S. learn from its nonpartisan approach
What happens to your body when you deliver a 25-hour speech without any breaks?
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Economists have long struggled to measure the informal economy, despite its significant role in global economic activity. Previous methods have relied on indirect proxies such as cash circulation or electricity usage, or on inferences based on highly structured macroeconomic models.
This column introduces a new, algorithmic and easily updateable approach to estimating informal activity in Europe, utilising VAT data and consumption surveys. While the approach works particularly well for Europe, it can in principle can be extended to other countries where value added taxes are a major source of revenue.
Mining insights from the underground economy
Russia-US Negotiations: Trump Criticism Follows the Bad Sign of the Lack of a Joint Statement After Last Round and the Iran Angle
Having barely started, the US-Russia negotiaions are already going a bit pear shaped.