COVID-19 Impact on the Fashion Industry: Slow Down
The pace of the wasteful fashion industry will slow as we learn to cope with COVID-19. Will sustainability become more than a buzzword?
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Yes, You Can Drink the Water: Clean and Safe Public Water Supplies. Microplastics, A Plea for a Modest Post Coronavirus Priority
Leaders of countries should consider what they must do to ensure we can drink the water in a world after we have learned to cope with coronavirus.
Read more...Brexit: Posturing and Impasse
More Brexit chest-thumping.
Read more...Covid-19 Straw Breaks Free Trade Camel’s Back
Multilateral trade negotiations under WTO auspices have gone nowhere since the late 1990s,, and COVID-19 may be the final straw.
Read more...Exclusive: Countries To Face a ‘Wave’ of Corporate Lawsuits Challenging Emergency COVID-19 Measures
Will Covid-19 trigger reprehensible investor-state dispute settlement suits?
Read more...Brexit: Yet More Chicken
The same bad Brexit dynamics are very much in place.
Read more...Neoliberalism Is Over. Welcome to the Era of Neo-Illiberalism!
Big tech, nationalist politics, and the billionaire class have propelled a novel political economy. What impact will the virus have on this new status quo?
Read more...The False Dawn of Ending Coronavirus Lockdowns
It would be nice if relaxing the lockdowns would solve a problem, any problem….
Read more...Public Health and Private Profits Under COVID-19 Pandemic
More discussion of how the private sector is undermining responses to Covid-19.
Read more...Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton With Michael Hudson: How The US Makes Countries Pay For Its Wars – Economics Of American Imperialism
Economist Michael Hudson explains how American imperialism has created a global free lunch, where the US makes foreign countries pay for its wars, and even their own occupation.
Read more...Coronavirus-Induced Food Supply Disruptions Hitting Farmers, Poor Consumers
Food scarcity is already starting to bite in the US and is likely to become a serious problem in much of the world.
Read more...Become a Manufacturing Powerhouse in 2020—An Economic Recipe for Our Times
On bringing manufacturing back home.
Read more...The Coronavirus New Normal Has Only Started To Arrive
Why we aren’t even at the end of the beginning of coronavirus-induced change.
Read more...Taleb: The Only Man Who Has A Clue
A recap of what Taleb and his fellow complex systems analysts have been saying about coronavirus. Not pretty.
Read more...The New Fault Lines in a Post-Globalized World
Coronavirus is smashing up the economic and political order. What sort of world comes next?
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