Economy

Although cinemas are declining, screenings have doubled since 2003. Ticket revenues have also seen significant growth in recent years.

The results of the experiment in Portugal are encouraging. For almost all types of drugs and for consumption in general, data after decriminalization show a decline compared to the 1990s.

The main requirement for the state is to be an impartial machine, whose driving force is the legal framework. The possibilities of state intervention must be strictly defined, and its perimeter of action - limited.

Forecasts, suspicions and concerns about countries leaving the Eurozone are becoming more and more dynamic, and the real probabilities are becoming more and more alarming.

A common misconception is that the Chinese government, with its intervention in the markets, has been responsible for the steady growth of the Chinese economy over the past few decades.

Even though schools are supported by our taxes, we only laugh at the failure of a product we ourselves helped create.

The student loan bubble in the United States was born out of shortsighted education policies. After the last administration tried to equip every American household with their own home (without much success), the goal is now for every American to receive a higher education.

What affects oil prices? What can governments do? And can a commodity be controlled at all?

The problem with the solidarity-based health insurance system is rooted precisely in its solidarity, and not in the fact that a state administration has simply not yet been found that can "effectively manage our healthcare money."

Perhaps Deng's most important move was decollectivization. The process freed up the labor force—those left outside the "iron rice bowl" system—without work and income. They were the free resource that private initiative in the country needed.