China Warns Australia Against Being a Democracy
China throws its weight around even more casually than the US does, achieving the difficult task of making Trump look not so bad.
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BIS Warns on Household Debt
Credit booms tend to go hand in hand with a misallocation of resources – most notably towards the construction sector – and a slowdown in productivity growth, with long-lasting adverse effects on the real economy.
Read more...The Bank Competition Myth
Why banks should not be considered to be private enterprises.
Read more...Book Review: Game of Mates
A new book. Game of Mates, documents how rentier capitalism and soft corruption operate in Australia. Many of its findings apply to the US.
Read more...IMF Blames Fall of Middle Class on Globalization and Technology
An IMF report comes up with some orthodoxy-reinfocing conclusions by failing to address some key issues.
Read more...The Clean Carbon Bad Joke
How viable are “cleaner” coal technologies? And can carbon sequestration save the day?
Read more...There Is No “Independent” Foreign Policy Choice for Australia
In the absence of that countervailing force, then, if we elect to turn away from the US and ANZUS then what we are most likely going to achieve is to accelerate the rise of a new imperial order.
Read more...As China Fortifies Its Little Islands, PACOM Moves F-22s to Darwin
China and the US are making thread displays at each other. Not big ones, but still meant to be noticed.
Read more...GT Group’s Protean Ian Taylor in the UK: Reuters’ Special Report on 43 Bedford Street, and More
An ignominious decade of UK company registration, illustrated by UK companies formed by Ian Taylor, an old friend from New Zealand
Read more...Bigger Cities Benefit the Rich, Harm the Poor
Australia’s major cities are benefiting the rich more than the poor and are becoming breeding grounds for inequality in the process.
Read more...Cutting Company Taxes is a Race to the Bottom
Corporations are winning an ideological battle, securing lower income taxes around the world. But how far can this trend go?
Read more...Here’s What Economists Don’t Understand About Race
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Read more...The Evidence Is Clear: Population Growth and Prosperity Are NOT Linked
An in-depth analysis of why the assertion that more population growth promotes higher living standards is bunk.
Read more...Salvation Army Slams New Zealand’s Loose Immigration Policy for Hurting Local Workers
Immigration is a hot topic in the antipodes too, for much the same reason as in the US….the impact on jobs and wage rates.
Read more...How the Housing Bubble is Remaking Australia’s Class Structure
How the housing bubble is restructuring Australian society. Are the same patterns emerging in your country?
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