Empire-booster-in-chief Niall Ferguson gets yet another well-deserved shellacking, this time on how he falsifies the record in drawing lessons from Edward Gibbon’s The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
Read more...How Japanese Prime Minister Abe’s remarks to the DIet about the TPP reveal a lot about the aims of this deal and its vulnerabilities.
Read more...GXG Markets is gone but the dirty dealings continue
Read more...A look at Iceland’s financial crisis, why it happened and what can be done to mitigate the potential for similar chaos in the future.
Read more...The big thing I’ve learned since I hung up my keyboard as a generalist blogger is to, as much as possible, stay in my lane. I share everyone’s horror at the Paris attacks, and like everyone else have my own thoughts, however unformed, on the best way forward. But I make no pretensions to deep insight on international terrorism and a Middle East that has confounded just about every so-called expert for as long as I’ve been alive. So I’d rather just try to keep up with developments (and you’ll see more of that in the Links).
But there is something, first brought to my attention by Chris Hayes, on which I may be able to comment intelligently. Details are a little murky, but it appears France is seeking some wiggle room on the Schengen agreement.
Read more...Better to wait a day before writing, after a night like that. What does one write after such a night anyway? And why write anything at all if you can be dead sure to always antagonize some one on some side of some spectrum, ideological or not, no matter what you write, unless you tag some safe official line, and even then, or especially then?
Read more...The chain of events in Paris, strategy and tactics of the attackers, history of ISIS and origins of “radical islam”, French particularities, media critique, Beltway meltdown and warmongering.
Read more...Data and on the ground reports on the high cost of Greek austerity.
Read more...Offshore financial centres are a political and economic phenomenon that goes far beyond secrecy, and Ireland makes a remarkable case study.
Read more...Now government officials and police are disagreeing with each other…
Read more...uropean creditors want to extract more blood from a stone, in this case Greece.
Read more...Many Europeans argue that when you adjust nominally higher American incomes for how much we spend from our own pockets on healthcare plus the longer hours we work, we aren’t better off.
Read more...Even HM Treasury thinks the UK’s anti money laundering framework is a mess
Read more...How has Putin managed to survive, and even arguably prosper from, a US/EU assault on his leadership?
Read more...The spectacle of the US attempting to influence UK domestic politics through having the US Trade Representative Michael Froman issue a threat is pathetic, overreaching, and unconvincing.
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