Another Brexit Mess: “Grandfathering” Existing Free Trade Agreements Looks Unlikely
Another item on the Brexit problem list: what to do about free trade agreements that will cease to apply to the UK on Brexit day.
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A Transatlantic, Transpacific or Eurasian Global Economy?
Which nexus – Transatlantic, Transpacific or Eurasian– is likely to dominate global trade?
Read more...Financial Markets Have Taken Over the Economy. To Prevent Another Crisis, They Must Be Brought to Heel.
A detailed and well-argued explanation of how the growth in the role of financial markets has become destructive.
Read more...Government Shutdown Once Again Shows the Lies Behind Deficit Hysteria
How the wealthy use deficit scaremongering to keep wages down and stave off calls for more investment and social spending.
Read more...UK Asks the Rest of the World to Be Super Duper Nice and Act as Its Old Deals Are Still Valid Post Brexit
Yet another Brexit train wreck.
Read more...Protests in Tunisia Over IMF-Promoted Policies….for Good Reason
Why the IMF’s standard prescription is a poor fit for Tunisia.
Read more...PayPal Demonstrates What Happens to Former Tech Unicorns Which Get Lame
PayPal is no longer getting away with the sort of things it could as a payment processor newbie.
Read more...Why Australia’s Skilled Migration System Is Failing – Will the UK and US Take Note?
Why are skilled migrant programs not working all that well, in terms of employment outcomes?
Read more...Economies of States Versus Economies of Cities
Why are some cities doing better than the states they inhabit?
Read more...The Revenge of the Places That Don’t Matter
The idea that people are attached to the places where they live has been ignored by economists and politicians, to their peril.
Read more...Ilargi: Shithouses
How Trump’s widely deplored shithouses comment was an unintended, uncomfortable truth about US policy.
Read more...Trend Reversal of Old-Age Labour Force Participation in Germany
Why has workforce participation increased among older age groups in Germany? Follow the money.
Read more...Amazon, City Killer?
The unseemly bidding war to have the opportunity to have Amazon ruin your city moves to its finalist phase.
Read more...Wolf Richter: What Will Rising Mortgage Rates Do to Housing Bubble 2?
Rising mortgage rate are about to do some damage to the house party.
Read more...How Amazon’s Accounting Makes Rich People’s Income Invisible
How Amazon’s predatory non-profit model is a particularly potent form of rent extraction.
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