Links from the last days # 2019-07-27

• The real Nordic model: higher taxes on low-income workers
  • https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/the-real-nordic-model-higher-taxes-on-low-income-workers
• New U.K proposal called Ghost Protocol aims to oblige messaging apps to give backdoor access to law enforcement
  • https://ponderwall.com/index.php/2019/07/10/uk-law-messaging-privacy/
• The EU-Mercosur Trade Deal and the Lunacy of Protectionism
  • https://www.austriancenter.com/eu-mercosur-trade-deal-protectionism/
• Shipyard could be nationalised amid ferry row [why?]
  • https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-49042463
• Is minimum alcohol pricing killing drug addicts?
  • https://www.thinkscotland.org/todays-thinking/articles.html?read_full=13959
• Rental Housing Is Being Transformed Into a Planned Economy in Germany
  • https://fee.org/articles/rental-housing-is-being-transformed-into-a-planned-economy-in-germany/
• Just what we needed: ECB Studies Revamping Inflation Goal in Twilight of Draghi Era
  • https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-18/ecb-studies-revamping-inflation-goal-in-twilight-of-draghi-era
• Europe embraces rent controls, a policy that never works
  • https://www.economist.com/europe/2019/07/18/europe-embraces-rent-controls-a-policy-that-never-works
• Inventing European Identity - Austrian Economics Center
  • https://www.austriancenter.com/inventing-european-identity/

From 2019-07-14 to 2019-07-26