Trump made a big retreat on his China tariffs. But a second gambit, investment restrictions to isolate China, is already giving China fits.
Read more...Netanyahu plans another aggressive incursion into Gaza, intended as a Final Solution of sorts. Is a retaliatory oil embargo a real risk?
Read more...Poor and self-serving corporate oversight practices are going bigger and badder as they are taken to government.
Read more...The first US trade “deal”, with the UK, looks as ugly as one might have expected.
Read more...A look at two factoids in a new Martin Wolf article illustrate why our economic mess seems intractable….and not just for the feckless US.
Read more...A model of the economic effects of various tariffs war scenarios shows even the likley “least bad” outcome is stilll pretty bad.
Read more...The likely outcome of Trump policies are a recession, a rise in inequality, and a further fall in living standards of working and middle-class Americans
Read more...A battlefield update on Trump’s tariff wars.
Read more...Why the downside to Trump economic policies are far greater than the press and pundit class are willing to acknowledge.
Read more...Mapping the contagion fever chart of how a Trump financial meltdown might unfold.
Read more...Why BRICS has gotten barely anywhere on launching its own finanicial institutions and why that is unlikely to change soon if ever.
Read more...Why the Trump-induced economic and financial train wrecks will be more severe than most pundits seem to anticipate.
Read more...Some sobering facts on how China is outstripping the US in science and technology advances.
Read more...The formidable trio of Michael Hudson, Yanis Varoufakis, and Ann Pettifor assess the rapid changes in our economic system.
Read more...What ought to be a cause for tariffs pause: unrepresentative and often high taxes were a major spur to the French Revolution.
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