Category Archives: Globalization

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.

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.

Don Quijones: A Blow to Transatlantic Corpocracy – Support for TTIP Begins to Unravel

Why the TTIP “trade” deal is looking wobbly.

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.

#panamapapers: Questioning the Picture Painted in the WSJ’s Interview With Jürgen Mossack

A sceptical look at Jürgen Mossack’s WSJ interview

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.

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?

#panamapapers – Why Critic Craig Murray Needs the Scorecard Before He Can Name The Players

Craig Murray keeps jumping the gun with his panamapapers pieces

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.

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

Marshall Auerback: Donald Trump Understands the Nexus Between Trade and Immigration

By linking immigration and trade, however crudely, Trump has exposed the broader paradox and inherent contradictions which lurk between the two.

Brexit: This is What We Call a Muppet Show

An update on the Brexit referendum.

Thomas Frank: How Democrats Created Liberalism of the Rich

Make no mistake; the Democrats engineered the Third Way faux liberalism that sold out the working classes to benefit the rich and their minions.

Wolf Richter: World Trade Collapses in Dollars, Languishes in Volume

A rout in world trade that started in June 2014 shows no sign of getting better.

Don Quijones: Brexit Meltdown at the Bank of England

The current and former governors of the Bank of England are singing from very different hymnals on the subject of Brexit.