Marco Saba: AUDIT the European Central Bank While the euro monetary rent – hundreds of billion euros each year – is being masked in the ECB balance sheet (in the liabilities side instead of the assets side), we ask for a long due independent AUDIT of the European Central Bank. Please, do sign the petition [...]

By Eugene Kontorovich In a surprising and dramatic development, a federal judge in Virginia threw the international campaign against Somali piracy into jeopardy this week by dismissed piracy charges against a Somalis accused of an attack on a U.S. warship. The holding turned on a statute dating back to 1819 that punishes “piracy against the [...]

There is a crucial third trend threatening the UK games sector (Financial Times, “Underground niche is now mainstream”, June 16th) — a chronic and feudalistic leadership crisis. Business leaders’ lack of vision, plus overwhelming caution bordering on timidity, contributed greatly to the present innovation vacuum. University chief wizards must also share the blame. Obsessed with [...]