Cringley: How Silicon Valley Can Sidestep Trump H-1B Visa Restrictions
Why restrictions on H-1B visas may not do much for tech workers.
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There Is No “Independent” Foreign Policy Choice for Australia
In the absence of that countervailing force, then, if we elect to turn away from the US and ANZUS then what we are most likely going to achieve is to accelerate the rise of a new imperial order.
Read more...Don’t Side With Neoliberalism in Opposing Trump
If you side with neoliberalism in opposing Trump, you risk helping him win a second term in office.
Read more...“The End of Employees”
Why business expect to have even fewer employees.
Read more...Border Adjustment Tax Could Help Europe Find Common Voice on Trump
Europeans mull retaliation if Trump moves forward with his border adjustment tax.
Read more...How Colonialism Shaped Modern Inequality
How European colonialism played a major role in the massive economic inequality we see today.
Read more...Fast Fashion: A Few Thoughts Sparked by Recent News
Fast fashion is flourishing in the US, despite problematic labor practices and the considerable environmental costs it generates.
Read more...Trumping Capitalism?
Will Trump change capitalism, and if so, how?
Read more...Trade War Threat Grows
Will Trump bumble his way into a trade war?
Read more...Brexit: Why Rescue by Trump, Meaning Via a US-UK Trade Deal, Is a Fantasy
Just because Trump gets on with Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage does not mean that a trade pact with the US will be a salvation for the UK.
Read more...Consternation as Trump Starts Delivering on Campaign Promises While Making More Crazy Attacks on Critics
As with his campaign, the Trump Presidency is loutish, thin-skinned and thinly staffed, disorderly….and taking ground.
Read more...Compensating the “Losers” of Globalization
There is little agreement on how government should respond to the challenge posed by “losers” from globalization.
Read more...The Fed in an Age of Uncertainty
How uncertainty over the wisdom of the Fed starting to tighten in 2017 and its reading of Trump policies might impact other economies.
Read more...How To Balance Sovereignty and Integration in a Voluntary EU
Why is the EU project in trouble and what might be done to fix it?
Read more...Does Immigration Boost Growth? A Look at Data From Around the World
Comparative data on immigration doesn’t support the tidy economists’ story that it good for growth…at least not recently.
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