A new salvo against designated enemies, aka Palestinian rights advocates, which fortunately is more bark than bite.
Read more...There is perilous little that is novel in modern finance. Our offshore, as in tax havens, have analogues in the ancient world.
Read more...The UK has low-lying terrain that has nevertheless been developed and will go underwater with climate change and take a lot of banks with it.
Read more...An assessment of how far BRICS has gotten in creating new monetary arrangements and institutions. The short version is “not very”.
Read more...How blockchain/crypto tax havens are displacing traditional tax havens.
Read more...Commercial financial flows to the forest-risk commodity sectors are driving the majority of tropical deforestation and biodiversity loss.
Read more...The US housing market is stalled, yet Biden fans insist that, economy-wise, we live in the best of all possible worlds.
Read more...How China’s local government financing vehicles (LGFVs) became China’s most complex economic challenge.
Read more...On a relative basis, China is more financialized than the US which is not a pretty picture.
Read more...Tax havens not only facilitate tax evasion and corruption in ‘normal times’, they also harbour funds during economic crises, slowing down recovery.
Read more...Michael Hudson in a bracing talk, including history of crises, the role of debt, and how ancient Greek and Roman law promoted inequality
Read more...The ongoing drama between Budapest and Brussels over Ukraine and the “rule of law” is really about who gets to control Hungary.
Read more...An in-depth yet lively debunking by Richard Wolff and Michael Hudson of Panglossian depictions of the state of the US economy and society.
Read more...Radhika Desai and Michael Husdon provide a data-driven discussion of the inflating and detonation of debt bombs during the neoliberal era.
Read more...US bank pain: Loans for urban office buildings come a cropper as they were already suffering other interest rate losses.
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