Militarized Japan and the Biden-Kishida Summit Signal Moment in the New Cold War
The US is pressing an (over) eager Japan to develop offensive capabilities, with an eye to a conflict with China.
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50 Years After Allende at the UN: a Corporate Triumph Named Multistakeholderism
Allende was early to warn of multinational threats to product safety, labor regulations, and other protections. Sadly corporate interests won.
Read more...BlackRock Says We’re All Doomed. It’s Being Optimistic
The world’s largest asset manager has forecast systemic economic chaos. The reality is even worse.
Read more...Worst of Europe’s Energy Crisis May Be Yet To Come
Just because the weather gods are now smiling on Europe does not mean its energy crunch is over.
Read more...The Currency Swaps Time Bomb in Global Finance – Rob Johnson
Currency swap exposures have gotten to be uncomfortably large……
Read more...The 2022 Globie: Money and Empire – Perry Mehrling on Charles Kindleberger
Perry Merhling’s recent book on Charles Kindleberger finds he had prescient beliefs about the need for a prudent international money minder.
Read more...“The Expat Experience”
Some perspectives on being an expat.
Read more...Thomas Frank on How the Feckless Democrats Trashed the American Middle Class
How Democrats abandoned populist economic ideas and whether there is a future for progressivism.
Read more...Michael Hudson Discusses the Future of Europe and Global Restructuring
Michael Hudson describes how the war with Russia is changing the economic and political order, and not to the advantage of Europe and the US.
Read more...Needed Global Financial Reforms Foregone Yet Again
The pathologies that produced the financial crisis are still circulating.
Read more...Dethroning the Dollar: What Governments Propose, IT Disposes
Why the road away from the dollar will have many twists and turns.
Read more...The Russian Oil Price Cap Isn’t as Simple as It Seems
The harder your look at the Russian oil price cap, the uglier it looks.
Read more...A New Era for Germany’s Gas Industry Fuels Climate Fears
Moves to end energy dependence on Russia are a win for the gas lobby, locking Germany into the global market for liquefied natural gas.
Read more...Rich Nations Doubly Responsible for Greenhouse Gas Emissions
How the greenhouse gas emissions blame game pits advanced economies against developing ones.
Read more...New Global Estimates on Profits in Tax Havens Suggest the Tax Loss Continues to Rise
Quelle surprise! Despite EU and US initiatives to curb corporate use of tax havens, big companies continue to fatten their wallets.
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