Category Archives: Globalization

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

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

New IMF Paper Challenges Neoliberal Orthodoxy

A new IMF paper takes on some neoliberal sacred cows.

Free Trade in Rhetoric, Not in Practice

The gap between the posturing and practice of free trade.

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.

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.

Wolf Richter: Which US Companies Stockpile the Most Profit “Overseas?” But Where the Heck is the Money?

ebunking the mythology of overseas “profit”.

Tax-Dodging Corporate Inversions Accelerating

New rules by the US Treasury to curb corporate inversions haven’t done enough to slow the rising tide.

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.

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.

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.

When Commodity Prices Fall

Decomposing the drivers and effects of commodity price swings.

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.

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.

“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.