A secret corporate arbitration panel in the Hague ruled that Ecuadorean courts’ $9.5 billion judgement against Chevron for environmental damages is illegal and should not be enforced. An expert argues that the decision is a travesty.
Read more...Has anything changed on the Brexit front?
Read more...Hay has become a scarce resource in Australia, and not for the best reasons.
Read more...Rising bond yields pose a problem to Tesla’s survival.
Read more...Life along Woonsquatucket, and what “a screw loose” really means.
Read more...Turkey is entering a major crisis, which many of the media have been quick to blame on Erdogan’s nationalist inclinations. However, the crisis has much more to do with poor economic fundamentals and the lending decisions of European banks.
Read more...How a new “great” Trump trade deal is just recycled old trade deals with a new label.
Read more...In the Brexit referendum, UK citizens were pleading through their vote – and non-vote – for a fair shot at the future.
Read more...How French ports and hence France look set to lose in Brexit.
Read more...Which countries fit criteria that would lead them to be classified as empires?
Read more...A short overview of some protectionism successes.
Read more...Climate change, aging cars, signals, and tunnels, plus looting by the political class and the bankers.
Read more...How the evolution of the rise in inequality in the US has dominated and distorted economists’ and pundits’ commentary; data show that some pet generalizations don’t hold up.
Read more...Why on current trajectories, China (and the US) are toast.
Read more...Are Millennials ruining the Empire?
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