A large scale survey in six countries found that respondents typically had inaccurate ideas about the level of immigration, but thinking about migrants made them less supportive of redistribution policies.
Read more...More on how the Brexit situation is developing not necessarily to the UK’s advantage.
Read more...Why he future of the EU social democratic parties very likely depends on how the PSOE will address the migration issue.
Read more...Believe it or not, many top Chinese officials are impressed with Trump’s game so far.
Read more...Brexit uglies are only getting uglier.
Read more...A measure to clean up maritime fuel oil could cause havoc for oil prices generally.
Read more...My visit last week to Portland was more exciting, in the good and bad sense, than I expected it to be.
Read more...Profit shifting is a key driver of the decline in global average statutory corporate tax rate, which has fallen by more than half
Read more...Is extreme antiglobalism the doctrine that undergirds many of Trump’s actions?
Read more...Tariffs misfire yet again.
Read more...Economic migrants seek prosperity and are justified in doing so, yet they can also be seen as pawns in an international strategy that destroys the negotiating leverage of workers. The resulting contradictions potentially render conventional political classifications obsolete.
Read more...How to impose trade rules that will bring jobs back to the US in a much more surgical manner than a costly and potentially self-defeating trade wars.
Read more...Will the Trump tariffs lead to a rollback of globalization? And if so, what might it look like?
Read more...Tourism in Spain accounted for a quarter of the jobs created since 2013 — but mass-tourism of this type brings its own problems.
Read more...Leftout podcast of The Hudson Report, with Michael Hudson, discussing the award to Argentina of the biggest loan in the IMF’s history (includes transcript).
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