Brexit Denialism: The Customs/Border Problem and the Curious Case of the Pallets
A case study of how basic, critically important Brexit issues like customs are being ignored by the Government, to the peril of the public.
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Europe’s Globalists Tackle the Immigration Class War
As immigration becomes a political flash point, even hard core neoliberals like Emmanuel Macron are advocating restrictions.
Read more...Big Business Dominates Brexit Negotiations
Nick Dearden discusses how Brexit ministers in the UK had six corporate lobby meetings for every one meeting with civil society groups.
Read more...Global Banks Sabotage Uruguay’s Efforts to Legalize Marijuana
A state-owned bank of a sovereign nation just decided to put draconian US legislation before a law adopted by the Uruguayan parliament.
Read more...Brexit Makes Labour Exploitation More Likely in the UK
Negotiations on a future Brexit deal have barely started, yet EU workers across the UK are already finding themselves more vulnerable.
Read more...Will Big Data Eat Hollywood’s Lunch?
Hollywood relies ever more heavily on repetitive content.
Will firms like Netflix, Facebook, Amazon, and Google swallow it whole?
“How to Run a Cheap Foreign Labor Economic Model”
An illustration of how the debate on globalization too often, mistakenly, fixates on labor costs as a driver of “competitiveness”.
Read more...Steve Bannon v. Blinkered Economists on “Free Trade”
Macroeconomists are making Steve Bannon look good.
Read more...G20 Climate Commitments and China’s One Belt One Road
A critical look at some wishful thinking about climate change and China’s One Belt One Road initiative.
Read more...After Neoliberalism, What Next?
The neoliberal order has failed and is creating more and more political and social upheaval. Some elements of a new system may be in sight.
Read more...Trump as “Consequence, Not Cause” of the Collapse in the Post Cold War Consensus
How press and pundit fixation on Trump diverts public attention from power structures that work against ordinary Americans.
Read more...Renegotiating NAFTA: The Role of Global Supply Chains
Unfortunately, redoing NAFTA in a way that benefits US workers is not a trivial task.
Read more...The Two Capitalisms: Electric Batteries as a Case Study in US Magical Thinking vs. Chinese Vertical Integration
Electric vehicle batteries illustrate how the Chinese use control of raw materials and end markets to built vertically integrated industries.
Read more...Lack of Hope in America: The High Costs of Being Poor in a Rich Land
Tying the loss of economic mobility to the loss of hope and personal despair.
Read more...Food, the UK and Brexit: An Even Messier Reprise of Corn Laws Politics?
Surprisingly, or maybe not so, food is emerging as a flash point in Brexit politics.
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