“No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy,” observed Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen in his 1999 book “Development as Freedom.” My recent ...

This week, the Human Rights Foundation launched its central bank digital currency tracker, an effort to chart the “development and implementation” of CBDCs worldwide. My Cato colleague, Nick Anthony, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Governments, even democratic ones, are willing to aid autocracies in silencing exiled dissidents if the host nation thinks it’s in ...

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Alexander Libman, an assistant professor of international political economy at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, visited Georgetown to discuss his upcoming paper on autocratic cooperation ...

Lugging his suitcase in one hand and a sales pitch in the other across North America, Yves Choueifaty, the Paris-based chief investment officer of TOBAM, wants institutions to understand that ...

Philippe Bolopion, managing director at Tobam Asset Management, sits down with InvestmentNews anchor Gregg Greenberg to discuss his firm's Liberty investing strategy, which avoids autocratic countries ...

To a casual observer, Donald Trump’s claim about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, eating cats and dogs seemed like a bizarre or mistaken claim that ultimately fueled millions of memes, jokes, ...

In her new book, "Autocracy Inc.," journalist Anne Applebaum argues that many of today's dictators collaborate to help keep one another in power. She joins the show to discuss this phenomenon.