Jorelaang schonn si Lëtzebuerger Regierungen domat amgaangen der Staatsbeamtegewerkschaft hier Wonschlëscht ofzeschafen, mee sou richteg stellt sech dach d’Fro wat d’Salaire’s-Lobbyiste vun der CGFP da maache géife wann eng politesch Majoritéit hinne mol eng kéier géing Nee soen. Streiken? Firwat eigentlech net?
Lorsqu’on lui a demandé combien devrait coûter un paquet de cigarettes afin de réduire la consommation générale du tabac, le candidat à la présidence française, Emmanuel Macron, a répondu: «Je crois que 10 € est un prix adéquat. Je suis prêt pour ça». En effet, il semble que les politiciens français se trouvent en compétition afin de déterminer […]
“F**k it, we’ll do it live!” Bill O’Reilly’s iconic moment as a peeved host of “Inside Edition,” mixed with his more recent habit of dominating the ratings at Fox News, seem unusual in Europe. Here, TV, especially shows about politics and culture, attempts to maintain a facade of earnestness. Apart from the UK’s “Prime Minister’s Questions,” the […]
On the 13th of April, the Dáil (the Irish parliament) decided to get rid of the 2014-introduced domestic charging schemes for water consumption. The legislation had forced many Irish citizens to pay individual water charges, as opposed to water being a universal good provided solely through the government, free of charge. As the first bills arrived in January 2015, […]
Heiansdo sinn Nouvellen zu Lëtzebuerg ze kleng fir ee ganzen Artikel driwwer ze schreiwen, dofir hei de Réckbléck vun dëser Woch. De Réckbléck vun dëser Woch ass méi kuerz well ech momentan an der Examenszäit op menger Uni sinn. Donieft ass nach Vakanz am Land. Wien d’lescht Woch verpasst huet, dee fënnt se hei.
Risen eyebrows, perplexed faces: some visitors at The Society Club on Cheshire Street in Shoreditch, London looked slightly confused at the sight of the city’s very first Nanny Store on April 20. For one day only, the student group Students for Liberty and the Consumer Choice Center took on themselves to ridicule the creeping interventionist nature of what is often […]
On Thursday I had the chance to be a guest on The Glenn Beck Program to talk about the French Elections. We addressed questions regarding the persona of Marine Le Pen, the chances of Macron winning and similarities with what is happening in the United States. You can check out the audio down below:
Dëse Beitrag ass de Script vu mengem Fräie Mikro, deen den 27. Abrëll um Radio 100,7 iwwerdroe gouf. Nolauschtere kann een den 100,7 Beitrag hei. Jee nodeem wéieng Zeitung ee liest ass d’Resultat vum zweeten Tour am Frankräich elo scho bekannt: Den Emmanuel Macron gewënnt haushéich well de Front républicain, also déi etabléiert Parteien, sech zesumme gedoen […]
I first encountered the idea of opportunity costs when I read Frédéric Bastiat’s “That Which is Seen, and That Which is Not Seen”(1), an absolute must read for all students for economics or law. Bastiat brilliantly dismantles the idea of what he calls “The Broken Window Fallacy”(2): the idea that the destruction of a window […]
I had the pleasure to talk to Stephen Kent from the Young Voices podcast about the rise of the far-right in Europe and the results of the first-round vote in the French presidential election. One of the topics was the “European populists aren’t conservative, they’re faux-right” op-ed I co-authored with Young Voices executive director Casey […]
Bill Wirtz 