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“ From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent.” It was the soundbite of the century – or at least of the Cold War. Uttered by a former pri

Donald Trump is flailing, and no wonder. He was not elected to shoot nurses or raise healthcare costs for ordinary Americans while cutting taxes for billionaires. Yet the Democratic party’s elderly, w

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worksinprogress.co “Time and again,” economic reformers in the former communist bloc tried to “introduce rationality” into economic planning with the aim of producing abundance, says Michael Hill. The