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Don Quijones: No Other Banks Are This Exposed to Turkey, Argentina, Brazil…. Emerging Markets Haunt Spanish Banks

To diversify from the euro-debt-crisis, the biggest Spanish banks pushed deeply into Emerging Markets. Now, they’re in a new crisis.

If Vanuatu Can Ban Single-Use Plastics, So Can the Other Commonwealth Countries

Vanautu is in the vanguard of commonwealth states moving to ban single-use plastic items, which are choking marine life, slowly poisoning fish (and those who eat them), and negatively affecting tourism.

White-Collar Criminals Got Off Scot-Free After the 2008 Financial Crisis — and That Helped Fuel President Trump’s Rise

Ten years later, Trump’s rise to power is a consequence of poor governance.

Could Turkey Trigger the Next Global Financial Crisis?

Why the currency crisis in Turkey is a due in part to the failure to take adequate corrective measures after the global financial crisis.

Brexit as a Tightly Coupled Process

Stepping back to look at the Brexit trajectory.

What Should the EU Do About the Turkish Currency Crisis?

The Turkish lira has been under significant pressure in recent weeks. What is the EU’s exposure to possible crisis in Turkey and how should the EU react?

The Trump-Media Logrolling

Looking at who the media has silenced in the Trump era, such as critics of America’s wars and of Israel.

Tom Engelhardt: America’s Groundhog Day Wars

A look at how long and how deeply the US has been mired in its many wars.

Ten Years After the Crash, Some Progress, But Much More Remains to be Done

A reading of what has changed since the crash and what problems remain.

Emerging Markets Swoon as Turkey Wobbles

A high level look at the upheaval in Turkey.

Amidst Rising Heat Waves, UN Says Cooling is a Human Right, Not a Luxury

The rising heat waves in the world’s middle income and poorer nations are threatening the health and prosperity of about 1.1 billion people, including 470 million in rural areas without access to safe food and medicines, and 630 million in hotter, poor urban slums, with little or no cooling to protect them.

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Category Archives: Doomsday scenarios

Don Quijones: No Other Banks Are This Exposed to Turkey, Argentina, Brazil…. Emerging Markets Haunt Spanish Banks

If Vanuatu Can Ban Single-Use Plastics, So Can the Other Commonwealth Countries

White-Collar Criminals Got Off Scot-Free After the 2008 Financial Crisis — and That Helped Fuel President Trump’s Rise

Could Turkey Trigger the Next Global Financial Crisis?

Brexit as a Tightly Coupled Process

What Should the EU Do About the Turkish Currency Crisis?

The Trump-Media Logrolling

Tom Engelhardt: America’s Groundhog Day Wars

Ten Years After the Crash, Some Progress, But Much More Remains to be Done

Emerging Markets Swoon as Turkey Wobbles

Amidst Rising Heat Waves, UN Says Cooling is a Human Right, Not a Luxury

ECB Fears Contagion from Turkish Lira Collapse, Bank Stocks Plunge

Puerto Rico: 1427 Hurricane Maria Deaths

73 Years After Atomic Bombing of Japan: Nuclear Threat More Immediate Than Ever

Neoliberalism Drives Climate Breakdown, Not Human Nature

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