LEAKED: Trump Threatens to Launch Trade War v. Rattled China Over IP Theft
Trump’s trade threats against China make steel and aluminum tariffs look like a game.
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Trump’s Tariff Threat to Kick Off Trade War?
Trump is threatening to kick off a trade slugfest via tariffs on steel and aluminum. Will he follow through?
Read more...Dire Consequences of Ignoring Trade in Climate Change Targets: On Track to 3.5 C Temperature Increase by 2100
Astonishingly, climate change accords like Kyoto and Paris ignore the impact of trade. That omission means our collective goose is cooked.
Read more...Davos: Alive or Dead?
Politicians and economists are meeting at Davos, but as times change, does neoliberalism retain its cachet?
Read more...The Chinese Banking System: Much More Than a Domestic Giant
Chinese banks have become major foreign lenders, making China the eighth biggest financial center in the world.
Read more...Trump’s China Policies Are Working a Treat
Trump’s trash talk re China looks have led China to have allowed the yuan to rise. Will that be enough to improve its US trade balance?
Read more...China: The Aging Dragon
The weight of the policies from previous decades hangs over China as it attempts to confront an upcoming demographic crisis
Read more...China Fails to Woo U.S. With Financial Sector Opening
Why is the US cool about concessions from China that the US has long sought?
Read more...Bitcoin -> Energy Use -> Pollution
Bitcoin uses a computation system to prevent fraud, but computation takes energy, which damages the environment, all at an increasing rate.
Read more...Trump’s “$250 Billion” of China Trade Deals: As Usual, Hype Greatly Exceeds Reality
Trump’s much ballyhooed China trade deal gives way less than meets the eye.
Read more...Michael Hudson: Socialism, Land and Banking: 2017 Compared to 1917
Why did socialism lose out in the 20th century to rentiers promoting neoliberalism?
Read more...Fast Fashion: Magical Shift in Consumption Patterns Will Save the Planet?
Forbes thinks that emerging markets consumers might save the planet from fast fashion folly. Ahem. I’m not so sure.
Read more...North Korea: Are Sanctions Working?
Experts have said a military response North Korea’s belligerence is not viable. Is the current economic approach likely to succeed?
Read more...Steve Bannon v. Blinkered Economists on “Free Trade”
Macroeconomists are making Steve Bannon look good.
Read more...G20 Climate Commitments and China’s One Belt One Road
A critical look at some wishful thinking about climate change and China’s One Belt One Road initiative.
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