Category Archives: China

Covid Baby Bust Has Governments Rattled

A falloff in baby production has capitalists very worried.

How the NATO Alliance Is Fighting Russia’s Sputnik V Vaccine With Subsidies From State Budgets and the Gates Foundation, Hidden by bhe Financial Times

The Financial Times runs dodgy numbers to claim that Russia is vaccine price gouging to poor countries, when that’s Big Pharma’s gig.

Pfizer’s Sordid Vaccine Sales Practices in Latin America Could Be a Big Boon for China and Russia

Vaccine politics could end up nudging countries in the region even deeper into China’s orbit. As vaccines fail to materialise, doctors turn to cheap, widely available drugs such as Ivermectin.

The Chip Shortage: Brought to You By American Neoliberalism

While the chip shortage will sort itself out in the next six months, the US can’t remedy its dependence on foreigners for critical supplies.

Intellectual Property Cause of Covid Death, Genocide

Refusal to temporarily suspend several WTO intellectual property provisions to accelerate broad progress against the pandemic is genocide.

Goldman Is Evil But McKinsey Is Worse

Why the McKinsey veneer is looking tattier and tattier with every passing day, and why that’s not likely to change.

TikTok Got A US Reprieve, But Elsewhere, It’s War

Tik-Tok is getting its wings clippped. But how far will containment efforts go?

Michael Hudson: Finance Capitalism vs. Industrial Capitalism – The Rentier Resurgence and Takeover

Michael Hudson provides a deep dive into the rise and rise of the rentier under financial capitalism.

Will North Korea Explode After Biden Becomes President?

North Korea is in even more of an economic mess than before. Will that lead to more brinksmanship?

Disruption of Seaborne Trade in South East Asia: A Quantitative Analysis

Restrictions to shipping due to military sanctions could have large negative effects on economic welfare for countries all over the world, including oil exporters such as the UAE and Saudi Arabia

A Hard Look at Rent and Rent Seeking with Michael Hudson & Pepe Escobar

An in-depth discussion of financial capitalism versus earlier models and the Chinese and Russian approach, with a focus on the role of rent.

How President Biden Can Fix our Trade Problem

Trump’s approach to trade largely failed because the problem can’t be solved by tariffs. Here’s the answer.

China Retrenches on Belt and Road Initiative as Defaults Rise

More on “Whither China?”

Why America’s Future Depends on Rebuilding Our Factories

Bringing factories back to the US would have been a good idea 20 years ago. Hard to see how we get there from here now.

The Impact of the New Asian Trade Mega-Deal on the European Union

Even though the econnomic impact ot the new Asian trade pact seems limited, Europeans see it as a geopolitical Big Deal.