Clearing up misunderstandings about the Russian move to require unfriendly countries to pay roubles for gas.
Read more...Michael Hudson and Patrick Bond: Will China resist financialization and lead the way on climate policy, or is it practicing capitalism lite?
Read more...Why do so many people who think of themselves as smart have their brains go to mush when the topic is crypto?
Read more...India is mulling setting up rupee-ruble payment arrangements, to allow it to trade with Russia in spite of the sanctions regime.
Read more...AG Merrick Garland outlined corporate crime enforcement priorities in a speech last week before an ABA group.
Read more...Why America is operating abroad to advance the interests of arms dealers, oil & gas, and Big Finance, and not its citizens.
Read more...News on the partial SWIFT cutoff for Russia was fuzzy. Despite being included, its central bank intervened in FX markets this AM. What gives?
Read more...An increase in global financial risk causes a large and persistent widening of sovereign spreads, with the spillover effects especially pronounced for speculative-grade sovereign debt
Read more...Sadly, finacialization is still very much with us, even though policy-makers know better by now.
Read more...Banks crack down on independent ATM operators in the latest salvo in the war on cash.
Read more...Why the implementation of Canada’s Emergencies Act is a terrible precedent.
Read more...Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep Katie Porter press regulator for answers as to how Wells Fargo apparently gamed the arbitration system.
Read more...James K. Galbraith discusses the shift of the US from industrialism to his so-called predator state: finance-led, military-centered corporatism
Read more...Occupy the SEC is back! The small group of lawyers, bank compliance experts, and financial services industry product specialists generated an outside reputation with its highly praised, over 300 page comment letter on Dodd Frank. As Law.com wrote: In detailing how they believe the Volcker Rule can be strengthened, Occupy the SEC has written what […]
Read more...The IMF seems unable to drop its punitive, self and “client” destructive habits.
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