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G20: You Can Smell Tear Gas in the Streets as the Oil Industry Squabbles

What the G20 and OPEC meetings mean for the political relations, economies, and people of the world.

An MMT View of “Twin Deficits”: Budget and Current Account Deficits

Why the worries about the US budget deficit and China buying Treasuries are overblown.

Stationary Bandits, State Capacity, and the Malthusian Transition: The Lasting Impact of the Taiping Rebellion

Lambert here: Makes our own Civil War look like a blip. However, at least some of the conclusions seem to be borne out for our Civil War, too: Increase in state capacity, for example. By Lixin Colin Xu, Lead Economist, Development Research Group, World Bank, and Li Yang, Postdoc, Paris School of Economics. Originally published […]

The Rapid Acceleration Towards Peak Oil Demand

A rare bit of positive news on the global warming front: oil demand topped out in developed economies and emerging economies are increasingly fighting both internal combustion engines and single use plastics.

Marshall Auerback: So Far, the Big Trade War Loser Is China, Not the U.S.

China has more of a glass jaw than most economics commentators thought. But how is Trump’s trade war likely to progress?

US Stops Trade Talks With China: Posturing or Impasse?

The US and China are even more visibly at odds than usual.

Markets Edgy Over China, Italy Budget Staredown, Saudis, Brexit, Too Much Private Debt, Strained Valuations….

Markets have more reason than usual to be jumpy.

Plastic Watch: Recycling Woes

Although recycling is far from a viable solution to the world’s plastic problem, even these inadequate efforts are lacking, as press accounts from last week of corruption in the UK recycling industry, and Japan’s lag in implementing even the limited plastic reduction measures undertaken elsewhere reveal.