Trade War: How Tensions Have Risen Between China, the EU and the US
A very useful recap of trade measures taken so far and potential impacts of various threats made by the US, China, and EU.
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Trump Willing to Give a China a Break on Sanctions Against ZTE Electronics. What Gives?
Trump again does what he seems to do best, the unexpected, with a Sunday tweet offering a break to sanctioned Chinese electronics maker ZTE. How does this fit into the US-China trade spat?
Read more...China’s Bid To Assist Assad In Syrian Reconstruction Is About Security and Profit
China sees a nation-building opportunity in Syria that the US won’t consider.
Read more...Michael Hudson: “Creating Wealth” Through Debt: The West’s Finance-Capitalist Road
Why debt is the great threat to modern China’s development.
Read more...China Warns Australia Against Being a Democracy
China throws its weight around even more casually than the US does, achieving the difficult task of making Trump look not so bad.
Read more...Raising Tariffs on China Without Grabbing Headlines
How Europe raised tariffs on more Chinese imports than Trump has threatened to.
Read more...The Hudson Report: Does Trump Know Anything About Trade?
Michael Hudson discusses Trump’s trade row with China.
Read more...Fast Fashion Juggernaut Rolls Along
The fast fashion cycle continues to accelerate, as sustainability concerns fall to the wayside. Algorithms are trotted out as a panacea for products that embed an offensive message.
Read more...Trade War or Not, China Risks a ‘Minsky Moment’
How China’s officials are trying to protect the county’s economic glass jaw.
Read more...Trump Ups the Ante in Trade Brinksmanship
Investors are rattled by Trump escalating his trade war threat with China.
Read more...Economists’ Dubious Relationship with Trade Policy: Comparative Advantage is a System that Works for the Wealthy
The great unwashed public has good reason to doubt what economists say about trade.
Read more...Why Not to Expect Much from US Trade Talks With China
Why the Trump trade threats towards China aren’t likely to be terribly productive.
Read more...Mr. Market Has a Hissy Fit Over Trump’s “Coming Soon” China Tariffs
How much of the upset over Trump’s planned China tariffs is warranted?
Read more...Economists Shocked That China Invalidates Their Pet View That Economic Liberalization Producers Political Liberalization
Another economic fantasy, that the trade liberalization promotes the spread of democracy, takes some hard knocks from China.
Read more...Waiting for the Chinese Bear Stearns
Why the Chinese shadow banking system is a possible source of systemic risk: a outstanding worry that has not gotten any better.
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