Making the World Safe for KFC: How Development Banks Underwrote Fast Food’s Global Takeover
How the World Bank’s IFC and others development banks supported KFC’s world conquest by backing its factory farms.
Read more...How the World Bank’s IFC and others development banks supported KFC’s world conquest by backing its factory farms.
Read more...The FTC’s Lina Khan is loaded for bear and targeting potential (as in probable) tech-facilitated price collusion in health care.
Read more...Industrial policy, despite recent lip service, is out of favor because doing ambitious things isn’t lucrative enough for the right people.
Read more...New anti-espionage laws in China could make an increasingly tenuous situation for Western drug buyers even worse.
Read more...On how recent administrations enabled Boeing’s industry takeover and covered up safety deficiencies at Boeing and in the shipping industry.
Read more...More on “American hates the poors”: companies face hardly any downside in cheating on disgracefully low minimum wages.
Read more...Sahra Wagenknecht shook up the German political establishment with the January launch of her new left-populist political party. She’s now looking to do the same in the European Parliament.
Read more...Some struggles can be kept nonviolent, but decolonization never has been—certainly not in India.
Read more...As the rich become both richer and better bunkered, the young are finally realizing that wealth disparity is a big part of what ails them.
Read more...A recent conference in Colombia assessed the extent of land grabs and how to organize against them.
Read more...Two snapshots of the impact of hollowed out office buildings on American cities and how they are trying to cope.
Read more...Why has Biden failed to add a clause to Federal contracts to protect workers from mass layoffs?
Read more...Yellen made a complete hash of the question of Chinese overcapacity, a real problem unlikely to sort itself out nicely.
Read more...The obsession of big-name economists with defending a bad model has consequences, here, a policy aim of whacking wages.
Read more...Is industrialization the original sin of both capitalist and Communist/socialist economic systems?
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