QANTAS-BRITISH AIRWAYS MERGER MAKES SENSE
I have long advocated that there is too much sensitivity and protectionism when it comes to how governments view their national carriers. Every nation, right down to tiny Nauru Island (population less than 10,000) has an international airline. Most are government-owned and if they aren’t, the largest shareholder is the government. The vast majority of [...]
GOOD-BYE GLOBALIZATION, WELCOME BACK PROTECTIONISM
The experiment of globalization has been a failure. Not even the Third World nations who were huge beneficiaries of industrialization have seen their countries make huge improvements to their internal infrastructure where the lot of the masses enjoyed better living standards, education and healthcare. Look at what is happening to China. Millions of poor “undocumented” [...]






