International Trade and Globalization: Are Benefits Truly Mutual?
Questioning economic orthodoxies on trade.
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Selling Out Argentina’s Future—Again
How Argentina’s new neoliberal masters are driving the economy back into its old debt crisis ditch.
Read more...The Year in Money
A review of money issues…and mainly not bitcoin.
Read more...Exposure to Brexit in Regions on Both Sides of the Channel
A granular analysis of which regions will lose most from Brexit.
Read more...EU’s Michel Barnier Clears Throat to Tell the UK It Won’t Get a Special Deal…After God Knows How Many EU Leaders Have Already Said That
The EU is still making a lot of noise to get the UK to begin to hear things the EU has been saying since the morning after the Brexit vote.
Read more...Tech Giants Trying to Use WTO to Colonize Emerging Economies
Tech titans like Google and Apple seek to create a “global” regime to prevent developing economies from protecting their companies or data.
Read more...David Davis Points Out Brexit “Breakthrough” Isn’t Binding as Draft European Council Statement Tightens the Screws
More discussion of the overhyped Brexit “breakthrough” of last Friday.
Read more...DUP Humiliates May, Extends Freeze on Talks as Hard Core Brexiters Fume
Brexit talks are at a complete impasse. That is probably a good thing.
Read more...Eastern Europe Showed How Neoliberalism Produces Reactionary Populism, Like Trump
Trump’s antecedents in Eastern Europe show how widening inequality and failed economic promises pave the way for reactionary politics.
Read more...Germany’s Dystopian Plans for Europe: From Fantasy to Reality?
For Germany, the idea of Europeanism has allowed its elites to conceal their hegemonic project behind the veil of ‘European integration’.
Read more...Brexit’s Irish Checkmate
Brexit talks and Theresa May are in serious trouble.
Read more...Tax Cuts, Wages and Salaries: Will Lower Taxes and Profit Repatriation Help Workers?
Debunking some of the claims of tax “reform” proponents, like that giving companies a tax break to repatriate profits will create jobs.
Read more...UK Press Making Optimistic Noises re Big Brexit Hurdle: Breakthrough or Headfake?
Today is the day of a big Brexit deadline. But don’t get your hopes up.
Read more...Global Value Chains, Trade Shocks and Jobs: An Application to Brexit
A conservative analysis, incorporating the impact on value chains, estimates the UK will face a 4.7% GDP fall in a hard Brexit scenario.
Read more...Theresa May Capitulates on Brexit Settlement, Agrees to Pay Full Liabilities; What Will Brexit Ultras Do?
The UK finally concedes to reality on one issue. But will it make enough progress on other matters to get EU approval to talk trade?
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