Mathew D. Rose: Brexit – The End of the Universe
Germany is determined to teach the UK a costly lesson if it dares to defy its hegemony via a Brexit.
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Need a Loan in China? Hand Over a Nude Photo
Lender demands in China as a sign of credit stress.
Read more...Global Money: A Work in Progress
Bagehot outlined some of the requirements for global money. Are we closer to a solution?
Read more...Why a Leave Vote May Not Result in a Brexit
The ruling classes in the UK will be highly motivated to try to get the Brexit genie back in the bottle.
Read more...New Zealand: Kea Street Cred and US$1Bn Promise Lures Kiwi to Front Very Peculiar Financial Service Providers
Another duo of wildly offbeat New Zealand Financial Services Providers
Read more...New Zealand: Icon Sachs (Whatever That is), Fennas Finance, a Bank Account at an ANZ Napier Branch, a Conspiracy Theorist And a Ponzi Scheme
Yet more strange sightings in the New Zealand Register of Companies
Read more...New IMF Paper Challenges Neoliberal Orthodoxy
A new IMF paper takes on some neoliberal sacred cows.
Read more...Free Trade in Rhetoric, Not in Practice
The gap between the posturing and practice of free trade.
Read more...The New Abnormal: “Disequilibrium Flirting with Deflationary Depression”
The New Abnormal: a period of profound disequilibrium as the aftershocks of the Crisis collide with and complicate structural changes.
Read more...After Distancing Herself From Bill Clinton’s Economic Policies, Hillary Wants Him as Mr. Economic Fix It
Like the Bourbons, the Clintons appear to have learned nothing and forgotten nothing.
Read more...Wolf Richter: Which US Companies Stockpile the Most Profit “Overseas?” But Where the Heck is the Money?
ebunking the mythology of overseas “profit”.
Read more...Tax-Dodging Corporate Inversions Accelerating
New rules by the US Treasury to curb corporate inversions haven’t done enough to slow the rising tide.
Read more...Michael Hudson: Warning to Europe – How the TTIP Threatens Public Health Care and Pensions
Why the TTIP poses a wide-ranging threat to European health and pension policies.
Read more...Noam Chomsky: American Power Under Pressure
Seeing states as the vehicle for projecting power is dated, particularly as far as understanding America’s position is concerned.
Read more...TTIP: We Were Right All Along
The European Commission’s claim that the TTIP is aimed at ‘help[ing] people and businesses large and small” is shown to be a flagrant falsehood.
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