This Real News Network interview with Diana Ruiz of Greenpeace covers yet another dangerous effect of global warming: soil degradation and its knock-on effects.
Read more...Why the sanctions on Venezuela aren’t all they are cracked up to be.
Read more...US business will asset-strip the UK, but that’s not all: the Pentagon will find the little-known fragments of the British empire very useful.
Read more...A dubious proposal to continue over-reliance on monetary policy, this time with a quantitative easing scheme, instead of fiscal spending.
Read more...Should you worry about the biggest fall in semiconductor sales since the Financial Crisis?
Read more...Markets are in a tizzy over the US-China trade row. But what might come next?
Read more...Mark Blyth gives a pithy talk on the economic regimes of the modern period and what is likely to be in store.
Read more...Now, after nearly half a century, the verdict on neoliberalism is in.
Read more...Young people with pretty high incomes are sinking under debt.
Read more...Europe, or more specifically the Eurozone, has a deficient bank regulatory framework which may be tested by economic weakness and wobbly banks. Having Christine Lagarde at the ECB’s helm is not likely to be a plus.
Read more...Is a flabby Financial Times story just a case of a piece not coming together, or is the pink paper pulling its punches on Brexit?
Read more...On how revived commons can work in a modern economy.
Read more...A sharp fall in construction has helped push Mexico to the verge of recession. The construction industry blames AMLO’s anti-corruption push.
Read more...Michael Hudson’s latest: Debts that can’t be paid, won’t be. When debts can’t be paid and debtors default, what happens to these creditors?
Read more...No one is blinking in the Brexit staredown.
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