America is Regressing into a Developing Nation for Most People
Like developing countries, America is becoming more stratified, with the economic and physical distance between rich and poor widening.
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Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) Suits Become Favored Hedge Fund Investment
ISDS suits are increasingly getting financial backing from speculators like hedge funds.
Read more...Mexico’s Economy Is Being Plundered Dry
Some vignettes of Mexico as a failed state.
Read more...More Brexit Miscalculations: UK Can Have Industrial Policy Only With Hard Brexit
The UK government wants industrial policy reforms that are incompatible with EU rules. Those rules would apply save in a hard Brexit.
Read more...The Brexit Situation is Developing Not Necessarily to the UK’s Advantage
We’ve been neglecting Brexit due to Trump going uber hawkish and the resulting barrage of news stories to sort through. And another reason is that the noise to signal ratio got even higher in the British media around the time Brexit became official. Formal progress will be virtually nil till late May. The UK and […]
Read more...Globalization and the End of the Labor Aristocracy, Part 2
How the the new international economic architecture for trade, investment, & property rights hurt workers in advanced and developing economies
Read more...Faster Fashion Cycle Accelerates
Sustainable fashion initiatives face huge obstacles in displacing fast fashion’s popularity, despite fair labor and environmental concerns.
Read more...The Clean Carbon Bad Joke
How viable are “cleaner” coal technologies? And can carbon sequestration save the day?
Read more...Globalization and the End of the Labor Aristocracy, Part 1
How labor benefitted from imperialism, and how its advantages were eroded as multinationals became important as international enforcers.
Read more...The Global Industrial Working Class
Why industrial workers are better positioned than most observers think…just not in the US and many other Northern Hemisphere countries.
Read more...How Common Ownership is One Route to Social Transformation
Can changes in ownership rules tame the bad features of capitalism?
Read more...Mainstream, Pro-EU Rutte’s VVD Beats Populist, Anti-Immigration Wilders in Dutch Election
Far right winger Geert Wilders fails to cinch a win for his party in the Dutch election, contrary to polling in recent months.
Read more...Debunking 5 Myths About Frexit
A skeptical look a Frexit, meaning France exiting the Eurozone.
Read more...Brexit: More on the UK’s Weak Hand
Yet more debunking of pro-Brexit fantasies.
Read more...NAFTA in Play: How President Trump Could Reshape Trade in North America
Some likely scenarios for US negotiations over NAFTA, and what they would mean for the US, Mexico, and Canada.
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