Category Archives: Globalization

Satyajit Das: A Disordered World – Part 2: Susceptibilities

Satyajit Das continues his tour of the breakup of the world order, here focusing on financial/economic dislocations and dysfunctional elites

Slouching Towards Reverse Colonialism

How sanctions against Russia are achieving the polar opposite of what colonialism was all about: controlling and exploiting resources.

Sunak Has Been Set Up To Fail and the Likelihood Is That He Will

Rishi Sunak has a Mission Impossible even before getting to his bad impulses. Most countries in the West face the same long list of problems

Satyajit Das: A Disordered World – Part 1: Fracture

Satyajit Das provides a multi-facted overview of how key world structures are breaking as the US fights to preseve its imperial hold.

Diesel Crisis Deepens As Inventories Fall To Dangerous Levels

Diesel fuel is in scarcer supply than ever. Shortages coming?

NOPEC Bill Would Mean the End Of Aramco and OPEC as We Know Them

The US is seriously considering yet another self-destructive move: bringing the Saudis to heel via a frontal legal/sanctions attack on OPEC.

Central Bank Myths Drag Down World Economy

Central bank dogma over inflation is pushing the world economy into recession, with many dire consequences for poorer countries.

EU Imposes Secondary Sanctions on Russian Steel in Eighth Sanctions Package. Is Türkiye the Target?

the EU using an obscure steel secondary sanction to whack Türkiye?

Satyajit Das: The Financial Party Is Coming to an Abrupt End

There seems to be no escape from looming economic and financial problems, but the officialdom will do it best to delay the reckoning.

A Tale of Tier 3 Cities in China

The stock of real estate in China is now quite large for what is still a lower-middle-income country.

The Inevitable Financial Crisis

We’re again in the Wile E Coyote phase of a financial crisis, but this time, the real economy problems are far worse than in 2008.

Free Market Genocides: The Real History of Trade

How so-called free trade has often brought large scale death, sometimes by design.

Satyajit Das: Emerging Market Crisis Pathologies

Why emerging markets look set to suffer a world of hurt.

Russian Aviation Industry Corrects Yeltsin Yaw – Boeing, Airbus Ditched

Russia is moving ahead with aviation import substituion. In theory, this should be within Russis’s grasp. But what about timelines and costs?