When Commodity Prices Fall
Decomposing the drivers and effects of commodity price swings.
Read more...Category Archives: Globalization
Nomi Prins: Gimme Shelter (From the Tax Man), Disappearing Money and Opportunistic Candidate
It should come as no surprise that none of the mainstream Presidential candidates stack up well on the issues of tax avoidance and evasion.
Read more...Lessons from Iceland, Where Offshore Created an Onshore Bubble Free of Rules and Regulations
In Iceland, the rapid growth of offshore, meaning tax evasion, along with harmful, even criminal, practices produced a massive boom and bust.
Read more...“Free Trade” in Trouble in the United States
“Free trade” policies, in a world of substantially liberalized trade, no longer elicit knee-jerk support. About time.
Read more...Greenpeace Leak Exposes Big EU-US Rifts, US Thuggishness, in TTIP “Trade” Negotiations
A leak of a major set of TTIP documents may throw a spanner in the works of a deal that is already contested in the US and EU.
Read more...A Simple “Trade” Solution to Boost Workers Across the Planet
There’s a progressive way to approach global trade that can help workers abroad and at home at the same time.
Read more...Trade Costs of Border Controls in the Schengen Area
Granular analysis of the cost of imposing border controls along refugee routes versus ending the Schengen system, as well as who has the most to lose.
Read more...Don Quijones: A Blow to Transatlantic Corpocracy – Support for TTIP Begins to Unravel
Why the TTIP “trade” deal is looking wobbly.
Read more...Tom Engelhardt: Donald Trump – Campaigning on America’s Decline
Trump’s campaign is proof of America’s decline….but not in the way you think.
Read more...#panamapapers: Questioning the Picture Painted in the WSJ’s Interview With Jürgen Mossack
A sceptical look at Jürgen Mossack’s WSJ interview
Read more...Don Quijones: Colombia Pays the Steep Cost of So-Called “Free” Trade
Colombia demonstrates the cost of being subject to investors lawsuits under “trade” deals.
Read more...Treasury Implements New Rules Aimed at Inversions, Other Tax Strategies, Scuttling Pfizer-Allergan Deal and Evoking Howls from Pharma
Mirabile dictu! Treasury took surprisingly bold action to stymie corporate inversions and some other types of multi-national tax gaming. What gives?
Read more...#panamapapers – Why Critic Craig Murray Needs the Scorecard Before He Can Name The Players
Craig Murray keeps jumping the gun with his panamapapers pieces
Read more...How Much Has Global Economic Power Really Shifted?
Why the shift in economic power from advanced to developing economies has not gone as far as most accounts would have you believe.
Read more...New Zealand Foreign Trusts and the Unaoil Scandal: More Chickens Coming Home to Roost, and They’re Big
First a political fracas in Malta, now a giant international bribery scandal: New Zealand Foreign Trusts cover themselves in more glory
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