Everyone loves an optimist. A glass half-full type. A happy warrior. And when the optimist is “rational” as well, what is not to love? The “rational optimist” is the informal title that British writer (Lord) Matthew Ridley gave himself back in 2010, when he wrote the well-known book of the same name. Prior to…
Sergei Magnitsky was a tax accountant who was murdered in a Russian prison in 2009, having previously been refused medical treatment for severe illnesses. He had been detained after investigating a $US230 million ($A336 million) fraud involving Russian tax officials. Kevin Andrews MP An American friend and businessman, Bill Browder, took up the case, lobbying…
From the time of Donald Trump’s shock election to the U.S. presidency in 2016, his most bitter political enemies in the United States have called for him to be impeached to force him from office. Originally, the allegation was made that he had been falsely elected in 2016 as a result of collusion with Russia.…
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS), comprising 60 of the world’s central banks including Australia’s Reserve Bank, has issued a warning that unless countries act on climate-change, central banks may have to step in as the “climate rescuers of last resort” and even “buy large sets of devalued assets” such as coal, gas and oil…
