China’s trend rates of growth are likely to be much lower than in the past, and even that is problematic. China will remain an important Asian player, not a dominant global force.
Read more...Don’t trust business listings in Google Maps. They’re can be fraudulent, even dangerous.
Read more...Richard Vague extends his work on the dangers of private debt via his new book, A Brief History of Doom, on the role of debt in financial crises.
Read more...Why a widely-held view about productivity that is foundational to the claim that people are paid what they deserve does not hold up to scrutiny.
Read more...The government says it’s preparing for a Brexit crash out. But ten years of spending cuts have made the people of Britain intensely vulnerable to economic shock.
Read more...More evidence of how manufacturing workers have taken it on the chin.
Read more...This Real News Network interview with Diana Ruiz of Greenpeace covers yet another dangerous effect of global warming: soil degradation and its knock-on effects.
Read more...Why the sanctions on Venezuela aren’t all they are cracked up to be.
Read more...US business will asset-strip the UK, but that’s not all: the Pentagon will find the little-known fragments of the British empire very useful.
Read more...A dubious proposal to continue over-reliance on monetary policy, this time with a quantitative easing scheme, instead of fiscal spending.
Read more...Should you worry about the biggest fall in semiconductor sales since the Financial Crisis?
Read more...Markets are in a tizzy over the US-China trade row. But what might come next?
Read more...Mark Blyth gives a pithy talk on the economic regimes of the modern period and what is likely to be in store.
Read more...Now, after nearly half a century, the verdict on neoliberalism is in.
Read more...Young people with pretty high incomes are sinking under debt.
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