The results are in from the Nevada Republican caucus last night. Fresh from his win in the South Carolina Primary, where he won all 50 of the state’s delegates, it seems that Donald Trump and Making America Great Again is what the people want: he clinched 45.9% of the votes, an easy win. Florida Senator […]
Singapore is a nation born out of chaos. And traces of its less than auspicious beginning still remain, more than 50 years later, alongside a legacy left behind by one man who had a vision to take Singapore from being a third-world country to a first. It has been nearly a year since the passing of Singapore’s first […]
There’s something about Paris. Immortalised in countless films, novels and songs, it even plays a supporting role in several historical events. The City of Lights, the City of Love, it is the birthplace of liberté, égalité and fraternité. My first memories of Paris are as a child, rooted in front of the TV mesmerised by […]
Don’t worry, not everything in Australia is trying to kill you. That’s because the things that are mostly all over east. So come to Perth in Western Australia, we have great beaches and minimal deadly animals! But what exactly is there to do while you’re in Perth? That used to be a question I struggled […]
In the summer of 2010, Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy, one a sophomore in Stanford’s product-design program and the other a senior majoring in mathematics and computational science, developed Future Freshman, a suite of online software to help high schoolers, their parents and guidance counsellors to manage college admissions. They created a full-featured website with one […]
2016 is a gift to Congress according to a recent report by Ana Quintara, a policy analyst at The Heritage Foundation, giving the US the chance to improve its foreign policy approach to Latin America. For the first time since Venezuela’s Socialist Party came into power 17 years ago, the centre-right opposition party has won control of the National Assembly. […]
Thanks to technology, the way we consume music has changed dramatically in the past 20 years. This digital era determines our music intake through audio hardware, enhanced media formats and on-demand streaming services. According to Nielsen’s Music 360 study in 2014, Americans streamed 164 billion on-demand tracks across audio and video platforms, up from 106 […]
The citizens of Taiwan have spoken and the message they have sent to the People’s Republic of China is quite clear: it’s time for the Taiwanese to take back control and decide on the course of the nation on their own. Tsai Ing-wen swept away her opposition with 56.1% of the votes to lead her […]
Throughout history records exist of situations in which economic policies have been influenced or decided by firmly held beliefs which have little or nothing to do with proper economic treatises or textbooks. Dubbed ‘pre-economics’ by David Henderson, in his blog for the IEA, these ideas have had a pervasive influence on events and policies which […]
A recently published report by Carlo Stagnaro at the Institute of Economic Affairs laments the return of policymakers to the interventionist policies which once strangled the electricity and energy industries. Despite the successes of reforms introduced in 1990 that endured till 2010, the author highlights the U-turn taken by the UK and the EU in […]
Research and development is the foundation of all innovation and a key driver of economic growth. With 4.21% of GDP spent on R&D, based on figures from the Organisation for the Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Israel ranks first in the world, according to the World Economic Forum, in comparison to the US at 11th, and the […]
