Brexit: Wheels Coming Off
Brexit pains are becoming more and more evident.
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Right to Repair: Saves Consumers Money, Promotes Local Jobs Rather than Global Supply Chains
U.S. PIRG resport says adopting broad right to repair provisions would save U.S. housholds money and promote local employment.
Read more...The Economic Impact of Ancient Colonisation
How ancient colonizers left an enduring economic footprint, even at the local level.
Read more...2021: Year of Living Dangerously?
Does the West recognize how many emerging economies are dangerously close to breaking points? Can they control their bad neoliberal reflexes?
Read more...Disruption of Seaborne Trade in South East Asia: A Quantitative Analysis
Restrictions to shipping due to military sanctions could have large negative effects on economic welfare for countries all over the world, including oil exporters such as the UAE and Saudi Arabia
Read more...Quick Notes on the Brexit Deal
Brexit: an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is.
Read more...UK’s Covid and Brexit Siege
Fog on the Covid and Brexit fronts.
Read more...Brexit Event Horizon and Covid Mutation Deliver Lumps of Coal to UK for Christmas
“It’s always darkest before things go completely black.” That looks like a fit for Brexit.
Read more...New Hope for Coral Restoration with “Electric Reefs”?
Can we mobilize to restore coral reefs using “mineral accretion technology” to mobilize, now that patents no longer restrict its use?
Read more...How President Biden Can Fix our Trade Problem
Trump’s approach to trade largely failed because the problem can’t be solved by tariffs. Here’s the answer.
Read more...Why We Need to Adopt Friedrich Engels’ Thinking on Science in These Times
Friedrich Engels work on working class included describing how capitalists would not contrain their environmental damage.
Read more...China Retrenches on Belt and Road Initiative as Defaults Rise
More on “Whither China?”
Read more...Brexit: Too Late for Fudge?
The options for extending the Brexit runway don’t look promising.
Read more...It’s Time to Break Up Britain
The Tories’ shambolic, self-serving rule has stoked interest in Britain breakaways by Scotland and even Wales and the North. But are they viable?
Read more...Brexit Chaos Was Entirely Predictable Because the World Works on Routine, and Brexit Breaks All the Routine Systems on Which Trade Has Relied
Brexit disruption has started even with a skimpy deal still theoretically possible.
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