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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The Hudson Report: Does Trump Know Anything About Trade?
Michael Hudson discusses Trump’s trade row with China.
Read more...How Different Are Trump’s Tariffs?
Trump’s tariffs and trade belligerence are less of a departure from recent US behavior than you might think.
Read more...Trade War or Not, China Risks a ‘Minsky Moment’
How China’s officials are trying to protect the county’s economic glass jaw.
Read more...Economists’ Dubious Relationship with Trade Policy: Comparative Advantage is a System that Works for the Wealthy
The great unwashed public has good reason to doubt what economists say about trade.
Read more...Millennials Are Waiting For The End Of Capitalism
Not surprisingly, Millennials are not in very good financial shape…..
Read more...Why Not to Expect Much from US Trade Talks With China
Why the Trump trade threats towards China aren’t likely to be terribly productive.
Read more...The Decline in Quality of Manufacturing Entrepreneurship in the US
Yes, Virginia, US manufacturing is going downhill at the bottom of the food chain as well as from the top.
Read more...The Euro Area’s Deepening Political Divide
The Euro is creating new fault lines. Eurozone leaders need to give greater priority to national interests, particularly of economic “losers”.
Read more...Mr. Market Has a Hissy Fit Over Trump’s “Coming Soon” China Tariffs
How much of the upset over Trump’s planned China tariffs is warranted?
Read more...Germany’s Pivot From Russian Gas Will Be Costly
Why Germany’s plans to hurt Russia via its gas exports may not go all that far.
Read more...Central Banks in the Age of Populism
Central banks are under more and more pressure to respond to public dissatisfaction with their stewardship. Is that such a bad thing?
Read more...J.D. Alt: Fiat Money and Three Big Societal Challenges
How fiat money denialism, also know as austerity and deficit scaremongering, is undermining the public’s ability to tackle pressing challenges like climate change.
Read more...Economists Shocked That China Invalidates Their Pet View That Economic Liberalization Producers Political Liberalization
Another economic fantasy, that the trade liberalization promotes the spread of democracy, takes some hard knocks from China.
Read more...Brexit: EU Tightens the Noose
Has the fatal Brexit standoff arrived, or will someone blink?
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